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Murals

The impact of Flower Power and more!

Today we meet a mural artist who makes powerful and statements through her large scale works that appear right across the world. Image: moncaron.com

Street Art

Street Artists of Ghent

Today we look at two artists with very different styles, who grew up in Ghent and making their mark on the street art scene. Bué The Warrior is inspired by comic books and pop art, and paints colourful walls while Roa uses a monochromatic palette with a strong obsession for animals and rodents.

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Art Murals of Sandringham

Blank walls and traffic light signal boxes painted with attractive art murals in my suburb of Sandringham, a beachside area of Melbourne, Victoria. The colourful art works are being funded by a grant from the Victorian Government to our local Bayside Council.

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The Cavalcade of Transport - Wall Mural

Today we discover an almost forgotten wall mural by Melbourne artist Harold Freedman. The mural, celebrating land travel development over 100 years, has now been relegated to relative obscurity at the back of a shopping centre in Melbourne CBD. Image: theage.com.au.

Award

The Sir John Sulman Prize 2021

The Sir John Sulman Prize is one of the oldest art awards in Australia and this year was won by Georgia Spain for "Getting down or falling up" an acrylic on canvas work. Learn a little more by clicking through to read the post. Credit image: artgallery.nsw.gov.au

Dogs

Sandringham's Dog Mural

On my morning walk today around Sandringham, Dell, my friend and neighbour showed me this fabulous Dog Mural by Warren J Fox. Photo Credit: splatrs.com

Travel

Beautiful Slovenia

What beckons is a tour through the beautiful and stunning scenery of Slovenia which according to our tour guide, Rick Steves, is the least visited and most underrated of Europe's alpine countries. Some interesting architecture and murals for you to learn about.

Murals

More Rice Art

Chinese have developed a form of Rice Paddy Art in 3D form, while in India, Rangoli folk art of vibrant patterns, created on the ground using colored rice and dry or flour.

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Walk with us in a Field of Art

Japanese Rice Paddy Art - each work a 15,000-square-meter mural designed and created in the Japanese village Inakadate, made up of, up to 7 different types of rice, often depicting local heritage and folklore.

Sculpture

Monday's Feature ArtWork: Dona i Ocell by Joan Miró

The scintillating works of Spanish multi talented artist Joan Miró is our feature work for today. The imposing 20+metre scultpure of a "woman and bird" dominates the Parc Joan Miró in Barcelona. Image: (pinterest.com.au) Dona i Ocell

Performing Arts

Past Post: No 8 July 2018

Today we visit Spain 1897 and take a seat in a cafe. You might sit next to a young Picasso sketching the patrons, see a shadow puppet show produced by Pere Romeu or listen to Antoni Gaudi planning his Sagrada Familia. Image: Ramon Casas & Pere Romeu on a Tandem en.wikipedia.org

Figurative Art

Past Posts: No 3 May 2018

The Past Posts today bring you the Mexican artist Diego Rivera: his murals and his wonderfully exciting images of the folk of Mexico. Introducing you to our new look footer. Fleurieu Peninsula link fixed!

Still Life

Past Posts: No 2 May 2018

Today's Past Posts brings you two posts on the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

Mailbag

Mail Bag: April

Bringing news from subscribers including the Bungendore Wood Work Gallery (Canberra), Regents Park (London), Fortuna Villa (Bendigo). Image: Mural by Doris Lee (commons.wikimedia.org)

Murals

Soutine and Michael May

Giving recognition to British artist and set painter Michael May who painted the walls of Soutine Restaurant St John's Wood, London.

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Friday's Feature: Soutine Restaurant

Showcasing some of the paintings that adorn the walls of the Soutine Restaurant, St John 's Wood. London.

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Friday Feature: Buckfast Abbey Mural by Mother Joanna Jamieson

Showcasing the mural painted by Mother Joanna Jamieson at Buckfast Abbey in Devon. The mural depicts the reconstruction of the Abbey between 1907 and 1939.

Exhibition

Frieze Week London Artist: Marc Camille Chaimowicz

Marc Chaimowicz uses cross-disciplinary work in painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, and wallpaper which challenge the categorical divisions between art and design.

Women Artists

Pixie O’Harris and the missing paintings

The multi-talented Pixie O’Harris (1903-1991), children’s book author, painter, illustrator and broadcaster, was born Rhona Olive Harris in Cardiff, Wales. By the age of fourteen Rhona was exhibiting drawings with the South Wales Art Society, of which her father was a chairman and secretary.

Mailbag

Mail and a Little More

Thank you for this, I think the leaf art is just incredible! What amazing patience and skill Omid Asadi and Philippa Nikulinsky both have in their respective art forms! The minute detail is just incredible!

Figurative Art

Mirka Mora

Mirka Madeleine Mora(18 March 1928 – 27 August 2018) was a French-born Australian visual artist and cultural figure who contributed significantly to the development of contemporary art in Australia. Mirka herself used a great variety of media- drawing, painting, sculpture, murals, embroidery.

Murals

Diego Rivera Muralist

Diego Rivera was a life long Marxist and member of the Mexican Communist Party and eventually turned to Social Realism as a way to express his ideas about the oppression of the poor in a country dominated by a contrasting politics and colours. (Image: Man at the Crossroads en.wikipedia.org)

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Diego Rivera Painter

Exloring paintings by Diego Rivera (1886-1957), one of the Mexican muralists known as Los tres grandes who together established the Mexican Muralism Movement. (Image: Self Portrait wikiart.org)

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Mexican Muralism Movement

People have been creating murals since women learnt how to draw on cave walls. It is now believed that the majority of the cave muralists were women as the men would be out hunting, fishing, fighting. Image: David Alfaro Siqueiros (widewalls.ch)