Mark Ryden

Mark Ryden is an american ilustrator, who has created a new style in contemporary art.

He was born on January 20th, 1963 in Medford, Oregon. Ryden studied Ilustration and graduated from the Art Center College of Design in pasadena, in 1987. His first solo show was "The Meat Show" in 1998.

His art has been classified as "Surrealism Pop" and it's the perfect blend between bloody  and tender, between perversity and innocent, and this blend is his personal seal. His art are full of  symbols and allegories too.

The artist has said that he was a child he interested in the strange. Worried teachers called Ryden's parents because the little Mark drew people with 3 eyes or pets guts out. But his parents ignored this, and they always supported his son.

Among his works, he designed the  Michael Jackson's album cover "Dangerous".

*Exhibitions:  "The Meat Show" (1998)

                     "Bunnies and Bees" (2002)

                      "Blood Show" (2005)

                      "The Tree Show" (2007)

                      "The Snow Yak Show" (2009)

                      "The Gay 90's Show" (2010)

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I love this artist because his works touch something in my heart. The look of the characters speaks to me. That blend between terderness and blood brings me to the most primitive, which is out of my consciousness. I can't explain it with words. Simply I love him. :)

Gothic Art Now

¿What is gothic?
There are many articles and opinions about this, and it isn't answered yet.
But, when we talk about gothic, we have an aesthetic and visual image: people with black clothes and laces, outlined eyes, pale faces.
For some people, this is a past style, but another say gothic is not dead, and it's presents in different aspects in actuality.
As in Art :)

Gothic Art Now is a book that groups the best of gothic contemporary art (painting, ilustration sculps, digital image, etc). It shows clasic gothic topics, like vampires and graves, and current elements taken from cine and TV.

Gothic Art Now is a good book that brings the gothic art to the people.

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 I think gothic is more than just show black roses and vampires. There are many people that think gothic is just using black clothes or just listening to Lacrimosa. There are a historical culture, artist, poets and writters are unknown for the "new gothics".

There are many art works that are more "gothics" than some that are in this book.

Also, I think there are many artist we can be considered gothic left out of this book. (eg: Mark Ryden :)ww.markryden.com )

In my opinion, this isn't the best book about gothic art.

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Thanks for reading :)

bye-byee! :)

Hello! :)

I'm Daniela, but I like people call me Nela. It is like my "artistic name" xD Welcome to my blog, MY FIRST BLOG!*-*  But I don't know how to use it D: It's a shameful thing!

But well :)

And I don't know what to say...now I know! I'll talk you about a  book that I'm reading :)
It called Living Dead in Dallas, written by Charlaine Harris.

It's about Vampires! *-* (vampires are my favourite fetish *¬*), and I won't tell you the story, because I want that you read it xD
In my opinion (I'm not an erudite), I think the story is attractive, characters are interesting and it keep your attention continually. But, I don't like how it's narrated :/  It can be an stupid thing, but I think is very important how you tell a story.
Besides...VAMPIRES AND HUMAN SHOULDN'T LIVING TOGETHER! The principal characteristics of Vampires are the darkness, the mistery and the loneliness. I think the new Vampires novels have forgotten these topics, and now the vampire is just like a human.
For that, I love Anne Rice and her vampires :) She is the best  writter about vampires novels of all the world!

And that was my opinion :)
I hope you read the book and make your own opinion ;)

Bye-bye! :)