Yao Lu is a digital artist who creates beautiful landscape images in the style of traditional Chinese paintings – beautiful mountain and water scenes are shrouded in could and mist, eliciting serene and romantic feelings. But a closer look at these images reveals that all is not as it seems. The images are digital composites [...]
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Clever or Effective? The Work of Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan’s art examines the massiveness of our consumption and its effects. In his artist’s statement he says “The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive kind of mob mentality. Collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable act of taking, but we each are anonymous and no one is in charge or accountable for [...]
Beauty or Garbage?
Edward Burtynsky knows what to do with a dump. He brings it to us photographed with architectural symmetry and precision. He creates a formal beauty out of garbage. Burtynsky has made it his life’s work to create images of the imprint that Man leaves on the world. Be it the wounds on the earth created [...]
