BEAUTY: Painting--The Luthier

An artist who goes only by the name The Luthier creates stunning images of people playing lutes. Their works look like Renaissance imagery complete with a copious amount of flowers and citrus fruits. But look at the mix of those sumptuous patterns and saturated colors. Just gorgeous.

The Luthier site says:
"Who can undo What time hath done? Who can win back the wind? Reckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep? We Can

I am The Luthier. I build lutes using acrylic, print, machine learning, digital manipulation, digital painting and collage."

The Luthier website shows work available to purchase!
https://www.theluthier.art/

Something to consider...

Stoic Mike (previously here) tells it like it is.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNG9LfUJXhM/

http://ithoughtso.net/

In the dream world...

As a lifelong dreamer, who has kept a dream journal since I was thirteen and studied Jungian dream analysis, this is particularly poignant...

By Michael Lipsey, previously here.

https://stoicmike.tumblr.com/
http://ithoughtso.net/

BEAUTY: Digital Art--Maggie Taylor

Maggie Taylor's marvelous digital manipulations utilize her own photography with antique, vintage, and found imagery. The results are surreal and delightful.

Top to bottom: All the better; April is the cruelest month; Better say nothing at all; Dreaming with open eyes; Star Gazer; The alchemist's chamber; The burden of dreams 2; The burden of dreams 1; The menagerie; The philosopher's study; The same story; The secret

https://maggietaylor.com/

And watch this delightful video where Maggie shows her process. She walks us through the creation of The same story and The menagerie.

Consequences

More Wisdom From Michael Lipsey

More wisdom from epigrammatist and aphorist Michael Lipsey (previously here and here).

https://stoicmike.tumblr.com/
http://ithoughtso.net/

BEAUTY: Digital Collage--Luis Toledo

Luis Toledo. Graphic artist. Maximalism.

"Death, spirituality, necessity, beginning and end.
Death is just one more step in which we abandon the skin to continue our existence with another form. The liberating end. Another aspect of life, so vital and necessary as life itself.
The mirror that our eye escapes from, but nevertheless, charges against without remedy in these images.
The other side becomes visible, evident, melted with the reality from which was never separated.
Skulls, skeletons, insects, fungus, bodies with no face and solitaries expressions, abstract and geometric forms, all in an unmaterialized arsenal.
The reality ( material ) is obvious, monotonous and predictable. It is easy than to understand the fascination of the author for the none-material and spiritual part of life and how they are related and represented.

Time, past, present and future and eternity.
The definitive illusion follows its path in a clock-time rhythm.
We run desperate after each second trying to stop it, trap it, take it, use it. “ Time is gold” they say, but in reality is only a measure like weight or height. Your life is not the time that has been until the moment, of course not. It is necessary that we are conscious of the present moment, taste it, enjoy it.
This is an idea that is developed in each work with fraction complexity inviting the spectator to stop and appreciate with care each detail.
An attention call for the consumer society, and even more, for the constant images designed to use ans throw. Something that the author calls out : “ hurry kills”.
The brief instant becomes the key of eternity.
The use if images and aesthetics picked up from the past, mixed with abstract and contemporary forms, transport us into a un-timed territory; and in here, present, past and future mix in a symbolic reality."

Top to bottom: Offering Ritual; Portrait; Thangka; The Secret; Logic of a Dream; The Mushroom Garden

http://laprisamata.es/

BEAUTY: Illustration--Matt Dixon

Normally Matt Dixon is an illustrator working in the gaming industry, creating goblins and trolls, but in his spare time, he has created a world of lonely little robot children who valiantly try to find the joy in life. Of course his works are allegorical, showing the human condition and how we all are really, when all is said and done, like little kids, just trying to find something or someone to get us through.

His first collection of robot images, TRANSMISSIONS can be purchased here:

http://mattdixon.bigcartel.com/product/transmissions

And Volume 2 of TRANSMISSIONS can be purchased here:

http://mattdixon.bigcartel.com/product/transmissions-2-robot-art-by-matt-dixon-pre-order

http://www.mattdixon.co.uk/