The older you get, the more you realize it's not about who knows you the longest, it's about who brings out your inner child, speaks your love language, makes you love yourself more, and loves you on the days you don't feel loveable.
17/ Studio Ibbini is an award-winning collaboration between Julia Ibbini and Stéphane Noyer creating works that intersect contemporary art, design and engineering. Based in Abu Dhabi, they create intricate, detailed works inspired by Islamic geometry, pattern & design
Artists have been using paper as a form of expression for thousands of years, through paper folding and intricate cutting techniques. Today, artists are redefining the art of paper.
Here are 24 contemporary paper artists inspired by Islamic geometry & pattern
A thread…
(A) When the legs are straight, the Glutes and TFL are relatively flattened. When we raise the legs at the hip, the TFL, Glute Min/Med bulge outwards (B). Without this bulging, the legs will lack believable form.
Now we can see why Magritte was such a colossal influence on Pop Art, Minimalist Art, and Conceptual Art.
Because Magritte's work was intellectual rather than emotional, conceptual rather than spiritual, unknowable rather than expressive.
This was his last painting:
Similar ideas are explored in The Telescope (1963).
Again, Magritte takes something utterly mundane and familiar, portrays it in a representional manner, and then slightly alters this reality.
It is unsettling and compelling in equal measure, mysterious and unknowable.