Historium Art. Barthel Beham.

 

Barthel Beham (or Bartel) (1502–1540) was a German engraver, miniaturist, and painter.

Biography

The younger brother of Hans Sebald Beham, he was born into a family of artists in Nuremberg. Learning his art from his elder brother, and Albrecht Dürer, he was particularly active as an engraver during the 1520s, creating tiny works of magnificent detail, positioning him in the German printmaking school known as the "Little Masters". He was also fascinated with antiquity and may have worked with Marcantonio Raimondi in Bologna and Rome at some time in his career.

In 1525, along with his brother and Georg Pencz, the so-called "godless painters", he was banished from Lutheran Nuremberg for asserting his disbelief in baptism, Christ, or transubstantiation. Although later pardoned, he moved to Catholic Munich to work for the Bavarian dukes William IV and Ludwig X. Whilst there, his exceptional talent established him as one of Germany's principal portrait painters, favoured by distinguished patrons such as Emperor Charles V.

According to Joachim von Sandrart, he died in Italy during a trip under the patronage of Duke William.

Gallery

Judith, 1525  ·  Engraving in black on ivory laid paper 

Portrait of the goldsmith Jörg Herz, c. 1525

Vanity, 1540, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Barthel Beham’s paintings give us a window into life in 16th century Germany. As with Holbein, his portraits are direct and grounded in realism, unlike Holbein, his sitters are primarily German merchants and clergy and stylistically act as a bridge between Holbein and Cranach.

German fashions from this time are truly unique. Women sported structured Wulsts and Steuchlein that covered their hair and chin as well as puffed linens banded along the arms. Men wore shaped beards, puff and slash velvets, silks, leathers and furs. Both sexes would sport the elaborately gold embroidered and structured banding along the necklines and oversized gold chains as made famous by Holbein’s portrait of Anne of Cleves.

Born in 1502 in Nuremberg Germany, Barthel was born into an artistic family. His brother Hans was a celebrated engraver and Barthel too began principally as an engraver, working alongside his brother and, likely, Albrecht Dürer.He, Hans and other artists would be referred to as ‘The little Masters’ for their innovative engraved manuscripts and books.

Germany, like much of Northern Europe, was part of the Holy Roman Empire and cities were brimming with artists, philosophers, theologians and merchants who were drawn to the burgeoning Renaissance and the electric energy of the Reformation taking shape there.

By the 1520’s artists had largely aligned themselves with Lutheran and Protestant ideologies, clashing with the crown and the church. Huge number of them fled to England or elsewhere where they could find nobles to paint and be free of persecution. Barthel himself was exiled for his Lutheran beliefs.

Portraits in order of appearance:

Hans Urmiller And son

1525

Margaret Urmiller neé Schwabb

and daughter

1524

Unidentified woman with Parrot

1527

Ruprecht Stüpf

1528

Herzog Wilhelm von Bayern

1533

Ursula Rudolph

1528

Anna Scheit

1528

Magdalena Pittrichin

1528

Chancellor Leonhard von Eck

1527

Jakobäa von Baden

1530

Unidentified woman

1527

‘31 year old Lady’

1535

Magdalena Neudorffer

1527

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Boubou Niang, widely known as Boubou Design, is a celebrated artist from Senegal, famous for his inventive painting

This artist creates masterpiece using only natural materials

Painting

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She has gained popularity on Instagram for her unique and mesmerizing water illusion cakes. Artist: @oh.honeycake

Everything is cake Artist @redrosecake_tubageckil

Creepy or cool Artist @_nekita_

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Creative artwork

Incredible & creative designs Artist @atefe_kabiri_hairstylist

This artist is using his imagination and shadows to create these amazing artworks. Artist- @vincent_bal

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Andrew Scott is most well known for his viral frame alterations, which have amassed hundreds of millions of views on social media.

Whether through breaking, shattering, burning, threading, tearing or any other innovative technique, Andrew brings the subjects in his artwork to life. By breaking the fourth wall and making the frame part of the artwork itself, Andrew continually bends artistic convention in innovative and surprising ways.

Artist: @andrewscott_art

TOKYO Drawing With Coin Safi @ursulolita 

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Insane grass art

When gadjets can be artisitic tool

Painting on ice floats.Created with earth, charcoal, and chalk

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Drawing 4 portrets simultaneously

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He painted so beautiful using his clothes

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Transforming walls into masterpieces

Street art

This guy needs no brush to create the perfect painting

Turning waste into art by Artist DENİZ SAĞDIÇ

 

While most artists use graphite or paint to render realistic portraits, others find ways to use more unconventional materials. Turkish multimedia artist Deniz Sağdıç has developed a diverse body of work by upcycling various found fabrics. Denim Skin and Ready Remade are two ongoing projects in which she uses scraps of denim to render highly realistic and detailed portraits of men and women.

To do this, Sağdıç collects numerous denim materials in a variety of blue hues. She then cuts the fabric into squares, rectangles, or long strips and applies them to a canvas or board. The way in which the artist arranges each individual piece is similar to traditional media, in which the paler shades are used in more illuminated areas of the face, and the darker pieces are used for the shadows. This combination of modeling and texture gives these portraits a highly tactile and three-dimensional quality that is immediately striking. However, Sağdıç does not want to waste any part of her found materials, so while some pieces are made entirely out of flat swatches, others feature just the waistband and belt loops, or just the section with the button closure.

Turkish artist Deniz Sağdıç upcycles found denim fabric by using them to make realistic portraits.

Deniz Sağdıç: Website | Facebook | Instagram

MARGHERITA COLE

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Augmented reality art: opportunities and examples for artists and creatives

 

By Ainars Klavins 

Augmented reality offers a new space for artists to express themselves, complement their artworks, or surround their work with interactive experiences. But, AR is not for the weary! It is for the curious, experimental, and pioneering. It is for creatives who are ready to jump into the unknown and get comfortable pursuing and establishing themselves and their art within an unmanned territory.

Since Overly was born, we’ve worked on numerous art projects for museums and individuals. We’ve also followed the sector’s happenings across the globe and have seen so many innovative ideas and new artists pop-up. Yet, the general public is still getting familiar with this tech, which means that there are vast opportunities for those new to merging art with technologies. Below, I’ll bust a couple of myths about using AR and offer inspiration and examples that can drive your imagination for teching-up your artworks — as long as you’re up for it.

You don’t have to hone your IT skills to become an augmented reality artist

I wanted to start with the above point, because, in my experience, artists often think that they need to be gurus of traditional art and tech-innate at the same time. This is absolutely not the case, because:

1. There are different forms of augmented reality, including video and photo overlays. There are also platforms such as Overly app that allow people with no tech skills to put together their artworks with digital media. Bridging the gap between tech and art, such platforms help artists exploit basic levels of AR
2. If you want to create animated and 3D experiences — collaborate. A lot of projects that we deliver are based on partnerships. There are illustrators, animators, audio producers, multimedia artists, videographers, 3D designers, and so the list goes on. It is usually multimedia artists who have a background in digital design or contemporary art that go it alone. Still, they need to find partners who provide augmented reality hosting services that meet their needs, which again means that you can never really go alone with this form of ARt
3. Traditional artworks, even old-school paintings can serve as augmented reality markers. The art piece itself doesn’t have to be affected by its new augmented reality layer.

You do not have to pay a lot of money to digitize your ideas with augmented reality

This is another perception that is commonly associated with new technologies, including augmented reality. If we are talking about mobile augmented reality, I can say with confidence that you could host a whole exhibition for a couple of hundred bucks per month. 

 

What costs, admittedly, in augmented reality is the creation of content. I’ve written a blog about AR marketing budgets, which applies pretty much to any sector. Even if you look at our pricing plan, you will see that the hosting services won’t break the bank. What costs is the content you want to create for augmented reality. That, however, depends on the type of collaboration and rate you have with your AR content creator, or what resources and time you are spending to create the content yourself. Here are 14 different types of content that you can create and retrieve using Overly app. 

Two types of mobile augmented reality art: marker-based and markerless

I will give you inspo examples for each approach below. If you want in-depth understanding, you can read our blog on the differences between these terms to understand how marker-based and markerless AR works. But just to summarize, marker-based AR experience will be attached to another physical piece of content. This would most likely be an artwork or an exhibition promo. Markerless, on the other hand, would represent the whole experience, with digital content being placed based on GPS coordinates.

Augmented reality ideas for art projects

Awesome animated art through augmented reality

An excellent example of animated paintings comes from Mandy Sobo. You can find her on Instagram at @badportraits, although I assure you that “bad portraits” is precisely what you will not find on her feed.

 

Mandy is a visual artist, who works on a lot of different ideas, but her celebrity portrait exhibitions include augmented reality animations. Her work looks incredible without AR, but for those who enjoy interaction, it’s an awesome added value to see different AR stories that she’s created for her portraits. I really suggest you check out her Instagram.

Here is another example of animated artworks. In this news piece, you will see quite a few different animation approaches for inspiration.

Just to finish off this section, remember, animations can be both 2D and 3D, you just have to decide on what tells your story best and what resources you have. Here’s an example of 3D AR experiences.

Easy video AR, featuring author stories or behind the scenes

As mentioned at the beginning, there is no need to overcomplicate things at first. Something that AR is great at is showcasing video content in interactive ways.

 

Often, you may already have a video that could go with an artwork — it may be an interview on its meaning, it may be an interview with the author in general or some behind-the-scenes snapshot. You could even collate a behind-the-scenes image gallery, which is pretty simple to do but will give extra information to people exploring your art.

 

Last year we delivered an AR project that brought to life children’s poems. It featured animations, but there were also pieces that retrieved author stories in a form of basic head and shoulders interviews about their art piece. Here is a snapshot of the exhibition and you will be able to spot at 30 seconds how simple the interview files were. This example combines both animation and video, but it doesn’t have to be the case. You can just go for video.

More information through text and images in AR

Another simple way of implementing AR in your work is to share written stories about each piece. You may reveal a painting’s meaning through written information or tell a story about featured personalities. Or you could also let other art lovers know what you used to create the colors, what fabric and frame you chose.

 

For people who appreciate art and attend exhibitions, all this information will be of interest, and placing it within AR will allow you to create no interferences with the exhibition design, such as setting up screens, etc. Here is just one example of how this may look.

Bringing 3D objects to life for entertainment and education

I feel like the above examples are the most straightforward approach because these are all about bringing markers to life that are flat. However, you may be creating magnificent sculptures or decorating 3D objects. Augmented reality can bring those to life as well, to entertain and even to educate.

 

Here is an example of a large object — a car, which was brought to life for educational purposes at the Riga Motormuseum. This can give you a taste of how objects can be brought to life, and the layers created 1:1 to overlay the original piece. Note that this may require some extra collaborators to help.

Markerless augmented reality art can get you in Louvre

When it comes to markerless augmented reality, the digital content will most probably be your stand-alone artwork. I do think that this is of most interest for contemporary, digital artists and designers, whose art is already created and hosted digitally. Augmented reality allows those digital pieces to be brought to real-life settings through people’s mobile screens. An excellent example here is from Marjan Moghaddam below on how 3D virtual sculptures fit into a museum setting.

Another artist I’d like to highlight in this context is Gints Gabrāns, the author of augmented reality art application SAN.app. Thanks to the creative and unique freedom that augmented reality offers, he has placed his work in some of the world’s most famous museums. No approval necessary. As Gints explains: “If I was to place a physical sculpture somewhere, I would need to abide by the local laws, sign commercial contracts, or coordinate my activities with local councils and governments. When I initially started to create projects in SAN, the whole world was my playground. “

AR art can add layers to your city’s walls

As we’ve gotten out of the exhibition mindset and gotten ourselves more into the “world is your oyster” mentality. I would like to finish off with one of the booming augmented reality art forms, which is AR graffitis and augmented city objects and posters.

 

While street artists are the leaders in taking up augmented reality, just for the sake of something different, I would like to bring forward an example from the marketing world, where Burger King burnt their competitors’ ads in AR. This just shows that, first of all, AR doesn’t need any permissions, and secondly, it can interact with existing art.

To finish off, I just want to emphasize that one of the challenges for augmented reality across all sectors is quality content. I see that artists can address this issue using their creative nature to build valuable experiences. That’s why I hope this blog helped to clarify some of the options for those who want to merge tech with art and were looking for ideas. If you do have something to add or an artist, you wish we’d feature, leave a comment below or connect with me on LinkedIn.

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Man draws with different amazing products

 

This man draws with different amazing products (see video below)