“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”
– René Magritte
REVERIE
A stunning photo of a peacefully sleeping swan on the river.
This beautiful Cadillac was owned by a friend of Paul’s who commissioned him to recreate it on canvas in his own unique super realistic style.
From Howard Kingsnorth’s extensive body of atmospheric photographs of London, this is no. 2 from his stunning sunrise series, inspired by Turner.
Taken from the black dancer series, Bronwyn Kidd has a brilliant ability to create light and form in these stunning portraits.
Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup cans first made their appearance six years earlier when he produced thirty-two canvases each with a different variety of soup. The semi-mechanized process he used to create his works is something that is characterized with Warhol. He did many different variations of the Campbell’s Soup cans, contorting them and altering their shape, but it is the classic ones that remain the most sought after and continue to bring in new collectors.
In Cloud Banks, Mike repurposes the original Crystal Palace and turns it into a cloud factory. Here, Mike builds a virtual world out of sheer creativity. Small white-clothed men haul clouds down into cloud vitrines, taking orders from a cloud controller above. There are trains, onlookers, statues even ornately conceived weather apparatus. Its a fantastical, surreal image of the weather from one of Britain’s most creative illustrators.
Blanketed in untouched snow, this soft and idyllic shot of mountainous life sees a church rise well above the clouds. Its red-tiled roof presents a striking contrast against the white snow and blue sky. One can almost sense the silence and calming sense of both community and religiosity.
The musical romanticism that pervades this photograph is added to by the stunning textures of the walls as they slowly fade with time.
Douglas Kirkland has been at the cutting edge of fashion, photojournalism and portraiture, working for the world’s most reputable magazines, for more than 50 years. As a young photographer in 1961 he was assigned to shoot Marylin Monroe and during several hours in a closed studio one night, captured a stunning portfolio of alluring and intimate images that survive to this day as a testament to her beauty and vulnerability.