Artist: Piet van den Boog
Background:
Piet is a Dutch artist currently living in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Van den Boog uses interesting medias for art. He otften paints on metal with oil and acrylic for his flesh tones. He then proceeds by using chemical reactions to achieve a rust-like group of colors, thus scarring the steel. The "scars" serve as a metaphor for the internal scars that we all have. The chemicals (acids for example) that he tests out on different kinds of metals create different patterns for which he does not have much control over, adding to the uniqueness of his pictures. He works mostly on portriats, painting certain areas of the face very realistically, (but in different and unrealistic arrays of colors) but leaves other areas of theface very abstract to contrast with the realism. The combination of abstract, realistic, and chemical, makes for quite interesting and beautiful art.
My second artists, the one that I found on www.thisiscolossal.com, is a Finnish photographer named Mikko Lagerstedt. Lagerstedt takes photos of the beautiful landscapes in Finland. The thing that I like most about Lagerstedt's photos is the glow. In every photo, whether colorful or black and white, a certain shade or color seems to radiate and stand out stronger than all of the other colors. Colors in his images seem to blend effortlessly, to create a beautiful misty haze of color. The parts of his pictures that most consistently have this fade or mist are the skies. Especially during sunset, Lagerstedt captures and alters nature perfectly.
