Incredible artist of today: Neo Rauch

Today's incredible artist is the German Neo Rauch.

"Rauch's large-scale, often stridently colored paintings have the character of feverishly worked notations from a particularly unsettling dream life. Soldiers, animals, and people conducting business, carousing, and enacting strange rituals slip between historical periods and pictorial styles in a seeming parody of narrative painting. The work is at once instantly recognizable and utterly inimitable, and it has become a collectors' favorite in both Europe and the United States".

Read more of the description and the interview here. And watch a number of his great works here:

Die Fuge, 2007

Pfad, 2003

Gold

Neue Rollen, 2005.

Die Vorführung, 2006.

Incredible artist of today: Kyle Ranson

I spent some time yesterday surfing the internet looking at different contemporary artists. Actually, it's one of the things I like the most after making art myself and visiting museums for experiencing the real deal. I found so many incredibly interesting artists that I thought I could just as well share one new artist here everyday, so you guys could get the opportunity to get as inspired as I do. I don't think that I have the time nor the patience do to a lot of describing, I just want to show you some really great stuff. So here it goes: very first artist on the list is Kyle Ranson. Read an interesting interview with him here (at one of my favourite contemporary art-blogs around the internet) I love his use of those fluorescent, bright colours and how every painting has lots and lots of layers - in so many ways.��

H&M Haircuff

H&M has made this amazingly cool golden haircuff in the style of Dries van Noten. I want one before anyone else!��

Richard Mortensen

Works by the fantastic Danish artist Richard Mortensen.

MX - Ni Runder Modsols

MX - This is some kind of Danish folk/alternative/electronica music I've listened to lately. It's very cool, but its almost impossible to find any information about them. Which maybe makes it even more cool. I hope to listen to it live someday. Really artsy

Dr. Martens

Awesome metallic Dr. Martens shoes - I want a pair!

Jan Kempenaers "Spomenik"

Fantastic photographs by the Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers. Photos of the so called "Spomeniks", which were monuments raised in former Yugoslavia as symbols of the power of the regime. Simply beautiful and yet terrifying!

Yokoo

I stumbled over this fantastic designer, Yokoo, the other day as I was spending time discovering new designers and artists at Etsy.com. Yokoo a fantastic knitwear designer and she has this special aura, which is just so... indefinable. Go take a look at her stuff or watch this fantastic video made by Pascal Perich:

Handmade Portraits: YOKOO from Etsy on Vimeo.