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Alix Malka Fashion Photography

March 31st, 2008 admin

 

ALIX MALKA is a talented fashion photographer. Born in Paris, Alix Malka is today one of the most asked for photographers by the international magazines. His inspiration comes from the likes of Pedro Almodovar and John Waters, as well as designers like John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. Malka’s images suggest tastes for rich, exuberant and sophisticated style. Alix entered the world of the fashion in 1985 when he began work with director Tierry Mugler.

Pop Art works based on Alix Malka’s photography. Click images for larger size. Large scale vector EPS or finished rasters in JPEG or TIFF are available upon request.

The linked images are quick scan proofs at 2500 pixels wide. Consider these draft quality. If you like any of them leave comments and we’ll publish production quality output.

Ring-tailed Lemur Poster Download

March 30th, 2008 admin

 

In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, a ring-tailed lemur nuzzles a cub at a zoo in Hefei, capital of east China’s Anhui Province, on Thursday, March 27, 2008. The cub was born on March 24. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Liu Bingsheng)

Download poster sized version of Lemur Pop Art — 9000×5895

Original

The Ring-tailed Lemur (Lemur catta) is …

Monotype Printing Technique

March 30th, 2008 admin

 

Monotype

Monotype is a one-off technique in which a flat surface on copper, zinc or glass is painted with oil colors or ink and then passed through the etching press. The process permits only one copy; thus “monotype.” Modern monotypes take advantage of a wide variety of materials including perspex, cardboard, etc., with artists creating veritable collages on …

What is Pop Art; What is Pop Culture?

March 29th, 2008 admin

 

Popular culture can be defined as the sum of arts designed for simultaneous consumption by a numerically large audience. Thus, there is a similarity in distribution and consumption between prints and magazines, movies, records, radio, TV, and industrial and interior design. Popular culture originates in urban centres and is distributed on the basis of mass production. It is not like …

Neither Art Painting nor Art Photograph But a Nameless Mixture

March 28th, 2008 admin

 

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Art is something which must be destroyed - a proposition common to many experiments of Modernity.

Pop art reverses values. “What characterizes pop is mainly its use of what is despised” (Lichtenstein). Images from mass culture, regarded as vulgar, unworthy of an aesthetic consecration, return virtually unaltered as materials of the …

Planographics Lithography Intaglio Techniques

March 28th, 2008 admin

 

Planographics Lithography Intaglio Techniques

Lithography
This is the printmaking technique invented by Senefelder in Germany in 1796 that takes advantage of the repulsion between oil and water to transfer an image from a smooth limestone surface to a sheet of paper. It is considered one of the most authentic means of artistic reproduction as it prints directly the touch …

Stencil, Silk Screen or Serigraphy Techniques

March 27th, 2008 admin

 

Stencil: Silk Screen or Serigraphy
Silk screen, or “serigraphy” as it prefers to be known in fine-art circles, originated in China and found its way to the West in the 15th century. It’s a stencil process based on the porosity of silk (nylon or other fabric) that allows ink to pass through the areas which are not “stopped” …

Traditional Printmaking Techniques - INTAGLIO

March 27th, 2008 admin

 

Traditional Printmaking Techniques - INTAGLIO

INTAGLIO

Etching
Etching is a method of making prints from a metal plate, usually copper or zinc, which has been bitten with acid. The plate is first coated with an acid-resistant substance (etching ground or varnish) through which the design is drawn with a sharp tool (burin or other). The acid eats the plate through …

Football Player Running Football Crowd in Background

March 27th, 2008 admin

 

Large format JPEG poster free download @ 12,500×15,617 — Football Player Running Football Crowd in Background

See other Football related pop art source material.

This work taken from: http://popartmachine.com/item/pop_art/LOC+1172723

Clear / Hibberd V.B. Kline. POS - US .K58, no. 2 (C size)…

TITLE:Clear / Hibberd V.B. Kline.
CALL NUMBER:POS - US .K58, no. 2 (C size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZC4-3080 (color film copy …

Massive Ice Shelf on Verge of Breakup

March 26th, 2008 admin

 

Wilkins ice shelf in Antarctica Poster Download 5000×2363

Some 220 square miles of ice has collapsed in Antarctica and an ice shelf about seven times the size of Manhattan is “hanging by a thread,” the British Antarctic Survey said Tuesday, blaming global warming.

“We are in for a lot more events like this,” said professor Ted Scambos, a glaciologist …

Toshi Yoshida Woodblock Print Sea Fish Adaptation

March 26th, 2008 admin

 

Toshi Yoshida, 1911-1995
Toshi Yoshida was the eldest son of Hiroshi Yoshida. Like his father he undertook extensive travels all over the world. His trips took him to the U.S.A., Canada, India, Africa, Australia and even to the Antarctica. Most of his print subjects are focused on landscapes or animals depicted …

Printmaking Techniques — Reliefs in Woodcuts & Linocuts

March 26th, 2008 admin

 

Printmaking Techniques — Reliefs in Woodcuts & Linocuts

Woodcut
The woodcut is the art of engraving on wood by hollowing out with chisels areas of a plank of usually cherry wood, pear, apple or boxwood, leaving a design on the surface. The transfer of this design onto paper is achieved by inking the surface with typographic ink and applying pressure …

Traditional Printmaking Techniques

March 26th, 2008 admin

 

Traditional Printmaking Techniques

From the time of Dürer, indeed from the time of ancient China, artists have used a variety of processes to create a repeatable image on paper. These various methods of creating a fine print (a print in the fine arts tradition) have been used and developed through the centuries, adapted for new applications, and continuously …

Electric Motorcycles Brammo Enertia

March 25th, 2008 admin

 

Two wheels and a charge Electric motorcycles hit the road (warning 17 megabyte 15000×11250 image when clicked — save to desktop first)

Brammo Enertia

- More motorcycle images

Price: $11,995
Top speed: 50 mph
Range: 35 to 45 miles
Weight: 280 pounds
Target market: Urban commuters
Shipping/Availability: Third quarter 2008

More than 100 customers placed advance orders in the 90 days after Brammo announced the Enertia …

Picasso 1937: Photoshop Cutout Filter ImageMagick

March 24th, 2008 admin

 

picasso_1937.jpgDownload Picasso 1937 Grande baigneuse au livre. 18 February 1937 — 9000×12092, 49 megabytes, as generated using the techniques outlined below.

Update: Pop Art Ink on Cutouts — with imagemagick cutout example.

Large Bather with a Book
(Grande baigneuse au livre)
1937
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973/Spanish)
Oil, pastel, charcoal on canvas
Musee Picasso, Paris

Emulating the Cutout Filter with ImageMagick’s …

Indian Girl’s Colored Face: Holi Festival of Colors

March 23rd, 2008 admin

 

An Indian girl with her face covered with colored powder looks on as she celebrates Holi, the spring festival of colors, in Calcutta, India, Saturday, March 22, 2008.

Available downloads:


Indian Girl at Holi Festival JPEG format 15,000 x 9,725

Indian Girl at Holi Festival EPS vector format.

Taken from http://www.journalstar.com/content/gallery/gallery_43/album_1137/midsize_photo47e5485c34fa9854832008.jpg

Kicking Horse Depicted in Zen Painting Style

March 22nd, 2008 admin

 

Kicking horse depicted in Zen painting style shown as original file format. Click image for original size as found, 537×801.

Same image as above adapted to 10,000 pixels wide by 14,917 high using a three step ImageMagick process outlined below. Click image to download full sized image.

Also available is the vector version in …

Japanese Fish Hanga

March 19th, 2008 admin

 

Japanese Fish Hanga Carp

More in Pop Art Machine’s Hanga Series:

Download Japanese Fish Hanga Carp in JPEG bitmap 7500 x 5263

Download Japanese Fish Hanga Carp in Vector EPS Unlimited

Kieko Tsurusawa Cherry Blossoms Woodblock Print

March 18th, 2008 admin

 

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Bitmap JPEG Download Kieko Tsurusawa: Cherry blossoms blown by soft wind. Black background. 3600 x 2717

Title Cherry Blossoms limited edition
Artist Kieko Tsurusawa born 1942
Signature Signed, numbered and titled by artist in pencil.
Seal Artist’s seal.
Dated 1984.
Medium/Technique Woodblock print.
Colors Black and white.
Edition Size 200
Description Cherry blossoms blown by soft wind. Black background.

Arabian Nights Classic Comic Book Covers from Marvel

March 17th, 2008 admin

 

arabian_nights_cover_preview.jpgThe Arabian Nights is a sublime collection of 264 fabulous tales in Arabic, assembled fragment by fragment during the Middle Ages. In the 10th century, some of the stories were transmitted orally among the Mohammedan peoples of the Near East. As time passed, other sources were used to increase the amount of stories within …

Japanese Hanga

March 14th, 2008 admin

 

Japanese woodblock prints of the 20th century as well as selected modern printmakers … the start of something good at Pop Art Machine.

See the free collection of Japanese Hanga at Pop Art Machine.

Collection includes but is not limited to works from:

Akahoshi, Keisuke, 1962- artist.
Akiyama, Iwao, 1921- artist.
Akiyama, Toyohide, 1962- artist.
Horio, Sawa, 1946- artist.
Iino, Noriko, 1946- artist.
Hirota, …

American Flag Stars & Stripes

March 13th, 2008 admin

 

An illustrated advertising label for soap manufactured in Boston, interesting for its imagery and allusion to the popular “Know Nothing” or nativist movement. In the foreground are two American Indians, emblematic of the movement’s prejudice against the foreign-born. In the lower right is a seated brave, leaning against a rock and holding a pipe. Above him a large American …

Enlarge a Low Resolution Image to Poster Size: Movie Frame

March 12th, 2008 admin

 

Pop Art Machine uses many techniques to convert low resolution images to JPEG files suitable for large format printing. Much of the process depends on the nature of the source image. Is it B&W? Photo? Line drawing? Cartoon with color shading? Art reproduction? Paintings, etc?

In this post, we identify steps used to convert a lossy 480 pixel wide frame from a movie to a large format JPEG print suitable for framing. This doesn’t mean that the image will look like a photograph when we’re done. We’re going for a simplified output — something that has the appearance of a screen printing process, block print or other similar mass output production technique.

Dave Jordano Bridges & Buildings

March 5th, 2008 admin

 

Dave Jordano was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan. He received a BFA in photography from the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit in 1974. In 1977 he established a photography studio in Chicago, with commercial clients that have come to include such companies as Crate and Barrel, Starbucks, and Kraft.

Browse Pop Art Renditions of Dave Jordano’s …

Clive Arrowsmith: Fashion Photographer

March 5th, 2008 admin

 

Clive Arrowsmith has worked for all the leading fashion publications and is the only photographer that has twice been given the commission to shoot the Pirelli Calendar.

Browse the Pop Art Machine catalog of work based on Clive Arrowsmith’s photography.

He currently shoots advertising, celebrity and beauty and fashion in the UK and internationally. In addition he …

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Print Gallery

March 5th, 2008 admin

 

The Pop Art Machine processed its first feature film! This is the first in a series of cinematic manipulations at the Pop Art Machine and we hope you find the results appealing. Do let us know, would you?

Click here to browse the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Art Print Collection

Technique:

1) Export one frame every three …

Andy Goldsworthy Photos : a Photographic Picture Book

March 4th, 2008 admin

 

Click Here to View or Download Andy Goldsworthy Photos

Andy Goldsworthy: I lived near Leeds and worked from the age of 13 on a farm right where the suburbs began — and that was very important. I was always going to be an artist, since I was a kid, but the impact that farming had was tremendous. It’s a …

The Bugs Under Your Skin

March 4th, 2008 admin

 

See round one of the bug prints … round two is already on the way and we’ve improved the object filter substantially. In the meantime, have a look!

Click here to browse the bug print catalog.

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William S. Burroughs: Posters Based on Nova Express Cover Art

March 4th, 2008 admin

 

Download free poster sized images suitable for printing at any photo finisher or on any large format ink jet printer.

Click to browse cover art based on Nova Express by William S. Burroughs

Nova Express is a 1964 novel by William Burroughs, whose plot cannot easily be described. It features Burroughs’ cut-up method of enfolding snippets of different texts into …

William S. Burroughs: Posters Based on Naked Lunch Cover Art

March 4th, 2008 admin

 

See Pop Art prints based on Naked Lunch book covers.

The redeeming literary merit of Naked Lunch is found in the biting satire and social criticism many of these episodes contain. Burroughs digests the modern American mind and spits out a wild, repulsive parade of images and characters that encapsulate the state of the 20th century. From the seedy …

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