Caratoes: International StreetArt Vagabond

Caratoes (BE/HK) 
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   An international street art vagabond, Caratoes beautifies walls & lives with her elevated artistic style as she trots around the globe. Mashing Surrealism, Cubism & Expressionism in a Feminist food processor, she serves up a signature flavor which unmistakably, Caratoes. 

Felix Ip: Sketches of Brilliance

Felix Ip 葉偉青 (Hong Kong)
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   Felix Ip is one of my favorite artists & his art has been a huge source of inspiration for this blog. You can find his art peppered throughout my themed Art Collections. Felix is a freelance art director, illustrator & concept artist, but he's gained a large online following over the past 4 years by sharing detailed sketches of famous robots, mech & other geeky pop culture characters.

   ▶ Check out all the Felix Ip Art on YM Blog!

ART: James Jean - Blue Period

James Jean: Blue Period

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   This final feature on James Jean highlights the disproportionate number of blue hued artworks he's created.

  ● See More James Jean Art:

           - Part 1: Taiwanese Surrealist

           - Part 2: Sketches, B&W Prints & Street Art

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ART: James Jean - Sketches

James Jean: Sketchbook
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   In this second part of my 3 part feature on Taiwanese American artist, James Jean I focus on his pencil & ink drawings, street art, sketchbooks & B&W print work. 

ART: James Jean - Taiwanese Surrealist

James Jean: Taiwanese Surrealist
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   James Jean is a Taiwanese American visual artist, known for both his commercial work & fine art gallery work. He is known in the American comics industry as a cover artist for various books published by DC Comics, as well as for his work for Prada, ESPN & Atlantic Records.

ART: Fenghua Zhong - Monkey King & More

Fenghua Zhong (钟风华)
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   Fenghua Zhong is a young, immensely talented digital artist from Xiamen, China who is obsessed with Sun Wukong. I would love to see his vision of The Monkey King as an online fantasy game or CG movie.

ART: Wu Ming Zhong (武明中) - Heart of Glass

Wu Ming Zhong (武明中)
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   Wu Ming Zhong was born in Hebei province China in 1963. In most of his paintings he uses a monochrome palette with reds as the defining accents.  He is the Associate Professor & Director of the Oil Painting Research Office for the College of Fine Arts at Capital Normal University. He was a visiting scholar at Liebin Academy of Fine Arts in Russia & Buffalo State College in the USA.

HAIKU Art Review: Wu Ming Zhong

Fragile heart of glass
In a cold monochrome world
Life painted in blood

   "My work isn’t like the work of Edward Munch – paintings shot through with obvious expressions of pain. My paintings, rather, are easy on the eye & serve to dissipate the pain."

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ART: Zhang Yuxi (张玉玺) - Little Yellow Boy

Zhang Yuxi (张玉玺) - (19 Images)
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   Zhang Yuxi was born in China, 1980 & graduated from Harbin University majoring in sculpture. The artist's work is easily recognizable by the tri-eyed little yellow boy, a main character he created in most of his work which represents hope & positivity. The tri-eye character represents the three different stages of life.

HAIKU Art Review: Zhang Yuxi

Little yellow man

Blinded by colorful past

All seeing 3rd eye?

    “The little boy reflects the experiences of those born during the 1980’s. As I was born in this time period, I know it well & portray this with childhood innocence.” 

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ART: Jie Van - Dreamy Fairytale Worlds

Jie Van (羯梵) - (19 Images)

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   Taiwanese illustrator & painter Jie Van (羯梵) creates art that looks like pages from fantastic children’s story books. Balancing bold colors & strong textures, she walks a tightrope between gaudy & gorgeous. She combines immense skill & detail with vigorous youthful charm.

HAIKU Art Review: Jie Van

Dreamy Fairytales
Colorful storybook pages
Thickly textured worlds

ART: Gordon Cheung - Toxic Corporate Cowboys

Gordon Cheung - (30 works)

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   At first glance, Gordon Cheung's collaged paintings may look like an art student experimenting with Photoshop filters for the first time. The posterization, find edges, & solarized effects are actually achieved via a complex process of actual layering, which for Cheung always begins with the stock listings from newspapers as his base.

HAIKU Art Review: Gordon Cheung

Toxic cowboys ride
Euphoric dystopia
Nuclear neon stock

   Gordon is a British Born Chinese (BBC) of Hong Kong origin, born in 1975. He lives & works in London. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2001 with an MFA in painting.

ART: Jonny Wan - Complex Simplicity

Jonny Wan - (18 works)
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   British born Chinese graphic artist Jonny Wan weaves simple geometric lines w/ irresistible patterns to create striking illustartions for numerous A-list clients such as; The Academy Awards, GQ, Audi, Nike, Wired, etc.

Representation: US - UK - France - Scandinavia

  

HAIKU Art Review: Jonny Wan

Precise arrangement
Pattern, color & form married
Digital kung-fu

   Born in Sheffield, now working in Manchester for clients worldwide across advertising, editorial, publishing, fashion and product design.
   He studied at Manchester School of Art (class of 2008).

ART: Liu Bolin (刘勃麟) - The Disappearing Activist

 Liu Bolin (刘勃麟)
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   Probably the most famous contemporary artist today, Liu Bolin (刘勃麟) has captured the world's attention with his Invisible Man photographs. His extremely clever & original selfies began as silent protests against China's ever increasing socioeconomic issues.

   Since coming to the international stage he has looked beyond China to global consumerism, a Hiding In The City tour of several famous metropolises, vanishing major fashion designers & doing the cover of a Bon Jovi album.

   Bolin's art has been assimilated & repurposed as a commercial novelty. Perhaps this the destiny of all art, as it eventually becomes separated from its original meaning or intent.

HAIKU Art Review: Liu Bolin

Silent subversion 
Becomes covert collusion
When your art's consumed

   I don't want to sound like the hipster music fans who immediately cry, sell out when their favorite indie band finally becomes financially viable. When artists become successful, their lives change, so their messages, priorities, & influences naturally shift as well. Cash removes everything around them 

  As you view Bolin's images below, how do you feel about the scope of his subject matter? 

ART: Sachin Teng - Future's Void

Sachin Teng 

Taiwanese/American Illustrator

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   It's as if Mr. Teng has Seth Brundle's disfunctional teletransporter fused with McFly's time machine & he's merely capturing still lifes of the grotesqueries he has collected. 

ART: Peking Opera - Portraits on Silk

Portraits of Peking Opera Characters

Unknown Artist

via: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

   Qing dynasty (1644–1911) album featuring 100 opera characters painted on silk with ink & gold. This post contains my 25 personal favorites.

   "This album records in detail the makeup and costume of one hundred characters drawn from nine plays. Each character is identified with an accompanying inscription, and the plays are named at the top right of nine of the leaves in slightly larger script." -The Met

ART: WangJia (王加) - Silky History

WangJia 王加 - A-she 阿舍
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HAIKU Art Review:

Textures of aged silk
Longing for what never was
Dreams of ancient times

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ART: XiaoBai (白姥姥) - Painting Selfies

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ARTIST: Victo Ngai - Asian Water Goddess

Victo Ngai - Asian Water Goddess

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Haiku Art Review: Victo Ngai by Yellowmenace

Drawn by Eastern seas
Imagination flowing
Always floating free

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   Victo Ngai is a NY based illustrator from Hong Kong. "Victo" is not a typo or a boy, but a nickname derived from "Victoria" - a leftover from British colonization.

   Victo Ngai - Like Knows Like - She talks about her work, process & life as an artist.

   Victo Ngai is a Hong Kong born, multiple award winning Illustrator, who lives and works in Manhattan, NY. You might have seen her stunning editorial work in magazines like The New Yorker, The New York Times.

ART: Sean Wei

Sean Wei - Love Attack Design (愛搏客設計)
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Haiku Art Review: Sean Wei by Yellowmenace

Punked up kabuki
Cyber AZN w/ a past
Brash hues enlighten

   Artist Sean Wei, a commercial designer and graffiti artist based in Taipei, Taiwan. After graduated from college of visual design, he has been working with commercial and art related designs for 14 years.

"Besides being a designer, I have deep passion for street subculture. I also enjoy the activities such as martial arts, surfing, and DJ-ing."

   Get Sean's designs on your T-shirt @ his Designed By Humans store