Caia Koopman
The very pretty pop surrealist art of Caia Koopman:
You can see more of Caia’s art at her site.
I actually got a card case featuring Caia’s art for Christmas, I love it dearly and never use it.
Tags: animals, day of the dead, environmentalism, pop surrealism
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My favorite magazine is “The New Yorker” and, last month, they published a very interesting article on Vincent Van Gogh. (An excerpt is here: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/04/100104fa_fact_gopnik)
In the article, the author connects Vincent’s painting to his life: his consuming (and unsuccessful) desire for artistic community; his ideas as expressed in his writing; and his failed friendship with Gaugin. The article notes, with general approval, the new theory by two German scholars that the myth of Vincent cutting off his ear isn’t true; in actual fact, it was severed by a sword during a fight with his friend Gaugin.
Having known many artists (and lived with one for 20 years), I view this new theory as more plausible than the myth.
^Shybiker is right. Most of the myths about him are quite a few degrees off, but he’s got a really interesting history if you read up on him. I did a whole paper just concerning how his mental and physical states could be traced through his artwork. Great fun, haha. Love the site, btw.
I’m not sure if I do believe that version of the story, where Gauguin cut that part of his ear off with a sword.
I don’t know much about it, but it doesn’t seem more plausible at face value than him having done it itself in a fit of guilt/self-loathing.
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