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Kevin Russ | His Tumblr

Kevin Russ, a photographer from Portland, captures the feeling of the american landscape. Being far from cliche his work reinvents the classical motives of early twentieth century painters and explores the subtle dialog between the constant and still environment and a moving trains, cars or animals. 

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Candy Chang - I Wish This Was (2010)

“I Wish This Was was inspired by vacant storefronts. There are many where Candy lives in New Orleans. There are also many people who need and want things. Who knows a place better than the people who live and work there? We know what businesses and services we need, and we know what would make our neighborhoods more ours. What if we could easily voice what we want, where we want it?

As an experiment, Candy created fill-in-the-blank stickers that say ‘I wish this was ____.’ She placed boxes of free stickers in businesses around the city and posted grids of blank stickers and a permanent marker on vacant storefronts, so anyone walking by could fill one out. Responses ranged from the functional to the poetic, reflecting the hopes, dreams, and colorful imaginations of different neighborhoods.”

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Ramona Ring

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Ben Smith’s Whimsical “Flux” Painting Series

by Nastia VoynovskayaPosted on July 1, 2014

Australian artist Ben Smith’s take on portraiture is loose and impressionistic, adhering to the classical tradition of figure painting. Yet his latest series, titled “Flux,” pops with candy-colored hues — the artificial colors that bleed into our lives by way of mass-produced products and media. The teals and violets add a playful quality to the work, accentuated by the surreal creatures he introduces into his whimsical scenarios. A miniature albino lion in one piece looks like it would make for an excellent viral pet video if it were a real animal; in another painting, a two-headed horse presents a perplexing and ultimately disturbing anatomical riddle. Tying together various threads in the world around him, Smith creates imaginative vignettes that engage the senses.

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Ling Jian.

These portraits by Ling Jian are meant to be critiques on Chinese history and cultural influences on contemporary Chinese ideals and presented together they do form a bizarre definition:

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