Aix-en-Provence, a small exotic city in the south of France, is also a heavenly place, with beautiful scenery, and boasts an art city.

Textile designer Morgane Baroghel Crucq is a native daughter of Aix-en, graduated from ENSCI, then returned to her hometown to establish an independent studio and embark on her own textile design and art career. Her plans that by traditional textiles, in the pursuit of beauty to integrate aesthetics of light, and thinking about the connection between processing and science into her creation.

Stroll in the exquisite and familiar environment, unload the burden, Morgane from scratch to consider and choose her own artistic concept. First, she summarizes the past experimental creation, then begins to explore the combination of processing and material innovation to form a unique personal style with a unique and innovative in the form at the same time, and realization of both aesthetic and practical.

Soon, Morgane chose metal wire as a breakthrough because the metal wire is pure, cold and shiny. Its luster will vary with oxidation. Moreover, it has another merit of maintaining the shape of the design almost forever. Importantly, it can perfectly match textiles, which have contrast but complementary.

Defroting Dunes

Brass, silk

85x120 cm

2020

Morgane added golden metal wire to the traditional textile process, which seemingly simply changed but turned the textile art into 3D three-dimensional, from flat fabric to 3D three-dimensional relief textile art. Although it sacrificed some practicality, it could freely shape the form and make the textile more three-dimensional, colorful and enchanting.

Sand

Hand painted silk, brass

85x65 cm 

2019

Not only has the artistic, good creative or innovation also need to be used in everyday life and business, only make it more practical, art will be more close touch for people. While Morgane's 3 d embossed textile, not just be used in the clothing design but can be used in home decoration, lighting fixtures, and other fields, the perfect balance of aesthetic and practical.

It seems that artistic creation is always like this. A bit of proper change often opens a new door for art. Behind the change is the reflection and summary after the experimental artistic creation process, which is the thinking mode of the artist to break the boundary and frame.

As a talented rising star with unique creativity, Morgane soon showed her talents. She was an award-winner that related craft many times, and won the support of the Foundation of The People's Bank of France in 2016, and partnered with many brands, including Hermes. In 2019, she won the back of the Foundation of Hermes Enterprise. Leads her promising future on the unique artistic cause.

Enjoy More Morgane Baroghel Crucq's Works 

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Perhaps the Chinese people are good at making hard things simple, similar to the chopper of gastronomy, POTS, etc., always use the least amount of tools and complex skills, cooking the food in the way of the highest realm, so is paper art. In the long process, paper carving that had a flash in the pan was dumped by our predecessors, only keep the paper-cut craft, with a pair of scissors and a piece of red paper, cut out the life of every flavor and amorous feelings.

Nowadays, on the one hand, the invention of tools such as engraving knives and printers, and on the other hand, the paper carving is easier to get started than paper cutting. Paper carving is blooming all over the world, and in the hands of artists, paper carving presents incredible visual beauty in a new form.

In terms of complexity, Rogan Brown, an artist specializing in microbial sculpting, has a unique paper carving style. He combines male rationality with extreme sculpture and perfectly presents his sculpted objects' complex structure marvelously with symmetrical aesthetics.

Brown's paper sculptures, inspired by tiny and delicate creatures, include tree moss, cells, bacteria, coral, algae and radiolaria, etc. Focusing on environmental protection in his artwork, but he deliberately downplayed "protection", only through the intricacies of the exquisite design, simply by superb carving techniques, in an almost crazy detail to cut paper sculpture, presenting the gorgeous colors of microbial nature, creating an amazing microscopic world.

Rogan Brown's paper sculpture collections

Beauty in the trash

In collaboration with irisvanherpen, they took my original designs and deconstructed them, adapting them to the human body, turning the static sculpture into a dynamic one that reminds us of the fragile beauty of the natural world and our responsibility to protect them. - Rogan Brown

Beauty in the garbage? Here is an Empyrean dress in collaboration with irisvanherpen, almost unbelievable, by parley global cleaning network parley. TV intercepts and transforms materials made from Marine waste. Beauty in the trash, beauty with a conscience. - Rogan Brown

All images via Google.

I'm glad my work is on COLOSSAL, one of the web's best art and design websites.

Ghost Coral 88*88cm, laser sculpted, hand-painted and hand-mounted. I am grateful to Coralreefimagebank.org for providing free high-resolution photos of the world's coral reefs. Do not forget that we must unite to protect this fragile beauty in this difficult time when the climate and ecological crises that threaten coral reefs continue. - Rogan Brown

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Large platter

‘They say Lightening never strikes twice’

Coloured Porcelain – hand-built Nerikomi platter with solid silver Kintsugi highlights

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, people are getting bored staying at home all day, so today we're delighted to share some eye-pleasing Nerikomi ceramics by Judy McKenzie that you can enjoy from home.  What are the Nerikomi process and the Kintsugi process? Let' learn more.

Porcelain Nerikomi bowl

Sunset Clouds

Colored porcelain

16cm w x 12cm h

Porcelain Nerikomi bowl

Summer Country Walk

Colored porcelain with silver Kintsugi

16cm w x 12cm h

Porcelain Nerikomi bowl

Summer Garden

Colored porcelain with silver Kintsugi

16cm w x 12cm h

Porcelain Nerikomi bowl

Troubled Sky

Colored porcelain with silver Kintsugi

16cm w x 12cm h

A group of four nerikomi bowls

Colored porcelain

Human beings have been making ceramics for nearly ten thousand years. Primitive people knead clay into simple shapes and then fired ceramic. You can say that making ceramics is an almost instinctive creation.

Porcelain Nerikomi bowls with silver Kintsugi

Troubled Sky: Small footed vessel

8cm h x 10cm w

Troubled Sky: Small conical vessel

8cm h x 11.5 cm w

Some people say that pottery is an art made from earth and fire, a simple art. However, for thousands of years, the art of delicate ceramics showed a variety of forms, colors, patterns, and textures with their light hands. Though as the simplest of substances it is, radiating the richest of possibilities.

Porcelain Nerikomi bowls with silver Kintsugi

Sunset Sky: Small footed vessel

8cm h x 10cm w

Sunset Sky: Small conical vessel

8cm h x 11.5 cm w

As an indigenous British artist, and graduated from the royal college of the art learning western art, Judy McKenzie should be a very authentic western artist, but in her creation, she unexpectedly chose from two Oriental ceramics art: Nerikomi and Kintsugi, and make full use of these two characteristics to create ceramic utensils with highly decorative touches.

Porcelain Nerikomi bowls

Summer Garden: Small footed vessel

8cm h x 10cm w

Summer Garden: Small conical vessel

8cm h x 11.5 cm w

The combination of Nerikomi, a handmade technique of creating unique patterns out of colored clay, and Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery, was depicted as a precious scar by Judy McKenzie, a sense of the power and beauty from fragile ceramics.

Porcelain Nerikomi bowls

Blue and Yellow Sky: Small footed vessel

8cm h x 10cm w

Blue and Yellow Sky: Small conical vessel

8cm h x 11.5 cm w

Today we are going to share Nerikomi ceramics by Judy McKenzie. Because it has very mesmerizing colors, a whimsical look, if not in detail, you may probably think it is hand-painted, with various bright colors, but it is not dazzled, also won't make people feeling uncomfortable. Instead, it feasted your eyes, very bright and delights, like beautiful clouds in the sky, a brilliant sunset, or hand-painted abstract paintings.

A grouping of the small conical vessels

Porcelain Nerikomi bowls

All 8cm h x 11.5cm w

The beauty of Nerikomi, the rhyme of utensils, nothing can beat this.

A grouping of the small-footed vessels

Porcelain Nerikomi bowls

All 8cm h x 10cm w

About Nerikomi ceramics:

Nerikomi is a kind of traditional Chinese ceramics process, and it is a shame that the crafts, in the Northern Song Dynasty "Jingkang Change", due to successive years of war gradual decline and getting lost. The main skill feature is using two or more different colors of clay, in the process of production, through the color mixing and twisting, so that the clay presented different colors and patterns, and its cross-section as the surface of the objects, to produce a myriad of patterns and textures on the surface, very decorative and artistic.

A Country Walk grouping

Porcelain Nerikomi bowls

Small footed vessel

8cm h x 10cm w

Small conical vessel

8cm h x 11.5 cm w

Porcelain white stoneware Nerikomi with Kintsugi

Open bowl: 23cm w x 12cm d

Round form: 21cm w x 24cm h

Taller bowl: 16cm w x 12 cm h

During the Anti-Japanese War, the Nerikomi process is introduced to Japan by the article "Xiuwu kiln(a porcelain kiln) of the Northern Song Dynasty" written by Koyama Fuji, an ancient ceramist. Since then, there are a lot of ceramics attempts to recreate the Nerikomi process and formed "practice started" process in Japan, and has produced a vast of different schools, the living treasure Matsui Yasunari is the best of all, through the practice of hand techniques, not only make the craft more perfect, but also integrates modern elements and aesthetic, so that Nerikomi has a richer expression, and spread the craft to the world.

Other Nerikomi Ceramics

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Porcelain Nerikomi tall vase

Lake Natron from Space

Colored porcelain

19cm h x 13cm w x 7.5cm deep

Porcelain Nerikomi tall vase

Lake Natron from Space

Colored porcelain with silver Kintsugi

19cm h x 13cm w x 7.5cm deep

Porcelain Nerikomi tall vase

After the Storm

Colored porcelain

19cm h x 13cm w x 7.5cm deep

Porcelain Nerikomi tall vase

A Country Walk

Colored porcelain with silver Kintsugi

19cm h x 13cm w x 7.5cm deep

Group of four tall vases

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Small Nerikomi bowl - yellow clouds

Colored porcelain and silver Kintsugi – hand-built – 15cms x 13cms SOLD

Small Nerikomi bowl - Stormy skies

Colored porcelain – hand built – 14cms x 14cms

Small Nerikomi bowl - Sunset

Colored porcelain and silver Kintsugi – hand-built – 16cms x 14cms SOLD

Nerikomi Bowls

Coloured porcelain

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Extra large Nerikomi bowl - Turbulent times

Colored Porcelain – hand built

Large Nerikomi bowl - Troubled sky

Colored porcelain – hand built

Medium bowl - Stormy clouds

Colored porcelain – hand built

Nerikomi bowls

Coloured porcelain

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Porcelain Nerikomi bottle

A Summer Sky

Colored porcelain with silver Kintsugi

20cm w x 18.5cm h x 10cm deep

It's time to say goodbye.

Artwork is something that helps humans in the development of diverse activities and their outcomes. Artwork such as painting, sculpting, photography, architecture, etc., is embodied with various activities and is vast like an ocean.

Table of content:

· Why trend towards artwork in 2021?
· What are the special materials used in artwork?
· Trending painting artwork in 2021
· Conclusion

People have a relationship with art. It plays an important role in how humankind interacts with others and the whole world. People appreciate the artwork in different ways in dance, poetry, drawing, painting, and many more. It is a fact that artwork helps us in different ways, such as financially, emotionally, psychologically, and helps us shape our individual and collective personality.

You might wonder what sort of artwork is trending nowadays, especially in this era of technology. Well, the art world in 2021 is different from last year. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of artwork as well. 

The virtual engagements have been increasing, and the artists also opt for online exhibitions and virtual installations. This article will answer why artwork is important, why trendy artwork is, what unique materials are using, and some stylish artwork in 2021.

Why Trend towards Artwork in 2021?

Artwork is an expression of one’s joy and a way of making people understand things that can’t work verbally. Art is everywhere around us, and artwork is not just present in museums and galleries. It can be a form of communication.

There are several reasons why artwork is important in today’s world. Here are the few most common reasons which make artwork trending.

· People are naturally artistic
· Gives inner calmness and happiness
· Art crosses all divides
· Makes emotional, physical, and mental wellbeing
· It allows self-expression and self-awareness
· Explore nature
· Artwork makes people optimistic about the future.
· Wealth creation resource
· Artwork allows for complex ideas to be broken down
· It assists keep the recording of history

What are the Special Materials Used in Artwork?

Various materials are used for the creation of the perfect artwork. The medium for artwork also matters. The famous art mediums nowadays are sculpture, painting, mixed media, photography, and digital art.

While the usage of materials typically depends on the type of art you are doing. There are many types and styles of art artwork we see in this modern world. Every kind of artwork involves different materials. The following are some popular artwork types, styles, and materials needed to complete the art.

It is true that above all forms of artwork surrounded by all come together to create the atmosphere that we want to live in, which is personable to us. Every form of art needs special materials or tools like paper, music, colors, technology, photography, etc.

With the introduction of photography, film, and digital technology, painting has remained a persistent mode of expression. Painting media is highly versatile because it can apply to many different surfaces, such as plaster, clay, lacquer, canvas, wood, paper, and concrete.

Here are some popular painting types:

1. Decorative painting 
2. Acrylic painting
3. Digital painting
4. Oil painting
5. Line painting

Decorative Painting

Decorative painting helps to make a blank wall into an eye-catching space. You can create an empty or blank space into a work of beauty with decorative painting.

Acrylic Painting

Acrylic painting is one of the fast-drying painting art. This type of painting is made using acrylic paints, which are basically pigments suspended in a water-soluble acrylic polymer media that become water-resistant when dry. The beauty of acrylic paintings is that they are inexpensive and easy to work with, but creativity matters a lot here.

Digital Painting

Digital painting modern form of painting, and it let you create beautiful artwork without the use of inks and paint oils. It allows you to paint directly on the computer instead of paper or canvas. The only things you need for digital painting are painting software, graphics system/tablet.

Oil painting

This type of painting allows you to use oils to make a creative painting. Different oil paints are used to create an eye-catching and innovative image. Oil paints are made of pigment powder and oil, usually line seed oil.

Line Art / Painting

Line drawing is a famous form of artistic expression. The is a lot of power in a line, and the art of line drawing has worth it. It is the act of creating illustrations by using basic strokes, and it doesn’t include any gradients.

Conclusion

In the 21st century, the dimensions of artwork have changed as compared to the past. Nowadays, art is not just a way of expressing one’s ideas but also can give some information or message. Artwork can inspire and take you to another world where you can interpret everything by your emotions.

An attractive and eye-catching artwork can give you pleasant and inner satisfaction. But choosing the suitable artwork may be incredibly difficult among many choices. To understand the beauty of art in contemporary culture, one needs to turn to historical art forms.

In short, artwork influences everyone daily, in the form of painting, music, or even video, and significantly impacts our mood and emotions.

Does it exactly mean nothing when things that people think are meaningless?

Since inviting things can be created, why should rotten things not be worth making?

Recently, the latest collection of rotten fruits by Sculpture Artist Kathleen Ryan are on show at the Karma Gallery in New York -including cherries, lemons, and Halloween pumpkins.

The giant bad fruit is covered with organically grown mold and rotting skin studded with glass beads and gems (freshwater pearls, turquoise, rose quartz, amber, pink opal, and amethyst). Usually, Ryan prefers to use precious, shiny stones to show decay and ordinary glass beads to represent the original parts of the fruit.

Kathleen Ryan

The Los Angeles artist

Web：www.kathleen-ryan.com

ins：katieryankatieryan

Artist Kathleen Ryan is an artist from New York, USA. She studied studio art and anthropology at Pitzer College and received her Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA. Undertaken extensive artistic practices by the young artist, the Bad Fruit series, one of the most eye-catching pieces in her oeuvre, has garnered numerous exhibitions. She uses precious and semi-precious stones to cover the surface of large fruit models to create jeweled fruits of enormous size.

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Sculpture Artist Kathleen Ryan challenges the conventional aesthetics that these fruits are not the freshest images in people's minds instead coated with mold. Her project is called Bad Fruit.

Today we are going to share with you some new artworks from Bad Fruit. Besides lemons, she also created cherries, pumpkins, watermelons, grapes, and more fruits.

Kathleen Ryan says the sculptures have a beautiful and joyful look, as well as ugly and unsettling.

Bad cherries, 2021

Bad cherries, 2021(details)

The rotting fruit displays rich variations of color, which marries with dozens of precious and semi-precious stones by Kathleen Ryan: Amazon stone, agate, quartz, rose quartz, turquoise, jade, jasper, serpentine, smoky quartz, olive jade, fluorite, amethyst, tree agate, Russian serpentine, marble, emerald, abalone shell, coral, freshwater pearl.

Bad cherries with daisy chain, 2021

Bad cherries, 2021(details)

Kathleen Ryan comments on the culture of excess consumption with her collection Rotten, oversized fruit sculptures. These fragments transform discarded and rotting fruits into beautifully sophisticated artworks using a styrofoam base and beads from countless carved precious or semi-precious stones.

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Bad lemon (sea witch)

Bad lemon (armadillo), 2021

To make the fruit, Ryan starts with a large polystyrene base 28 inches wide. First, the artists make some patterns using paint to show which part of a lemon or peach will decay. Next, Pierce the foam with steel spikes, pinning down a row of gems. From pale freshwater pearls to dark-green serpentine, these beads subtly impersonate the rotting flesh of the fruit.

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Jackie, 2021

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People always search for meaning and value in things, including art, but is that necessary? Artists depicted bizarre, seemingly meaningless objects with exquisite materials to express questions and satires about values, desires, and meanings.

Other Artworks

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Here is a comment from a netizen: Microorganisms do not think they are beautiful or not, and it is only a natural process for decay. Don't people always say that nature is beautiful? Alas, humans, only accept flowers bloom but not flowers fade?

What do you think of these sculptures?

01 / Black and White Paper Sculpture, Presenting the Unique Beauty of Geology and Landform

Visual artist Scott Hazard uses some shattered pieces of the paper or fabric, overlapping and arranging organically to present its unique geoecology and landscape with an artistic style, shaping the visual landscape in picturesque disorder. It looks like caves, and uneven canyons or hills in high and low, with unique visual appealing and capturing the imagination. The whole thing is a huge swell, the upwelling of life. My eyes feasted on the outline of swell and sweep.

Scott Hazard imprinted words on stacked pieces of paper. From a distance, the collocation of text and cardboard is like ink and wash painting. Close up, the text wanders between the cardboard, capturing people's eyes, from far to near, and from near to far, creating a more dynamic reading experience. In this series of artworks, Scott Hazard's understanding of space is similar to the Buddhist "void". It represents a pause of thought and mental emptiness.

Right Behind You

Medium: Sculpture (wood, paper, acrylic, archival ink.)
Size: 31.5 X 45.5” X 4” deep (Framed) 
2017

Cultivate

Medium: Sculpture (wood, paper, acrylic, archival ink.)
Size: 31.5 X 45.5” X 4” deep (Framed) 
2017

This

Medium: Sculpture (wood, paper, acrylic, archival ink.)
Size: 31.5 X 45.5” X 4” deep (Framed) 
2017

Surface Opened

Medium: Sculpture (printmaking paper, text, maple wood frame/box) 
Size: 13” X 13” X 6” deep.
2016

Hold This Line

Medium: Sculpture (printmaking paper, text, maple wood frame/box) 
Size: 13” X 13” X 6” deep.
2016

Sow Wild

Medium: Sculpture (printmaking paper, text, maple wood frame/box) 
Size: 15” X 15” X 8”
2016

Stone, Drop, Trace

Medium: Sculpture (Maple, acrylic, paper, text.) 
Size: 16” X 16” X 8”
2017

Wild World

Medium: Sculpture (Maple, acrylic, paper, text.) 
Size: 16” X 16” X 8”
2017

The overall white sculpture, through the black text, forms a combination of black and white composition, not only in the visual contrast and highlights, and the text also represents the human civilization, so that human beings and nature form an inseparable whole, improve the overall level for the artwork.

02 / Unique Paper Sculpture, Look Like Rolling Earth

Paper sculpture artist Annie creates scale-like paper sculptures through distinctive paper carving, the surface of ups and downs and well-arranged. It looks like the rolling earth or geographical features from above. It is not only saturated with fancy but also the aesthetic feeling of Art Deco. One gets different impressions of the artwork when viewing it from different views.

It's time to say goodbye.