Die Antwoord

Or - the visual representation of WTF.
Musical creation from South Africa.
Female caracter, Yo-Landi Visser, real name unknown.
Male caracter, Ninja, real name Watkin Tudor Jones.
They are married and have a baby girl named Sixteen, and are the core of the formation, but sometimes they invite other rappers/singers to participate in their vids/songs/performances.
They also cooperate with DJ Hi/Tek who suffers from a rare genetical disease called progeria.
Anyway-Enjoy.








Ps. This is how Yolandi and Ninja looked before Die Antwoord.

Some of their more - recent pics:








Ps. #Update# DJ Hi-Tek, aka. Leon Botha died few days ago. He was 26.
That's his own self-portrait, called "Angels of Polarity".

Alphonse Mucha

Woman modeling for Mucha

Do I really have to introduce him?
I don't remember when spotted him first, but from then on, I'm buying books and going to every exhibition I can find.

Banksy

Banksy is a controversial British street artist, graffiti maker, painter.
His* works are very contemporary, infected with the impurity of a modern urban life - rubbish everywhere, media, dirt, sales, cheap stuff for masses,wars, conflicts, globalism and fulfilled with pop culture.
(Ps. dzięki kapusta ;)
*(thanks dear Kapust for explaining me basic rules of english language;-)

Soul Journey - Andrew Gonzalez

Mr. Gonzalez is self - taught American artist, using airbrushed acrylics on clayboard or gessoed panels. His creative outlook is inspired by the idea that 'Beauty is supreme Theophany' and esoteric themes like death, birth, or any other transformations.

Japonisme

http://lotusgreenfotos.blogspot.com
Japonisme is a blog created by an anonymous person using a nickname 'Lotus green'.
It's how she desribes this site:
..."i once went around the world, a week in japan, a week in paris, and a week in new york. from nyc i took the train down to rutgers where there is an institute for the study of japonisme, and where they have an incredible selection from their collection on display.

the main reason i did this was because i wanted to see, well, see intuitively, the evolution of japanese into japonisme. and i did."

Magical realism -Jacek Yerka

Ecumenic Cat (my fav)


Between the hell and heaven


Midsummer night's dream


Tsunami


Sonet


Artist's kitchen



Book illustrated by Yerka to the short stories of Harlan Ellison


Finnish girls keep posting Finnish artist, now's my turn to show sth from my homeland.
Yerka's inspirations are Jan van Eyck, Bosh,Campin, and surrealist like Magritte.
The pastoral atmosphere of the Polish countryside provides a solid, mimetic foundation for much of Yerka's art.
However, it is his own uniquely evocative dreams that limn the complex, often arcane imagery of his work.
Yerka inspired the fantasy writer Harlon Ellison to write 30 short stories which along with his pictures constituted the publication entitled "Mind Fields".
The same American publisher "Morpheus International" released the album "The Fantastic Art of Jacek Yerka".
In 1995 the artist was awarded the prestigious World Fantasy Award for the best artist. He exhibits in Poland and abroad (in Germany, France and USA among others), being an esteemed representative of the science fiction stream of art.

A gothic romance - Victoria Frances

Victoria Frances is a young Spanish illustrator, born in Valencia.
Her work is very gothic-inspired - ghost women with long hair, wearing blood-stained dresses are most common characters found in her art.
She cities her inspirations as Adgar Allan Poe, Anne Rice, H.P.Lovecraft, and Louis Royo.
She has illustrated several books and many posters. Calendars for 2006 and 2007 featuring her art have also been released.
http://www.victoriafrances.es

Knee-deep in hell - Hans Rudolf Giger

Swiss painter, sculptor,designer.
Debuted with art books called "Necronomicon".
And,everyone knows his masterpiece Alien(which gained him Oscar in 1980).
The design of the creature with strong Freudian sexual undertones and multiple phallic symbols, while simultaneously presenting an overall feminine figure, provided a compelling androgynous image, conforming to archetypal mappings and imageries in horror films that often redraw gender lines.
The huge worms in Dune movie were also by his design.
Also:Poltergeis in Poltergeist II,Sil in Species, batmobile in Batman Forever.

Journey to the dark continues - Beksinski

I saw his paintings first when I was about 10 y.o, on the exhibition in my hometown.
Beksinski was an architect, a photographer, painter and a digital artist.
He never added a title to any of his works - therefore, let them speak for themselves.
www.beksinski.com.pl
www.beksinski.pl