Paul Toupet

Paul Toupet was born in Paris in 1979. He trained at Penninghen art school and also at the Workshop of Fine Arts of Glacière located in Paris. In 1996, he started to work focus his work specifically on the human representation, and has been ever since.   He sculptures wax puppets, which resembles children-like figures and rabbit masks. Along with the sculptures, he adds hair braids vomiting from the mouth, dressed in torn tissues or feathers and nucleated eyes. A lot of his art works are influeced from African art and religious art, mixed with his own exotic taste. Through his art work, he is trying to show us how the world can be peaceful but scary at the same time. 

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Bovey Lee

Bovey Lee is an artist from Hong Kong, but is now residing in Philadelphia. Lee creates extremely intricate paper cuts on rice paper. All of her work is made entirely from hand with an X-Acto knife. She does not use any lasers or cutting machines. Lee combines drawings, paintings, and digital media in her art work. None of her art pieces include color, just shadow and adding depth into the 2-dimensional picture, giving off a 3-dimensional picture.

This piece is called The Bird That Thinks It’s A Plane.  It is entirely made from paper.  On the right, shows a close up view of the art piece, with the main focal point easy to see. Lee shows a brid, flying in front of a fence, with a shadow of a plane, hence the title. The bird thinks itself as a plane, being big and mighty, flying high in the sky, going where it wants. Even though it is only a 2 dimensional art piece, it looks like the objects are popping out of the picture.

This art piece is called Little Crimes. Lee tries to show the crimes happening in everyday life, but then again trying to relate the pictures to ancient chinese folk art. She uses uses these pictures to relate to our lives in America. Notice how her art pieces both have a fence within the picture, where it is behind or in front of the main focal points, which shows her views on everything happening throughout life. Imagine the hard work and precision you need to make this type of art work. You must have a lot of patience and concentration to make a such detailed paper cut-out. 


















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http://www.boveylee.com/
http://the-artists.org/portfolio/Bovey-Lee
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/5584/bovey-lee-paper-cutout-drawings.html

Amy Talluto

This week, I tried to find something relating more to nature. An excellent example of a nature artist is Amy Talluto. Talluto was grew up in New Orleans, painting and photographing large landscapes. She was more attracted to the wild landscapes, than normal everyday backyards. In Talluto's art, you can see the fine detail of each precise figure.  Many of her paintings are in settings of the forest. As you first look at these paintings, you may think they are pictures because of each specific detail, but as you look closer, you can see that it is all a painting, which Talluto made.

In this painting, you can tell that Talluto captures the moment within, because each object has it's own detail. She captures the reflections in the water, and also the sun gleaming down from the sky behind the trees.

In this painting, Talluto does an amazing job at capturing the movement of the stream. You can tell that Talluto knows her knowledge on nature. There is no human activity in sight in each pertaining, only mother nature surrounded by it's beauty. Many of us forget how beautiful nature can be because we would rather stay inside. Wildness still exists throughout many parts of the world, for now, if we keep it that way at least.

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