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Pejac is a brilliant Spanish artist whose witty street art shines a light on social norms and inflexible societal constructs. His work is minimally intervening, but offers a maximum effect.
Much like Banksy or Dran, Pejac’s street art questions our absurd reality and its promised permanence.
This psychedelic art gallery showcases the surreal imagination of Larry Carlson.
Each image has an out of this world feeling. The colors and visuals all coalesce with the viewer’s imagination, it’s like looking into an optical illusion where there’s more behind each artistic piece.
> The Wonderful World of Larry Carlson | Larry Carlson
Banksy made a video about his Residency in New York City to accept his Webby for Person of the Year.
Not many people would make a logical connection between street art and the Internet, but Banksy not only showed the world what that looks like, but he made people care about it, too.
For providing a glimpse into the potential future of art on the Web, Banksy truly deserves to be named Webby Person of the Year. – The Webby Awards
Guillem Mari is an illustrator whose distinct watercolor style has gotten a lot of attention.
After working in the animation industry, Guillem became a freelancer in comics and illustration, working for Marvel and Image Comics.
Animation has captivated audiences for over a hundred years. From classic forms like hand drawn and stop-motion, to cutting-edge techniques like motion graphics and CGI, animation has a long history of creating style and poetry unachievable through live action filmmaking.
It is a tool for educating, a place for experimentation and play, and a way of telling personal stories that reach the viewer with powerful visual metaphors.
Igor Piačka’s highly detailed slightly erotic illustrations are stunning.
They straddle the thin line between life and death, simultaneously capturing the struggle, clarity, and joy of dualistic thinking and it’s ever widening perception that carries us all towards higher connectivity and shared love.
Alex Pardee is a freelance artist, apparel designer, and a writer from California, who is best known for illustrating The Used’s album artwork.
I’m inspired by Jim Henson. By Rod Serling. By Tim Burton. By Terry Gilliam.
I’m inspired by Scooby Doo and the notion that a cartoon about a teenage LSD addict who thinks his dog can talk and that everyone he meets is a silly monster can actually get made into an iconic television show for kids.
I’m inspired by new kids shows like Adventure Time, Yo Gabba Gabba, and The Aquabats for helping adults remember that its ok to act like a kid. I’m inspired by imagination.
I’ve recently been inspired by “Cabin In The Woods”, and by “Ready Player One”, and by anything that I see, read or hear that makes me run home and want to add more elements to someone else’s world in hopes of holding on to that experience by selfishly expanding it.
By horror movies from the 80’s and the creation of boogeymen and how one person can inject nightmares into someone for their whole life just by putting sharp teeth on a clown or finger-knives on a burn-victim.
I’m inspired by David Choe and by his book “SLOW JAMS”, which I read in 1999 and have since never read a graphic novel as personal and honest.
I’m inspired by other artists like Sam Kieth, Jhonen Vasquez, Trey Parker & Matt Stone, Harmony Korine & Jim Phillips, for pushing the boundaries before me because it continues to encourage me that I don’t have to conform to expectations.
Inspired by my Dad for letting me sneak down and watch Poltergeist at my sister’s slumber party, for suggesting Stephen King novels to me when I was 12, and for introducing me to The Watchmen, Hard Boiled and The Killing Joke when I was 14.
I’m inspired when I stumble across something that catches me off guard and opens my eyes to new possibilities. At 6 it was my parents. At 14 it was Robocop. At 15 it was The Maxx. At 16 it was Street Fighter. At 17 it was graffiti. At 20 it was the discovering of zines and self-publishing.
Sincerely yours,
Alex Pardee & the Breakfast Club.
An artist who paints with a combination of metaphysical, spiritual, and music themes, Tokio Aoyama hails from a tiny town in the north of Japan.
Tokio has painted murals and has done commission work for clients all over the world. He has designed art for record labels Epistrophik Peach Sound, Mello Music, Moamoo, and Jazzy Sport.
Tokio has done many private commissions for domestic and international clients. He has also done many live paintings at Music events such as Appi Jazzy Sport, Japan.
Tokio Aoyama’s trippy art has a hip hop feel with psychedelic undertones. Enjoy this collection of his fine work.
Official Website | Tokio Aoyama
This trippy animation is loaded with visual references to the writings of Franz Kafka and Hunter S. Thompson.
The psychedelic piece of art was created by String Theory for online bookseller Good Books International that donates 100% of its profits to Oxfam, an organization that fights poverty.
We dug through the darkest recesses of our minds and studio to create original music and sound design for this masterpiece. Working with squirming, analog-tape leeches, moaning coeds, screaming guitar goats, and brain-exploding psychedelia, we were certainly in our element.
Plus, it’s always fun to rock out and get a little weird for a good cause! – String Theory
Paolo Ceric creates bizarre GIFs, and he’s really good at it!
His trippy animated GIFs seem to be inspired by sacred geometry and so-called impossible objects – think the Penrose stairs.
They’re fun to look at – especially if you’re already tripping – sorta like most things, I guess.
Hope you like them, sound off in the comments below.
Abby Martin‘s speech about the artist’s task in society mixed with awesome music by Explosions in the Sky and a selection of artworks by visionary artists. (Editor’s Note: Unfortunately the video was deleted by the author. Please check out the visionary art resources below.)
All art is a question mark, but only you know the answer to. In the broader picture, the warped value system in which we live has conditioned us to consider art as something unattainable, something unapproachable, as a rich man’s hobby.
Because the “powers that be” know that only through artistic expression and imagination we can envision a better world and work to create one. – Abby Martin
Street Art promoting social awareness from Mear One:
Visions of space and the future from Japanese culture in the 70s and 80s.
One of our favorite sites, 50watts’ has a running feature where they showcase Japanese sci fi art scans from their ever-growing collections of books and catalogs on Japanese illustration and design.
We love looking through old book illustrations, and the sci-fi genre always is chalk-full of the most surreal, colorful, and bizarre. This is a fantastic collection of obscure artists and their fantastic imaginations that you would otherwise never see! – Juxtapose
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