#octopussi

[sai-aeko]

Bird on Branch Watching Spider

Watanabe Seitei

ca. 1887

Japanese artist painter

[1880peterson]

Joyce Lee

[guang-we]

Xuan Loc Xuan

Artist painter

[xpuigc-bloc]

Malcolm T. Liepke

Contemporary American Painter

[ooctoopussi]

Simon Bull

[illustrations-fantasies]

おやすみなさい、美しい夢を。

ジビュレ・フォン・オルファース

Sibylle von Olfers

1881-1916

Bellaroontje, het woud-prinsesje

1913

[salderi]

Yool Kim

South korean artist painter

“A Peaceful Afternoon”

“An Autumn Night”

“Cozy & Silent”

COLOSSAL

Swans, Plants, and Fragmented Figures Warmly Embrace in Yool Kim’s Paintings

November 28, 2024

Art

Grace Ebert

Warmth permeates Yool Kim’s most recent body of work, which portrays tangled masses of limbs and swans in rich palettes of reds, pinks, and oranges.

Laying dense lines in acrylic paint, the Seoul-based artist examines the interactions between living things and their sometimes contradictory desires. Her new paintings entwine fragmented iterations of human figures with graceful black and white birds, monsteras, and ferns to explore peace and equality.

“I wanted to express the beauty of being able to care (for) the weak and taking care of each other, without a sense of superiority and inferiority in living things that are set by the world,” Kim tells Colossal. “By hugging, touching, or leaning on each other, I highlighted the meaning of connection and warmth.”

As with earlier bodies of work, this series similarly explores the fractured nature of the self. Kim shares that she’s feeling calmer and more tranquil these days, which is reflected in the ways figures stretch to embrace one another.

“I also wanted to express that I have many egos and personalities within me; I am a human being full of complexity who cannot grasp existence as a single disposition,” she adds. “I’m always considering myself.”

Kim will show paintings in several exhibitions this spring, the first of which opens in March at Hall Spassov in Seattle.

OooooooooooooooooooooO

[mael-omer]

Giorgio Ghisi

Mantua 1536 – Mantua 1582

The Fortune

Engraving, stipple engraving

24.3 x 13.4 cm.

[paintings-illustrations-art]

Vali Myers

[gillanfryingpan]

draw your ship challenge ahahaha (alt and reference under the cut)

if Tumblr gets mad at me for this I will cry

hehehehe

[pulpsandcomics2]

Michael Gillette

[sai-aeko]

Kaoru Yamada

Silent autumn

[1880peterson]

Toshio Saeki

[guang-we]

Red Lotus and Mandarin Ducks

Zhang Daqian

1943

Ink and colour on paper scroll

165 x 82 cm.

65 x 32 ¼ in.

[xpuigc-bloc]

Giovanni Stanchi

Rome c. 1645-1672

Oil on canvas

38 5/8 x 52½ in.

98 x 133.5 cm.

Courtesy Christie’s

[ooctoopussi]

Standing Nude

1918

Joan Miro