Photo credits: http://atsukojoe.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/goldfish-salvation/
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At first look you’d think that these goldfish in a bath pail are real…how could they not be they’re swimming happily. If you have an aquarium you’ll know better, no such amount of fish can survive in a small space like this without proper maintenance and other specialized equipment to appropriate water quality and other characteristics suitable for the residents (be it pond, aquarium or bowls).
Thank Goodness, above is one of the many wonderful works of Riusuke Fukahori, a contemporaryJapanese artist who started his original works which were painted in resin in 2004.
Inspired by his pet fish, Fukahori’s works mainly depicts these colorful aquatic vertebrates (white goldfish has a lovely color too ^_^). See the artist at work in this video, he uses acrylic mostly in containers then he paints again and pours resin on top, the layers result in a three-dimensional appearance. Notice too the brush he uses at the end…resembles a giant broom we use back home for cleaning the floor. teehee.
His works are on display at ICN gallery in London from 1 Dec 2011 – 11 Jan 2012…I’m so late to have known. 
Here is a photo of him doing live painting at a store’s window. (photo credit provided)
Photo credit; http://www.flickr.com/photos/haiku_girl/6454230703/in/photostream/
Google doodlers honor Jewish-Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser with this google doodle depicting the artist’s use of irregular forms and fetish of incorporating natural features of the landscape into architecture. Hundertwasser called straight lines “the devil’s tools” thus most of his painting and architectural work would create illusions of being uneven as seen below. These are the windows of the district heating plant in Vienna.
During my visit (along with my daughter) at the KunstHausWien, we viewed an exhibition (sorry, memory gap) of two other artists. Photo-taking isn’t allowed inside the galleries so I can only share these. KunstHausWien is the only museum that holds a permanent exhibition of Hundertwasser’s works.
Daughter at the stairs, notice the irregularities of the tiles and the random colored ones, a typical Hundertwasser feature.
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Colorful Weekend, Kids in Doodles
Admittedly, I know more about Frida Kahlo than his better half, Diego Rivera, since Kahlo is a frequent face in the Viennese art scene. So for today’s google doodle I tried to learn more about him.
Diego Rivera’s talent was seen earlier on, when he was about three-years-old. After the death of his twin brother, he started painting on the walls of their house. His supportive parents saw this opportunity as a means of growth and bought chalkboards and canvas for him to use. Rivera would grow to be one of Mexico’s famous fresco (murals painted on plaster on walls and ceilings) painters.
Rivera witnessed the beginning of cubism in paintings during his stay in Paris with more famous painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque leading the movement. Then heavily influenced by Paul Cezanne, Rivera took on to his murals/frescoes colors reminiscent of the artist’s works.
In the above image, google doodlers successfully painted the story of Rivera and of his country, Mexico. Seen in blue is Rivera himself painting a part of the letter G (sun) as seen in his work here. The whole doodle are compositions taken from other murals of Rivera that can be seen in Mexico – a culture in those murals was thus retold in this doodle for us to see. As what Rivera once said, “Art is the universal language and it belongs to all Mankind.” Doodlers were able to show the world Rivera’s art as he wanted it to be.
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