Changethethought

Artist Max Berry likes to keep things nice and flat.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Graffiti, Max Berry, Painting

Australian artist Daniel O’Toole has a background in graffiti but has been making his way into the fine art world since 2006.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Australia, Daniel O’Toole, Graffiti, Painting

Swiss artist Emma Kunz lived from 1892 to 1963. She was recognized as a healer and described herself as a researcher. However, she is now internationally recognized through her artwork. And you thought geometric-inspired artwork was so 2009.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Emma Kunz, Geometry, Painting, Switzerland

Louis Reith creates simple yet beautiful artwork that you can check out in his Flickr-folio.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Geometry, Louis Reith, Painting

Latvian born artist, Henrijs Preiss draws his influence from urban landscapes, Russian Icons and Italian Renaissance painting.

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Southern California street artist, Chor Boogie is an accomplished master of his medium. His mural and commissioned work is beautiful.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Chor Boogie, Graffitti, Painting, Southern California

A long scroll of roughly-rendered, brightly colored and geometry-inspired art crafted by the hand of Brent Wadden.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Brent Wadden, Geometry, Painting

Drew Struzan paints illustrations for use in movie posters and on the cover of DVDs. You can actually buy his work for a hefty sum, but owning one would be a real shred of pop culture history. His work is strikingly beautiful and the likeness and heroism in his imagery is dead on for the film industry.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Drew Stuzan, Illustration, Movies, Painting

Hybrid Heart is the artwork of Beautiful Decay founder and publisher, Amir H. Fallah. I have been on his email list for a very long time now, and I have been really amazed at just how personally committed he is to his personal pursuit of fine art and his career as a painter. His latest work shows the result of that committment as his work continues to mature and develop into some unique, contemporary and colorful compositions.

written by Christopher | tags: Amir H. Fallah, Art, Hybrid Heart, Painting

Illustrator C.F. Payne’s imagery has graced the covers of Time Magazine, Readers Digest, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Book Review and Sunday Magazine, MAD Magazine, der Spiegel, U.S. News and World Report, The Atlantic Monthly, Texas Monthly, Boys Life and more.

His work as been exhibited at The Cincinnati Art Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, The Norman Rockwell Museum, The Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration, The Selby Gallery at Ringling College of Art and Design and numerous college and university galleries.

And he finally has a website.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, C.F. Payne, Illustration, Painting

Pablo González-Trejo was born in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, and currently lives and works in Miami and Paris. He pains portraits that he then defaces.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Cuba, Defacing, Pablo González-Trejo, Painting

Oscar Pastarus has a highly artistic portfolio ranging from drawing, paintings and graphic work. All of which thoughtfully colored and composed.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Drawing, Illustration, Oscar Pastarus, Painting

The Clayton Brothers are a pair of artists now working in Pasadena, California but have home ties to good ole Denver, Colorado. I came across their work this morning while perusing the Denver Egotist and was really blown away by the paintings created for their recent exhibition, Jumbo Fruit, at Patrick Painter Gallery in Santa Monica. The paintings fall somewhere between pop and metaphysics and the resulting imagery is really amazing. You can also read Nathan Spoor‘s review of the exhibit at Juxtapoz.

written by Christopher | tags: Clayton Brothers, Denver, Juxtapoz, Painting

Betsy Walton is a Portland, Oregon-based artist for hire who quit her job to become a full time artist in October of 2006. Apparently, she has never looked back.

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Painter Amy Casey has generated some really unusual paintings. The thing you notice after getting over the interesting imagery and composition is the really controlled color palette.

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Ted Vasin paints some highly unusual imagery that I wasn’t entirely sure how to interpret. Although I like all of it very much. Beautiful use of color.

Via Human Resources.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Moscow, Painting, Ted Vasin

Jonathan Bergeron refers to his work as crapalicious but it is anything but. The lush colors, texturing and attention to detail in his work is really beautiful. The subject matter and approach might be referred to as ‘lowbrow’  but the craftsmanship, technique and end result is definitely ‘fine’ art in my opinion. I’d hang that crap on my wall.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Johnny Crap, Jonathan Bergeron, Painting

Kirk Demarais does bad art good with some really funny movie-based celebrity portrait paintings that look like something painted by the girl from Napoleon Dynamite. They seem to be selling very well and they are hard not to like and would definitely be a talking piece. The family from ‘The Jerk’ above is classic.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Kirk Demarais, Painting, Secret Fun Spot