BEAUTY: Drawing For Halloween--Ariane Müller

Artist Ariane Müller just showed her wonderful skeletons at Schiefe Zähne Gallery in Berlin. Her press release read:

"For the last three years I have been working on comedy, and on a big rolling laughter I had envisioned feminism could be. Then maybe out of biographical reasons this summer I started to draw other places where gender is not discernible or only because of individual choices. It also started with the anger I felt seeing a 17th century moralistic image of damnation of a woman being painted as a skeleton, and my wish was to surround her with other people so as to wish her well somewhere."

https://arianemueller.org/

BEAUTY: Art--Alan McGowan

The following stunning suite of untitled figurative sketches is by Scottish artist Alan McGowan. His extremely loose style seems to be propelled by the materials and medium he works in... one gets the impression that simply pushing the oil pastels around, giving free reign to the charcoal, and feeling it all gliding or scribing onto the paper is immensely satisfying. Creating them must be as exciting as it is to behold the results. I love the meandering, squiggly lines that seem to orbit these figures, or to spill out of the solid bodies themselves. These forms border on the sublimely abstract.


http://www.alanmcgowan.com/