Supakitch & Koralie

Its been a stressful few weeks here at camp VisArts. From organizing the VisArts Exhibition of Staff & Student Artworks, to getting ourselves ready for our annual Foreign Trip to Madrid, we've been so busy that we've almost completely forgotten about our wonderful Blog!
So it was lovely to find a video to remind us of how brilliant the visual arts can be, and its inspired this new blog post.


SUPAKITCH & KORALIE "Euphorie" Paris from Raphaël Hache on Vimeo.

Supakitch & Koralie are French street artists renowned for creating exquisite videos such as these, which show the creative process behind their exceptional work.  A couple both professionally and personally, the duo are well known for their intricate designs which incorporate paper work and more traditional painting to create interwoven images of the fantastical and surreal.

They typically use the same two characters, SupalCapone (the fox figure) and Koralie's Geishka (the spelling is intentional!) who often adapt to their context/setting. Take this video from Mexico, where the couple added details from Mexican culture to their usual designs, giving the Geishka a luchador mask and portraying SupalCapone as a revolutionary.


SUPAKITCH et KORALIE from Filmaciones de la Ciudad on Vimeo.

The pair have recently branched into more traditional art spaces, designing pieces specifically for display in art galleries. For example, they painted a wall at the Världskultur Museum in Sweden - their progress was documented in the video below, and it's arguably one of their best and most intricate works.



You can find more information on the duo at their respective websites, or if you find yourself in New York, why not visit their studio!
supakitch.com
koralie.net

Turning Science into Art

This week I've been doing alot of research about the relationship between art and science, and in particular the ways in which the lines between these two apparent polar opposites can very easily become blurred. To most people this seems a little far fetched, but if you take a closer look at the subject you begin to see the ways in which they have inspired one another throughout the centuries. From Renaissance studies of the anatomy to the landscape artists that accompanied Captain Cook on his voyages around the world in the 18th century, artists have been turning scientific imagery into art for years.

Leonardo Da Vinci's detailed drawings of the shoulder muscles, bones and tendons.

A perfect example of this intriguing relationship is the video below, released by NASA earlier this week and created by a team of astronauts currently serving on the International Space Station. The piece is a time-lapse video captured during a fly-over of Earth, and shows some amazing footage of a number of different light shows, both natural and man-made. Keep an eye out for the lightning storms, which are particularly awesome!


Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.

Art and Fashion

Visual Arts is not just about art, exhibitions and galleries. It’s about the celebration of creativity, design and beauty in all its various forms. Fashion is just one of those many forms; As a piece of design in itself and as another medium through which more ‘traditional’ art works find a new voice.

When one tries to think of an example of how art works find new expression through clothes, one automatically conjures up images of the 60s when Op Art and Pop Art designs exploded into the fashion scene.

Thanks to the availability of sythentic fabrics, mass reproduction and a new culture of consumer goods fashion took a whole new turn.

With the arrival of British mod fashion in America and  The Responsive Eye exhibition in New York which showcased Bridget Reily’s black and white geometrically abstract art works although not wanted by the artist a new explosion of geometrically patterned clothing and accessories became de riguer.

Pop Artists also found a new mouthpiece in commercial fashion with iconic, mass produced artworks by artists such as Andy Warhol  being printed onto clothing.

One must not forget the Yves Saint Lauren’s Mondrian Dress of 1965 which literally turned blurred the lines between clothing and canvas.

For a more contemporary example of how art and fashion are closely interlinked look no further than Amateur Couture, an online blog who’s tagline is ‘I love fashion and fashion loves art.’ Her posts consist of cleverly chosen images of artworks and pieces of fashion that correspond on a certain theme or design. Her artistic eye is impressive and her blog helps to show how fashion and art are inter-relatable and interdependent.

http://www.amateurcouture.com/

You should also check out The Sartorialist. His renowned photographical documentation of fashion, from the people he meets daily to the high-end fashion shows, is inspiring. His fascination with the tiny details of fashion design, such as the turn of a trouser cuff, places fashion in its own artistic arena.

http://www.thesartorialist.com/

Happy Fashion Finding, 

:)

Image Sources:

1) http://www.op-art.co.uk/op-art-fashion/

2)http://www.plastic-society.com/the-velvet-underground-nico-andy-warhol-rare-60s-print-t-shirt-i21.html

3) http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/C.I.69.23

4-6) http://www.amateurcouture.com/

7)http://www.thesartorialist.com/