Art: exploring Bon Exposé

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A recent post on Google+ led to my discovery of the site Bon Exposé.  In August 2012 Leodor Selenier announced their new site.

There are many delights to be found there, such as art installations, 3D graphics, graphic design, and photography. In a section called Inspiration, there's a subsection called Movies, where there are trailers and reviews of films about art and artists. "Surviving Picasso" is one I missed.

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Installation artist Janet Echelman is present; there are some striking photos.

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Janet Echelman, "Line Drawing," Bon Expose

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I particularly like the way they've handled 3D art, making the effort to assign a genre to each artist's work. One of Andrea Bertaccini's pieces is below.

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3D Hyper-Realism: Andrea Bertaccini, Bon Expose

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Another featured work is "Mog's Christmas Calamity." Here's a how-it-was-made video with an introduction by author Judith Kerr.

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If you're an artist you can request that your work be shown at Bon Exposé. Directions are available on the Submissions page.


-- Marge

Art: 1.26

Artist Janet Echelman planned to give painting exhibitions in Mahabalipuram, a fishing village famous for sculpture, but her paints never arrived.  So she seeded her art with what she learned from the fishermen there and took it to the city.  In fact, to many cities.

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Janet Echelman, 1.26/Tsunami, Tumblr

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Janet's site has a glorious array of her many sculptures.  She also maintains a studio on Tumblr.  To see how one of her pieces is set up, take a look at this video slideshow about the installation of 1.26/Tsunami:

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And for a truly inspiring talk about her work and taking imagination seriously, here's her talk given at TED.

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This is a person who really knows how to make lemonade from a serving of lemons.

-- Marge