Le Carnet Noir

Nacho Ormaechea is a Spanish artist who resides in Paris. He says about places which motivate him the most:

'I'm mostly comfortable with cities which I see as perfect theaters full of inspiring yet anonymous characters.'

The people in his series 'Le Carnet Noir' are anonymous characters, a snapshot of a fleeting moment in their day, and taken away from this landscape and replaced with a contrasting image. These characters are the ones which inspire Ormaechea the most, anonymous people who, although they are unknown to most, are involved with and in the day to day running of the city.

lecarnetnoir.com

Artists and their Pets

Another fun post for you today, famous artists with their pets.

Ai Wei Wei with Lai Lai - one of his 40 cats

Andy Warhol and Archie

Georgia O'Keeffe with her Chow dog

Henri Matisse with Minouche

Jackson Pollock with Gyp and Ahab

Picasso and Lump

Dirty Car Art

Apologies for the lack of posts the past couple of days! Have been campaigning to become President of my society (which I got!) and starting back at uni for the last term of second year. Today's post is something a little different, I'm sure a couple of my readers would've written on a dirty car window 'Clean me' or drawn a face or something of the like, artist Scott Wade, who lives near a dirt track, does something a little more...

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Anthony Cudahy

Anthony Cudahy is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York City. He mostly paints portraits of individuals with a bold sense of colour and light, using thick strokes of the paint brush. For me, his work echoes features of Francis Bacon's paintings, not just with technique but also the eerie and unfamiliar subjects and emotion emitting from the painting, and also Lucian Freud, because of the fleshy feel of the paint. 

Francis Bacon - Self Portrait (1970)

Lucian Freud - Reflection (1985)

www.anthonycudahy.com