http://blog.opus-art.com Browse and Buy Contemporary original art, prints and photography from the world's best modern and contemporary artists and photographers Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:08:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Though Hammer Films have produced a variety of genre films, from science fiction, thrillers, Film Noir, comedy, and even television series, they are indisputably best-known for their Gothic Horror Films of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Thoroughly British, the company name originated from the stage name of William Hinds - ... http://blog.opus-art.com/2010/01/27/hammer-horror-exhibition-comes-to-newcastle-exclusively-with-opus-art/ Sputnik by Joan Fontcuberta is a book, clothbound portfolio and aluminium slipcase from an edition of 30, and is accompanied by signed photographs, reproductions of drawings and a real fragment of meteorite. Sputnik tells the story, later revealed to be an elaborate hoax, of the life of Ivan Istochnikov, a ... http://blog.opus-art.com/2010/01/20/joan-fontcuberta-the-odyssey-of-soyuz-ii/ Dennis Stock: James Dean Dennis Stock,Magnum photographer, is probably best known for the iconic 1955 portrait of James Dean walking through New York's Times Square in the rain, cigarette dangling from his mouth. Stock's black and white photograph immortalised the Hollywood star, who would soon die in a car accident. It also immortalised ... http://blog.opus-art.com/2010/01/20/magnum-photographer-dennis-stock-dies-at-81/ In 1956 Peter Blake received a Leverhulme Research Award to study popular art, and he used the £50 prize money to travel through Europe, visiting Holland, Belgium, France, Italy and Spain between 1956 and 1957. During his travels he collected the ephemera of popular culture he is so well known for, ... http://blog.opus-art.com/2010/01/15/save-over-700-on-prints-from-peter-blakes-fag-packets-series/ Contemporary artist Chris Acheson creates superbly detailed oil paintings on canvas which, though often misidentified as photorealistic, are in fact exceptionally moving examples of hyperrealism. His depiction of mundane scenes in intense detail infuses them with something new; a reality which, though absent from the original, real-life scene, speaks a ... http://blog.opus-art.com/2010/01/05/chris-achesons-spectacular-works-online-and-in-the-christmas-show-now/ We are very proud to present two series of beautiful works by Paul Greenleaf, entitled 'Do Not Feed the Birds' and 'Correspondence'. Greenleaf takes inspiration from people, landscapes, architecture and popular culture for his works, which explore the idiosyncratic nature of society using a combination of found photographs and objects, ... http://blog.opus-art.com/2010/01/04/beautiful-works-by-brand-new-opus-artist-paul-greenleaf-online-now/ British artist Josie McCoy graduated from Central St Martins with a Masters degree in Fine Art in 1999, and since then has exhibited prolifically across the globe, with solo shows in London, Newcastle, Milan and Santiago de Compostela, as well as numerous group shows internationally. McCoy works from photographs and film ... http://blog.opus-art.com/2009/12/21/josie-mccoys-ethereal-beauties-in-our-christmas-exhibition/ Though their vibrant colours and contrasting textures give Henrik Simonsen's works instant visual impact, never more so than in Midnight and Rococo Blue; his most recent, delicately detailed pieces, Simonsen himself identifies the principle element in his works as drawing. So what is it that for him renders this ... http://blog.opus-art.com/2009/12/17/henrik-simonsens-new-works-featured-in-our-christmas-exhibition-but-what-are-they-all-about/ Brighton based artist Chris Kettle has been obsessed with still life for around 17 years now; time well-spent in re-inventing the classical genre in his own unique style, for a contemporary audience. Though certainly lacking nothing in skill and technical expertise when compared with his influences; in particular the Dutch ... http://blog.opus-art.com/2009/12/16/chris-kettles-newest-works-on-show-in-the-christmas-exhibition/ Opus artist Brian Jones is featured in the current issue of 'Shortlist'; the leading magazine 'for men with more than one thing on their minds', with his work Wanted Warhol. The article, which you can find here, on page 32, recognises Jones as 'the UK's most promising new artist', in ... http://blog.opus-art.com/2009/12/15/wanted-warhol-by-opus-artist-brian-jones-is-featured-in-leading-mens-mag-shortlist/