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Eye to the Sky by Michael White
This plywood structure worked as a massive canopy, providing shade while leaving openings to look up at the sky.
It was designed to be a "living room" for the deep desert and featured a series of curved plywood seating around a central sculpture.
This was installed during Burning Man 2025 in Nevada, USA.
CONVERGENCE (Number 10)
Jackson Pollock
1952Enamel & Oil on Canvas393.7 x 237.5 cm
Jackson Pollock
1952Enamel & Oil on Canvas393.7 x 237.5 cm
Abstract painter Jackson Pollock's most famous work was a painting entitled Convergence, which was a collage of colors splattered on a canvas that created masterful shapes and lines that evoke emotions and attack the eye. The painting was created in 1952, and is oil on canvas; 93.5 inches by 155 inches (Karmel, 1999). With Pollock's brushstrokes he was able to make handy use of colors, lines, textures, lights, and contrasting shapes. This painting is enormous and its size can only really be appreciated in person. In 1964, puzzle producing company, Springbok Editions, released Convergence (Inspired by Pollock's painting) the jigsaw puzzle. It was a 340-piece puzzle that they promoted as "the world's most difficult puzzle". The impact of Pollock's Convergence was evident in 1965 when hundreds of thousands of Americans purchased the jigsaw puzzle.
Jackson Pollock's style of painting, as exemplified by Convergence, is an important, innovative development in the history of painting. At the time of the painting, the United States took very seriously the threat of Communism and the cold war with Russia. Convergence was the embodiment of free speech and freedom of expression. Pollock threw mud in the face of convention and rebelled against the constraints of society's oppression. It was everything that America stood for all wrapped up in a messy, but deep package. On that same note, some of Pollock's works were even sponsored by the Congress for Cultural Freedom (an anti-communist advocacy group founded in 1950), which was backed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (Karmel, 1999). The CIA appreciated Pollock's style, because it steered clear of social realism and overt political gestures. Pollock's abstract work was hard to decipher, but his rebellious nature and expressions of freedom were clearly evident.
(text lifted from https://www.jackson-pollock.org/convergence.jsp)
MUSHROOMS (OBST)
Yayoi Kusama
2003
Acrylic on Canvas
24.2 x 33.3 cm
Affectionately referred to by some as “the princess of polka dots”, Yayoi Kusama channelled childhood hallucinations of flowers speaking to her into a life of conceptual art infused with Feminism, Minimalism, Surrealism, Art Brut, Pop Art, and Abstract Expressionism. Today she is the world’s top-selling female artist.
“A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colorful, senseless and unknowing. Polka dots can’t stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka dots become movement…polka-dots are a way to infinity” - Yayoi Kusama
Pyramid of Skulls
Paul Cézanne
c 1901
Oil on Canvas
15 in. x 17.9 in.
The Pyramid of Skulls is one of the later works of French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne, who later in his life had lived in isolation and was preoccupied with the theme of death as can be seen in a number of still life paintings he made between 1898 to 1905. Some say, this is also possibly influenced strongly by the death of his mother in October 1897. Cézanne is also known as the Father of Modern Art because he showed how free art could really be by encouraging artists to explore color, shape and space without needing to make sense in a traditional way. He also bridged the way from 19th Century Impressionism and 20th Century Cubism. Renowned artists Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso once remarked, "He is the father of us all."
One of T, The Imagine Table
One of T is the design house of Tony Gonzales and his late wife Tes Pasola. One of T is indeed one of the best in Filipino design and craftsmanship when it comes to creating unique furniture pieces. With the use of wood and paper, the works of One of T have gained global recognition through decades. Featured in the photo above is The Imagine Table, a hardwood coffee table that contains all the lyrics to John Lennon's iconic song Imagine, which was meticulously hand-carved into the wood. For more works and designs from One of T, you can check out their Instagram and Facebook pages linked below.
One of T Instagram
Bansky, The Little Girl With The Balloon, London, 2002
Source: Dominic Robinson
Bansky is the most famous street artist in the world. The anonymous artist has been creating works of art all over the world for more than 23 years. The primary characterization of his work? Its ability to provoke. The British artist works mainly with spray cans and stencils that he prepares before he begins painting. In 2002, he created one of his most recognisable works, The Little Girl with a Balloon, in London. This little girl in a black dress lets her balloon fly away, and Banksy writes next to the tag “There is always hope”. It’s his way of saying that we should never give up even when everything seems to be at its worst. In 2018, during an auction for the silkscreened version, the work self-destructed a few seconds after the auctioneer’s hammer hit. This is one of the biggest artistic scandals.
Pagdiriwang" by National Artist, Jose T. Joya. The largest abstract painting in the Philippines. Painted onsite by Joya himself as no entrances at PICC could fit this painting, having dimensions of 5.5m x 7m. The painting was made in 1976.
Photography by Galen Oakes
At Burning Man, in 2017, an interactive art installation by the name of Ilumina was displayed for the first time.
The 37-foot tall sculpture by Pablo Gonzalez Vargas, illuminated the Nevada desert and attracted visitors who were drawn to its glow.
Ilumina allowed visitors to take part in an immersive three-minute long meditation and flow exercise that ushers them into a state of coherence and deep harmony with themselves, fellow participants, and the universe through a proprietary merger of modern technology and ancient design wisdom.
Sensors provided by the HeartMath Institute measure the visitors collective state of coherence, which in turn activates the sculpture’s stunning lightshow and soundscape. Watch the video below to see Ilumina in action.
EVERYDAY
by Mike Winkelmann (aka Beeple)
2021
NFT
21,069 x 21,069 pixels (316,939,910 bytes)
This Beeple’s artwork was the most expensive sold NFT-art until the end of 2021. “Everyday” NFT is a painting that collects all 5,000 images he drew over 5,000 days in a row. This unique piece was auctioned by the famous Christie house for the tidy sum of $69 million. This NFT was bought by Vignesh Sundaresan who forestalled Justin Sun, founder of Tron.
It is now the second most expensive NFT bought. The most expensive one is called "Merge" by the artist Pak. His NFT sold for $91.8 million dollars. However, te difference lies upon the face that this NFT was not bought by one, but rather 29,983 people, being split into 312,686 coins distributed to buyers.
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