Great New Artists

January has been a successful month so far here so I thought I would do a little time-out housekeeping-type post for all my lovely readers.

So far 2009 has seen a lot of new artists from YouTube and other sites on the internet but I thought it would be in keeping with my more academic nature if February took a slightly different track. I feel it is neccessary to understand old art in order to truly appreciate new art so the month of Feb will be dedicated to some of those old favorites with short descriptions of why they were so great.

Hopefully the rest of 2009 will get back to my roots here at Great New Artists and find some more great painters &ct. making great new art for everyone. Since the summer is usually pretty heavy with this kind of thing floating around we’ll keep our eyes peeled for that around that time.

Among the ice festivals I want to go to one day is the one they have every year at Harbin, China. The festival starts every year on January 5th and has been going on since 1985. But tourists can go and see some fo the sculptures year-round because it stays so cold there (so I am told by some Americans I know who live in China).

The sculpturs this year include life-size buildings reflecting traditional Chinese architecture and the world’s largest father Christmas sculpture. Personally I think the best part is that the best time to see these sculptures is at night because you just don’t get the same look in the daytime and they light them all up. Each one looks like a perfect crystal palace with the lights on at night.

Check out this blog post and this one for pictures.

In keeping with the tradition of counting down and looking back which seems to transcend generations and religions every year round about this time I decided to write about some of the best new artists I found this past year.

Valsartdiary I actually found out about her a while ago before 2008 started but her style is classic.

Katarina Sokolova one of the best digital painters I have ever seen.

Kawaii Goods.com great little shop full of pink stuff.

Graffiti Paris is a book not a person or organization but it still counts as one of the best art related things I found this year.

Of course there have been a lot more great things this year than just these but it’ll be more fun if I don’t tell you what else to like