Metropolitan Museum of Art

So day 3 of NY landed us in museum land. We visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art which graciously displays 5000 years of art..and well we had to check it out. heres what we saw.

The entrance to the museum welcomes you into the ancient Egyptian art and it was pretty overwhelming. We probably spent a good 3-4 hours checking the museum out, but 3 or 4 hours could have easily been spent just checking out all of the awe inspiring Egyptian art. This enormous sphinx was a pleasure to see...

as was the Mickey Mouse ride we ran across in Brooklyn earlier that was clearly inspired by it.

Inside view out from the Met.

This was an ornate ceiling of an aristocrat from somehere or another. Big balling is nothing new.

I believe these pieces were from the medieval times..could be wrong, going to this museum, actually reminded me of how much art history I've forgotten. The cool thing about this book was the embelisshments and writing using gold leaf or something near it.

This gruesome yet awesome rosary caught our eye also, it was carved from ivory and features small sculptures on half skeleton/half human face throughout it. The detail was amazing, yet creepy.

This is definitely the headpiece I'd step out with when going to battle.

Reminded me of Frazetta's Death Dealer. The armor and arms section of the museum was sweeeet.

I loved the attention to detail in the stitching of this.

As we blazed through the museum, seeing probably only about a quarter of what it had to offer, we came across the modern art section on our way out and was pretty pumped to see these pieces.

Amazing painting of a waterfall, by an artist I cant remember...this was a huge canvas with very realistic painted landscapes, but the backstory was that the painter created this for friends of his that died of AIDS, and within this painting are some names and other inscriptions written within the painting that are disguised when you see it from afar, but when up close you can readily read what the artists had in mind. real cool.

Salvador Dali's CRUCIFIXION has always been one of my favorite art pieces , and it was amazing to see in person. I've long been a huge fan of Dali's work, but have always seemed somewhat cheated when seeing his smaller pieces in person, but this large work more than made up for my past thoughts. The detail was insane, and it was surreal...for lack of a better word to see the paint strokes that created this powerful image. The top image is a detailed shot of the painting. the woman in the painting is actually Dali's wife, Gala, who was often seen in various paintings by the artist.


Picasso's "Dying Bull" - This is the period when Pablo was painting multiple angles in one painting for am old school 3D effect of sorts...anyways-it was cool, and I cant wait to go back one day and see the remainder of the museum.

ARTOMATIC

ARTOMATIC was a 2 day event and celebration of arts at the Historic Victory Grill during the East Austin Studio Tour (E.A.S.T.) . The event was an art market, concert, and art show.
The event featured laser projection bombing, multimedia,bad ass music, high fives, and a 24 hr paint session.

Special shouts out to our friend Arthur who helped a bunch and had a booth set up with hiss designed tees...sorry we missed it with the photos, next time man.

This was a 24 hr paint session collaboration by Marc Zuazua and Art Vader

This is the same canvas about 24 hrs prior.

DJ TROUBLE came through to wreck the turntables and jam for a brief time with Hour Band. Troubles scratches are pretty sick. Phranchyze and Hour Band also shared stage.

artist Lena Damvar was chalking up the eastside.


Amazing oil paintings by artist Nicole Kallenberg. I love the way her pieces offer dramatic lighting as well as a very textural feel. Simply amazing pieces -check out her site, she offers various print options. Nicole is also available for custom pieces.

Art by Janelle Ciaccio. Janelle's characters are whimsical and fun. Check out her site for more of her work and such, Its in the facebook realm of things for you FB'ers.

Marc Zuazua trudging away on probably like hour 22 or 23 of 24.

This was another 24 hr paint session collaboration done by artists Marc Zuazua and Art Vader the previous weekend at Oxblood Fest in South Austin.

Marc Zuazua and Art Vader

Art by Marc Zuazua. Marc is the lead designer for Mofoz Visualz and co-operated the 5th Gallery. His subjects range from popular hip hop icons to women seemingly made of geometric shapes and curves. Marc's new work is heavily layered and uses everything from spray paint, markers, to glued paper and airbrush.

Art by Monika Mullin. Monika does amazing portrait style paintings using acrylics. The original pieces almost look watercolored at some places, but she masterfully blends watered down tones with sharp and expressive lines and contours to create some vibrant pieces if some of pop and hip hop cultures favorite icons.

Art by Padaric Kolander Padaric's painting and drawings on display were amazing. The figurative lines of characters portrayed juxtapoz the open space and definition of the pieces.

art by Lena Damvar Lena's ink drawings on paper were pretty cool wethinks. Amazing detail and fine line skills are shown in her design heavy work.

Art by Padaric Kolander, these amazing large scale drawings used vibrant spaces of color that force the viewer to look closer at the detailed sketches.

Art by Nicole Kallenberg


Lena chalking it up some more

TEXAS.

Artist Nicole Kallenberg and company. Nicole was painting a pretty cool piece onsite of a woman and a guitar, cant wait to see the finished piece.

Art by Art Vader. Art Vader is an artist from Corpus Christi whose art often portrays spaceships, skeletons, musicians, religious themes, and robots. Highly science fiction inspired and beautiful, bold, colors often characterize his pieces.


Marc

Custom kicks and gear by Mofoz Visualz and Hour Band.

Amber Keller is an amazing jewelry maker, illustartor, painter....and general maker of cool things. Her sister was in town to help her create all walks of jewelry. The cool thing about Amber's work is that most pieces are made of found objects that she then recycles into funy and fashionable items...like a gambit and rogue pair of earings. Check out her site Lost and Founded-it has a lot of creative wearables.

Art by famed French graffiti writer Andre aka Monsieur A line the entrabc corridor of the Historic Victory Grill. A few Sxsw's ago i think Belvedere vodka brought the artists through for a party, and he painted said walls, and annoyed said staff haha. artists.

Art by Solomon Perry of Phantazm. Solomon was actually in Houston showing and painting at DJ, Rapid Ric's studio grand opening during Art Crawl Houston. We were glad to have a few pieces from him in Austin to showcase, as well as have him share a few of our pieces in Houston for Ric's awesome event.Solomon is an amazing artists that specializes in 3-D illusions.

Art by Phantazm

Art by John Weber. John Weber is a steel sculpture artists that uses recycled stainless steel for his pieces. Most of John's work is kinetic, meaning that it moves, usually with the wind , and with some of his newer projects with the aid of motorized fans. Real cool stuff.


Here are some projections that we had going on throughout the night.

The following are pictures taken from photographer Wendell Ramsey who captured the laser bombing pretty nicely..

Art Vader and Marc Zuazua collaborations

Late night painting

Here are some shots of the laser bombing. As you caan see from the picture below , the laser pointer's canvas is actually set up behind the painting being collaborated. The camera would follow and track the lasers movements on the canvas which was then projected onto buildings. It was fun to see people get so lost in trying to create legible letters using a laser pointer...good times.