'For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.'
--Vincent Van Gogh



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Study for 'Youth of St. Sergiy Radonezhsky'. 1890-91. Oil on panel. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.



Olga's Gallery

Times
2 Nov 09



The scene from Spellbound, made of paper tape on clear plastic - (Mark Khaisman/BNPS)

The monochrome world of Hitchcock’s Spellbound has been revisited in a new artistic medium — layers of brown parcel tape stuck on to a 4ft-high sheet of clear plastic through which light is shone.

The scene, taken from the director’s 1945 drama starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck, was created by Mark Khaisman, who sells his works for up to $10,000 (£6,000).

Mr Khaisman, 51, from Philadelphia, previously worked with stained glass before switching to parcel tape.

“The work is made from layer upon layer of translucent packing tape, applied to clear Plexiglas and placed in front of a light box to give shadow and depth,” said Mr Khaisman. “My art is a conversation with light.”

That is the username of an excellent artist on lj.rossia.org. I found Alex's art on a robot link which friended me, and I was quite impressed. I have permission to show you a clickable thumbnail, and I will make it go to his journal, but I am happy to report that now he also has a deviantART account where he is in the process of displaying his talent. It is located here:

urbanaztec.deviantart.com

I think you will be quite amazed at the intricacy of his art when you see the large version of 'Lamp'.

Click the picture to visit Alex's journal. Then once you are there, you can click this tag to see all his art on LJR.

"I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He just throws himself into this great masterpiece and collapses from exhaustion when its finished. It’s really not that way at all. Usually it's a pretty calculated, sustained, and slow process by which you develop something. The effect can be one of spontaneity, but that’s part of the artistry. An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he’s expressing the same emotion in exactly the same way. He has developed a technique to convey those feelings so that he can get the ideas across. Or a musician may not want to play that damn music at all, but he has a booking and has to do it. I think the real test is to plan something and be able to carry it out to the very end. Not that you’re always enthusiastic; it's just that you have to get this thing out. It's not done with one's emotions; it’s done with the head."

Richard Estes

Hashi made this background on a programme called Bryce. Click the pick to visit his deviantART and download it for your computer wallpaper/screensaver. :)