Burnished Vignettes – Contemporary Art Inspiration
I have a tendency to drown in other’s work. I have a hard time balancing being inspired and being paralyzed by how beautiful someone else’s work is. There are more working artists now than probably at any other time in history, all competing for an audience. Below are some of my latest or long-time favorites.
All the pieces below are produced by contemporary artists I admire. They all inhabit a similar space in how I categorize artists and work. They are all very different but stir up similar feelings: contemporary and antique, like opening an old book full of yellowed pages and secrets.
Breaking From Earthly Bonds and Fated Innocence by Chrystal Chan
I feel that all these works successfully contribute to the long conversation of art history. They look backward and forward.
Umbra by Sam Wolfe Connelly.
Theater of Cruelty by Roberto Ferri.
Formerly, drawing by Allison Sommers.
Satan and The Dance of Asterion by Denis Forkas.
They remind me just a bit of looking into a miniature diorama, a viewfinder, all a scene of a single piece of work or play. They all share a similar balance of warm and cold golden browns.
I’m going to try to blog more about my influences as a way to organize my thoughts and to help me understand what I want to achieve.