There's A Sameness In Our Difference

ColoursPedia is pleased to present new works from Australian founded creative person Matt Doust. An carried out portraitist, Doust’s hyper-realistic paintings explore the notion of identity through the external betrayals of the body. The artist’s dramatic human country side stap into the subtle revelations of physical sign, drawing the viewer’s attention to the subject’s minutest minutia. At times voyeuristic, these larger than life portraits are both alienating and intimate. Undeniably beautiful, they appear haunted and resonate with a provocative sense of discomfort. Doust sketches on our anxiety and fascination when faced with the other in this unfamiliar proximity and scale, forcing monumental revelations of intimacy upon us.

The paintings express a sense of irreconcilable distances: those between the well known and the alien, the self and the other – and yet do so somehow by uniting this sense of estrangement with a feeling of intimacy. While portraiture is ostensibly a study of the target subject, Doust reveals that it is as much about the artist’s selective revelation, and the viewer’s projections, as it is about the interior inhabits of those revealed. The artist’s haunting portraits remain evasive alloys of the glimpsed and the unknown, and appear to instigate an interminable yearning in the viewer to “possess” the inward motivations of the vague sitters. These portraits reveal certain thing of the yearn for sameness, and this desire’s coexistence with the estrangement of manifest distinction, in our distributed seek for human attachment.

Matt Doust captures the fleeting and intangible impressions of persona, those we read from the body, and immortalizes them in portraiture. The artist’s proficiency to arrest the attractive and the odd simultaneously, and his appreciation of imperfect perfection, outcomes in portraits that are as much about absentia as they are about what is manifest. Upon glimpsing Doust’s paintings, we are strangely cognizant of the failure of our own holistic effects, and of ourincompetence to arrest the “truth” of the other. possibly the work’s subtle melancholy comes from this realization of our own covetous disappointment: the subject is habitually slightly afterour grab. These portraits supply us with a uncommon opening to slowly excavate the intimacies of the body: seeking for some sense of “truth”, communion, or revelation in the body material.Doust captures what stirs under the coverings of his topics. With large mechanical facility, and aauthentically unparalleled refinement and minutia, he is able to animate an inanimate exteriorwith an evasive internal life.

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This week we’re bringing you another talented artist as part of our partnership with premiere website building platform Made With Color. Each week we bring you some of the most exciting artists and designers working today who are using Made With Color to create clean and sleek websites. Made With Color sites aren’t just easy on the eyes but feature powerful yet simple backend which allows anyone to create a professional site with just a few clicks.This week we are excited to share the layered and resin coated paintings of Kansas based painter Kent Michael Smith.

Composed of hovering masses of suspended geometric forms which produce both faux and literal shadows onto each other as well as onto the autonomous backgrounds; Kent Michael Smith’s paintings thrive within a realm of ambiguous representation. Likewise, the productions of the works are of equal conflict. On one hand they attempt to prescribe to a historical notion of painting that utilizes rendering properties of tinting and tone, while simultaneously producing a colored flatness of cut-paper collage…all floating on top of an often organic background.

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Anastasia Durasova is a well known Russian body decorator and make up artist.
She started her vocation in Siberian provincial town. At the beginning it was just a interest and she tried her art on her friend's bodies. Anastasia's endless love for art conveyed her to Moscow. For the past couple of years she've been working hard in Moscow. She had been cooperating with well known Russian photographers and has a large-scale experience working at latest trend shows, videos, advertisements and financial projects. She also organizes workshops on make up,and of course, she does what she loves most.

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After almost 8 months of checking London-based artist Alexander Farto aka Vhils reveals this absurdly unbelievable procedure for embedding explosives just beneath the exterior of partitions to disclose artwork. As far as art proceeds this is one of the most exclusive things I've came across this year, and my hunch is you’ll glimpse it everywhere in a two some of hours.

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To create these patterned carpets, Dutch artist Suzan Drummen uses diverse materials like mirrors, precious stones, metal pieces, and more. Each object is meticulously hand-placed, and to reach certain areas it is like playing a game of Twister.

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My name is Rajacenna (I'm the only one with that name on this planet XD) I'm 18 years old and I live in the Netherlands. I'm a positive person and I always laugh. I love people who are creative and see the world from a different kind of view.

My heroes are CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow and peter pan inside I will always stay a child for ever . see my realistic drawings as a challenge to draw better every time that I make a new drawing. The things that I really wanna do in the future is making more fantasy art and creative drawings. I have so many ideas in my mind that I wanna draw. I wanna make art that really comes from my heart. My dream is to make art that gives other people hope or something where you can look at and escape reality for a moment. I still have a long way to go..
 
I see my realistic drawings as a challenge to draw better every time that I make a new drawing. The things that I really wanna do in the future is making more fantasy art and creative drawings. I have so many ideas in my mind that I wanna draw. I wanna make art that really comes from my heart. My dream is to make art that gives other people hope or something where you can look at and escape reality for a moment. I still have a long way to go.

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