NHARO: Home to Indigenous Art (Www.Nharo.com)

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I was on the Danforth (543 Danforth Ave) in Toronto earlier today and I came across a gem in the city that sells Indigenous Art from all across Africa, with a uniqueness to specific cultures that they trade with exclusively for items that you wouldn't typically find in a store of similar fashion. NHARO just seemed to carry items that were crafted, carved and woven by master artisans, and the quality spoke to me.



The customer service was phenomenal (her name was Irene) she was extremely friendly and rendered historical information about the pieces, there qualities and materials, I was impressed and enlightened about what I was buying.

You walk in and immediately you see this mother and child.



You step in and your eyes dart around the place, the art is phenomenal.



Almost Life Like Quality







The piece that interested me was a piece carved by the Shona of Zimbabwe, more specifically carved by an artisan named Gabriel Tigere Tandi of Zimbabwe, its made of Serpentine stone. She's made in the likeness of a Zulu Warrior, her head dress conveys a status. The material is a very hard stone that's confirmed to come from a 6 million year old quarry of mountain stone. It's absolutely phenomenal!





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Artist Elihu Vedder: One of the greatest "symbolist painters"

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Elihu Vedder (February 26, 1836 – January 29, 1923)

I make it a point to study the work of many artists, and eventhough I am a novice in the field of art and design I couldn't help but be in awe of the featured artist I'm blogging about today...Elihu Vedder.

An American symbolist painter, book illustrator, born in New York City.

He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which is considered a marvelous and masterful piece of work. It is said that he was influenced by the work of English and Irish mystics such as William Blake and William Butler Yeats. Vedder was trained under masters like Tompkins H. Matteson in New York, then in Paris with François-Édouard Picot. Finally, he completed his studies in Italy - where he was strongly influenced not only by Italian Renaissance work but also by the modern Macchiaioli painters and the living Italian landscape.

Tiffany and Co commissioned him to design glassware, mosaics and statuettes for the company. He decorated the hallway of the Reading Room of the Washington Library of Congress, and his mural paintings can still be seen there. In 2008, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington organized an exhibition of Vedder's Rubaiyat illustrations that toured several museums, invluding the Phoenix Art Museum.





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Portrait of Michael Jackson as Michelangelo’s statue of David

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In a 1999 painting he commissioned, Michael Jackson strikes the same pose as Michelangelo’s statue of David with rippling abs, bulging pecs and smooth, marble-white skin — surrounded by a bevy of male cherubs.

The work, by artist David Nordahl, is just one of hundreds of private portraits the Gloved One ordered up over the years that depict him in an idealized light. They were revealed last week in a book about Jackson’s life.

Art and Design: Picasso’s Guernica in 3D

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Conceptual Artists: Balazs Papay and Fabricio Duque - it's imagination on another level

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Balazs Papay


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Fabricio Duque

Designer Adam Spizak: 37 Vibrant and Colorful Graphics

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Adam Spizak is a graphic designer and CG artist from London, UK. Adam begun the adventure with computer graphics in 1997 with the amiga computer and big impression of amiga’s art scene. Since then, he has become one of the influential minds in the field of graphic design. His use of vivid colors, contrast, and creative concepts has made him a unique and inspiring designer.

Today, it is my pleasure to feature 37 vibrant and colorful graphic designs by Adam, which will hopefully inspire you and keep you motivated in your own graphic design endeavors. Adam’s work is breathtaking, colorful, and above all, creative, so I know you’ll enjoy these designs. Be sure to check out all of Adam’s work on his website.

Finnish photographer: Markku Lahdesmaki

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An interesting selection from Finnish photographer Markku Lahdesmak. The photographs are available via his portfolio at the link above. His art makes a vivid impression and I thought I'd share a few of my favorite pictures.

Chinese artist Liu Bolin: Blending in with his surroundings

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This is a picture of Chinese artist Liu Bolin and an assistant demonstrating his incredible skill in blending in with his surroundings. Can you see him? Me neither.

He claims they make a statement about his place in society. He sees himself as an outsider whose artistic efforts are not always valued, especially in his native country. Standing silently in front of his chosen scene, in locations all around the world, the 36-year-old uses himself as a blank canvas.

Then, with a little help from an assistant, he paints his body to merge as seamlessly as possible with what is behind him.

ART: by Andrew Gonzalez

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Artist - Mark Andrew Webber: Paris Map Linocut

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The Artist - Mark Andrew Webber says: "I have been working on a city map series of Linocuts, This is the latest in the series. The carving took 2 months of daily work, and the design took 4 months." I personally thought this to be cool and had to post it up on my blog so yall could see it.

Animation by Jeroen Krielaars: explains the Space-Time Continuum, "The chronoverse"

This is an animation that tells the story of ‘The Chronoverse’, a new perception of time. During ancient history, the earth was presumed to be flat. Later, astrologists discovered the spherical shape of the planet.



This radical new concept required such a new way of thinking, that it was incomprehensible for the majority of the human population. A same degree of perceptual shift occurred during the discovery of the chronoverse. Until now, mankind knew only one past, one present and one future. Past, which consists of nothing more than a log of occurred events stored in the human brain, called memories. Present, a constant flowing point in time, separating past from future. And future, a mere collection of expectations and assumptions. All three sorted along one horizontal axis. During research on the behavior of colliding particles, scientist stumbled upon the existence of multiple points in time, occupying the same physical space.

This led to an entirely new concept of time, called the chronoverse.
Events could no longer be indexed along a single axis. To index events in this new time-concept, a Y and a Z axis were added to convert the traditional timeline into a 3 dimensional timegrid. Common ways of displaying time became obsolete. From that year on, time would be indicated with a coordinate, pinpointing an event along the three axes in the grid.

Photography by: Simón Pais Thomas

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