“Your appreciation of the arts will bring new opportunities.”
This is what Marian says about the pieces below: "This is a really important piece for me. Patrick Burgoyne at Creative Review offered me one of these “Monograph” pieces they send out with subscription editions of the magazine. For me, it was an opportunity to create all new pieces that I called “Love Stories”, because each one was an illustrated text of the story of someone I love."
June Bantjes, my mother (watercolour)
"I spent 3 solid weeks on it, and nearly burned myself out. But in the end, it was worth it. Some of these are easier to read than others, but I won’t “translate” them for you. Either you’re curious, or you’re not." - Marian Bantjes
June Bantjes, my mother (watercolour)
Gillian Muir, my best friend (watercolour):
Debbie Millman, my best friend (ink + photo):
Rod Bantjes, my brother (acrylic paint):
Doyald Young, my friend (pencil):
"Design ignites change" silver foil on copper paper
Stefan Sagmeister calls Bantjes “one of the most innovative typographers working today". He likes her so much that Stefan asked Marian twice to contribute to his series “Things I have learned in my life so far”. He was so impressed with her sugar piece she did for the Fox River Paper booklet that asked to use sugar to create his phrase “If I want to explore a new direction professionally, it is helpful to try it out for myself first“.
Marian: My 2009 valentines were a bit of a departure in a number of ways. This year I wrote 4 fragments of letters; each has no beginning and no end; and each is carefully crafted to hopefully have some resonance with most people. Each recipient got one fragment."
Please do click on it and read it- its totally worth it
This one brought tear to my eyes
"They wanted me to illustrate the words “We’re Sorry” relating to a story about the Canadian propensity to apologize, and the troubles that ensue from public apologies for past national crimes." Marian Bantjes
"from a distance this looks like some gruesome viscera … but on closer inspection it reveals itself to be only harmless, friendly yarn." - Marian Bantjes
All the boys who loved me back (burned wood):
The 'Love Banner'
A curse
an incantation
A spell.
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11 comments:
These pieces are most unusual. I see why you are so taken with them Vineeta. Magic!
Robyn, she is not bound by any style & always and only follows her heart, she is obsessive & super detailed & super intricate with her work- she is my idol if I ever had one.
MY god! each piece of hers is different from the other. Just when u think u know her style....she surprises us with something unusual! this is really fabulous ! thanks for the intro abt this lovely artist Vin!
some of the stuff is gorgeous! hand painted too :) wow!
i really want to learn calligraphy and then do some work like that. thanks for the inspiration vineeta!
These are lovely! The work is so intricate.
Thankyou for posting these. There is something so engaging about handwriting and fonts.
oh my gosh! These are so cool! I love it when words become a work of art. They take on a whole new level of nuance. Beautiful find...thanks for sharing!
the work posted here is unique and different..good posting
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saw u on priyaz blogpost...you pretty babes got together and had fun!! ...it must be fun to meet fellow bloggers after "knowing" them. :)
PS: Looking forward to a post! Kya hua
sudha
It is a new age fashion to appreciate any thing unusual or modern.Modern art is an acquired taste.In fact,to so many people,it is not art at all.
The term non-objective art generally refers to art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses shapes and colors in a non-representational or subjective way. The color and form (and often the materials and support) are the subject of the abstract painting. It's completely non-objective or non-representational. This approach to painting used to represent things that aren't visual, such an emotion, sound, or spiritual experience. I think these pictures fall in to what is called figurative abstracts.It is written 'My brother 'and 'Mother' and all that..but I couldnt see any.I dont know if any of you got that feeling when you look at these pictures.One has to read the caption to know what the artist meant by the painting.I wonder if any of these artists can ever paint some thing like an ordinary object painting. I agree there is some symmetry and color in it,thats all to it.
I could easily appreciate a Van Gogh or Ravi Varma,they evoke finer emotions in you and creates a stirring deep inside you.Isnt it the purpose of art?
Any form of art has to be something appreciated by ordinary human.Or is there something called art for the elite?
Dr Anthony, my only response to your comment is- why does a person sing? because he/she feels like it or because it will evoke soul stirring emotions in the listener. The artist/singer sings because he can & because in doing it he fulfills what is god given & in return feels fulfilled. And creation itself is so varied, and so subjective. We maynot know or understand all the languages in the world- does it mean that the ones we dont know are meaningless or dont exist? or worse- must not exist? Its a happy world- where all co-exist. And to answer your query about the art about 'mother' or 'brother' not being 'visible' all you need to do is read it. It is english. It takes a bit of effort to read (if one cares enough to) and one is amply rewarded for it. The larger resolution images appear when you click on the image.
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