r/TorturedPoetsArtDept

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“The question “Do you need a friend” is actually impossible to answer. Because what kind of friend do we want but more importantly; what kind of friend are we willing to be? How ready are we to be loved by something we can’t explain. And how ready are we to return that possible love that is actually all around us?

Now look at your almost finished friend, at the object (because that is what it is) and try to see if you really built a connection with it. With something that is inanimate, unalive, at the first look. Then think about the friend you are. Not only to this object but to everything around you that maybe doesn’t pass as human or even cute. Where would you think you could be more humane towards something that isn’t reflecting yourself back at you?

Make a list of the things you can think of. Set a timer. Write for ten minutes. See what comes to your mind. Not as a list of failures, just research on yourself. You don’t even have to tell your friend. But maybe you should.”

Oil on canvas

Permanent collection at the National Museum of Sweden

“Victor Sheleg is a contemporary Latvian artist. His personal viewpoint, which examines the conformist culture of the society he encounters before transforming it into a fascinating artistic aesthetic, serves as the foundation for his creative outlook. His shadowy, suggestive portrayals of women strike an intriguing mix between conformity and freedom in both form and content.

Victor Sheleg was born in 1962. He lives and works in Latvia. Sheleg exhibited his works in Latvia, Russia, Finland, USA, Czech Republic, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Polan, Italy, and has taken part in numerous important art fairs, including: Art Ireland, Dublin, Art Zurich International, Art Edinburgh, The Affordable Art Fair, London, Art Melbourne, Affordable Art Fair, Paris, Glasgow Art Fair, Edinburgh Art Fair, Affordable Art Fair Brussels, AAF NYC, AAF Amsterdam. Over the years from 1990 to 2023, Viktor Sheleg created more than 2300 paintings, and almost all of them are in private collections.”

Isabella Rossellini performed her own in-character vocals for the rendition of "Blue Velvet" in the 1986 David Lynch film

Joanna Karpowicz, born in 1976, is a painter, illustrator and comic artist from Krakow, Poland. Anubis is usually present in her paintings. The presence of this figure from ancient beliefs connects the past with the present. What is transcendent - people's beliefs, with what is tangible here and now.

Acrylic paintings.

On exhibit in the National Museum of Sweden in Stockholm

Description below read:

“A woman pictured alone in a sparsely
furnished room is a recurring theme in
Vilhelm Hammershøi's paintings. Light enters from the side and the model often has her back to the viewer.
Hammershøi's still and empty rooms
possess a heavy and distinctive
evocative atmosphere. Most of his interiors were produced at home in Copenhagen, but this painting was executed in London. The model was his wife, Ida.”
Oil on canas

Nikoleta Sekulovic (b. 1974) is a contemporary figurative painter born in Rome to a German mother and a Serbian father. Currently based in Madrid, she is best known for her large-scale, muted-palette portraits of women

Tiina's works deal with identity by focusing on perception, transformation and desire. His work represents a kind of dialogue between photography and painting itself. The Finnish artist works with oil on canvas to achieve this artistic style.