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Alphonse Mucha
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Marcel Duchamp
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Remedios Varo Uranga
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André Masson
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Richard Horsman Dimension Shift
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Injecting some life into the pixels by painstakingly rebuilding the sprites and backgrounds in imitation Lego™ using the modelling application Ldraw (the results of which can be seen in the image at the top of this page. Once collected and stored, this information could be used to create an Ldraw file (replacing each pixel with an appropriately coloured and three-dimensionally positioned 1x1 Lego block). The application to do this was created in Visual Basic and tied-in nicely with Ldraw to produce results like the image shown

Robert Steven Connett
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Robert Steven Connett is a Los Angeles based artist who celebrates dream sequences, as he describes, “I often think that dreams may be the gateway to another world. Perhaps a parallel world just as important as the waking world we call ‘reality?’ ” Robert is an introspective artist who offers a sincere look into life’s circumstance while creating an equidistant world made up of micro organisms, fear and beauty.

Martin Ramírez
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Born in 1895, the Jalisco, México native has been hailed as \"one of the greatest artists of the 20th century\" by The New York Times. Ramírez, who spent most of his life in mental institutions, was considered an \"outsider artist\" – art made by someone out of touch with reality.

Joint filter art - Cliff Maynard
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Maynard collects thousands of the little buggers (the website does not detail exactly how, cough, ahem, cough) and then, using an Exacto knife, carefully (an 8x10 inch piece takes up to 70 plus hours) cuts out tiny little \"puzzle pieces\" to be fit together like, well, a mosaic.

Niksic
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Krešimir Nikšic roden je 1961. godine u Zagrebu.                                                        
Magistrirao je slikarstvo na ALU u Ljubljani kod profesora Zmage Lenardica. O njegovom radu izdane su dvije monografije  i jedno prošireno izdanje uz tekstove najpoznatijih likovnih kriticara (1999. , 2006., 2008.)
Dobitnik je 1. nagrade za slikarstvo na 13. Biennalu Internazionale Art del Frinulli Giulia (2002.)

10000 Zagreb
Brešcenskog 16
+ + 385 98 269 952

……..  Bez kalkulacije.
Nikšic je ostvario potresno koloristicki lijepa platna, od kojih svako živi i vibrira na vlastitoj koloristi?koj frekvenciji.
To je ocigledno ona razina likovno – poeticke dore?enosti koja je u samomu umjetniku neka mjesta sjete, melankolije ili tjeskobe ostavila zalije?enim i transformiranima, jer u suprotnomu ne bi s toliko snage titrala sa slika novog ciklusa na promatraca.



…….Bez obzira  je li njegove slike asociraju na nebeska prostranstva, zvjezdane maglice, temu Velikog Praska, morske lagune ili pulsiranje života na velikim morskim dubinama, Nikšic je ostvario potresno koloristicki lijepa platna, od koji svako živi i vibrira na vlastitoj koloristickoj frekvenciji.
U novom ciklusu slika, koji korespondira koncepciji „Odrazi Jadrana“, Nikšic se bavi temom
jadranskih otoka, iz pticje  perspektive, na novi nacin ………..“


............ Iva Korbler, povjesnicarka umjetnosti



……Krešimir Nikšic, Hrvat gotovo bi se moglo reci Venecijanac, dugih stoljeca bili smo
zajedno, naša kultura  i kultura Hrvata se oduvijek prekrasno miješala ……
Nikšicev umjetnicki vodic je zasigurno njegova sposobnos da živi u simbiozi sa prirodom …., tom prekrasnom prirodom njegove domovine koja je još uvijek netaknuta. Ona ga asorbira a on nju elaborira i predstavlja svojim bojama…….


……Ja vjerujem da on osjeca to što mi imamo u sebi . Lijepo je osjecati se suputnikom u putovanju sa Nikšicem, suputnikom u putovanju koje se nikada nece završiti jer Nikšicevo slikarstvo kad jednom uce u nas ostaje zauvijek ii postaje dio nas samih, dio naše svakodnevice, horizontu bez kraja…… Grande pitoro…..“

................... Giorgio Pilla, Venecija, 2. listopada 2007.

 

………..“ Prepuštanje kovitlanju boje, u izrastanju iz jezgre ili u upucenosti nedefiniranoj tocki sabiranja vitalitet kromatskog stavlja u prvi plan neovisno o rasponu palete. Nikšicu su dostatne jedna, dvije boje (uz razložne citate cesto i kontrastnih vrijednosti) za dosizanje pune cujnosti prostora, otisaka senzibiliteta. Pritom dominaciji plavog, zelenog, zlatnog s tragovima bijele Nikšicev je odabir primijenjen u recentnim radovima s plohama pulsirajuce boje u tvorbi segmenata i cjeline.

……..gradenog tjelesnošcu boje sacuvane i u lazurnosti namaza postupaka koji i u transparentnosti površine dovodi do slojevitosti prostora, boje zgusnutih partija i otvorenih do sfumatnog nestajanja…….“

................... Stanko Špoljaric




………..dapace, magmaticna epiderma i akciona stigmatiziranost  oslikanos pola na suprotnoj su strani od svake neutralnosti. U svakom slucaju široki dah i duboki zvuk najrecentnijih Nikšicevih slika potvrduje njegovu visoku metjersku spremu i sve jasniju orijentaciju na eminentno likovnu sintaksu. Cuju se sirenski glasovi minimalizma i purizma, no ocigledno je da ovaj autor ne kani udovoljiti napastima bilo kakva stvaranja da ne želi ispustiti kist – kormilo iz ruke, jer istinu svojega opredjeljenja može potvrditi samo vlastorucno s cjelovitim ulogom iskustva…….“

.......................... Tonko Maroevic

Don Kenn
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Don Kenn’s Monster Post-its are definitely incredibly intricate. The artist has taken regular yellow Post-It notes and created these monster masterpieces using his amazing sketching skills. The artist is known for his work on children’s shows so it’s no wonder these works are so well done. Don Kenn’s Monster Post-its are definitely something to glance through, even if you have an aversion to monsters.  Kenn can bring out a whole new world out of a post-it note with his elaborate monsters. The eerie yellow background serves his purpose for his monster drawings in black. Don is a modern day Edward Gorey.

The LSD Blotter Art
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Blotter Art is a term that refers to the artwork that liquid LSD is dropped onto. The artwork is printed onto \"blotter\" paper and then perforated into tiny squares or \"hits,\" which can be torn apart into easy to manage quantities.

In the 1960s, when LSD was legal, it was distributed in large pills, sometimes called \"barrels\" because of their shape. It was also sold on anything from sugar cubes to animal crackers. Dealers began to want their \"batch\" of LSD to be recognizable from the others, so they began to invent ways to trademark their acid. The chemists would make the pills a certain shape or color as to set them apart from others, especially if they were packaging particularly potent dosages. This also served as a form of a validation of authenticity, proving that the dealers were not selling fake LSD.
As a bonus, the dealers would get a kick out of the buzz created by their \"brand\" of acid.