Archive for March 15, 2015

Artist of the moment………..Odeith

 

Odeith is a fantastic street artist from Portugal renown for his style of creating depth and three dimensional on flat surfaces.

Odeith was born in Damala, Portugal in the year 1976.

The artist has ran his own tattoo parlor.

He became interested in graffiti and street art by seeing it on trains in the 1990s.

The artist is based out of Lisbon, Portugal. Odeith is also a commercial artist and has worked with such international brands and Shell Oil and Coke.

Below a link to the website of the artist Odeith:

http://www.odeith.com/

Price range information: This artist is great for the fact its very easy to purchase a fine print. At the website listed above prints range from 25€ up to  550€. If you live in States or own U.S. dollars its a great opportunity to buy a piece of fine art whilst the dollar is so strong against the euro.

In this clip from Odeith we see many examples of his style of artistic lettering:

 

Odeith stands alone with his style of building dimension in letters. With many street artists who use typography they exaggerate the letters so much I can’t understand them! Not so with Odeith, whose letters and work I can recognize at first glance.

Many artists are able to make fantastic images making three dimensional works out of letters, but what is so impressive about Odeith is that he is able to apply his style to the corners of buildings, and their 90 degree angles, in addition to painting on the flat side of a building.

Below more images by Odeith:

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Artist of the moment……..Guido Argentini

 

 

 

Guido Argentini is a Italian photographer renown for his images of the figure. Guido Argentini was born in Florence, Italy in the year 1966.

He began college with the idea of studying medicine. He left college after three years to pursue his goal of being a professional photography.

Argentinini is now based out of Los Angeles, California.

Price range information: Works range from $8,000 to $23,000.

Below a link to the website of Guido Argentini:

http://www.guidoargentini.com/

In this clip we view a wonderful series of images by Guido Argentini from his “Silvereye” series.

In addition to the previous works of Silvereye Argentini has also made a book titled Shades of a Woman. A closer look at this book here:

Argentini reminds me of photographer Ruth Bernhard. Both artist’s produce very interesting images concentrating not on face and color of the female form, but rather the curves  of the figure and sometimes even the more interesting cast shadows of the female form. Argentini has brought new life to the classic ideas of how to shoot the female form.

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