Jeff Ladouceur Drawings

I love this artists drawings , very fluid and stylized
Jeff Ladouceur
young artist from Vancouver Island, BC.
Lives & Works in Brooklyn, NY.

http://www.jeffladouceur.org/

Javier Mariscal : Artists who blur boundaries between high and low art.

Starting from back in the days with artists such as Lichtenstein, followed by contemporary artists such as Takashi Murakami , there are the artists who works in both fine arts media, such as painting, as well as digital and commercial media.

They blur the boundaries between high and low art.
They makes us wonder what is high and what is low , and if there is any such classification.

Amongst them is Javier Mariscal ,spanish artist extraordinaire, currently his works are showing at The Design Museum in London.

Javier Mariscal ,with whom I had the honour to work with in his Mariscal Studios in Barcelona ,, is an extremely prolific , Genius artist , who started off drawing comics, back the Cobi Troupe days and went off to where many of us would love to be . Exploring Everywhere , with his own style , art and vision .

He has created tv series, furniture, designed buildings, made monuments , painted , designed cutlery or children's toys ....all with the same ease he used to draw comics , back when he started.
Unique, bold, fun , and uninhibited ,everything he creates, tells the user/viewer/buyer...this is "a Javier Mariscal" .

He can make art of a toilet (literally) and one that can is being used (!!) as much of a painting or a film. His works always amazes me and puts a smile in my mouth.

To peek at Javier Mariscal's world is very humbling and breathtaking: (here are some highlights from wiki)

In 1979, he designed the Bar Cel Ona logo , a work that would make him popular. The following year, he opened the first bar in Valencia designed by Mariscal,

In 1981, his work as a furniture designer led him to participate in the exhibition Memphis, an International Style, in Milan. In 1987, he gave an exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and participated in the Documenta de Kassel.

Throughout the 1980s, he designed several textile collections for Marieta and Tráfico de Modas and exhibited at the Vinçon salon in Barcelona.

In 1989, Cobi was chosen as the mascot for the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. The mascot was the centre of great controversy because of its vanguard image, although time has shown its creator to have been right and now Cobi is recognised as the most profitable mascot in the history of the modern games. He later created the cartoon series The Cobi Troupe.

He opened the Estudio Mariscal in 1989 and has collaborated in several projects with designers and architects such as Arata Isozaki, Alfredo Arribas, Fernando Salas, Fernando Amat and Pepe Cortés. His most notable works include the visual identities for the Swedish socialist party, Socialdemokraterna; the Spanish radio station Onda Cero; Barcelona Zoo; the University of Valencia; the Lighthouse Centre for Architecture and Design in Glasgow, the GranShip Cultural Centre in Japan and the London postproduction company, Framestore.

In 1995, Twipsy was chosen as the mascot for the Hanover 2000 Expo. The success of this mascot led to the Twipsy series, in which the star is a virtual space messenger and the action is set in Internet.

All the while he also designed the Amorosos Furniture collection for the Italian manufacturer Moroso

In 2002, his multidisciplinary career culminated with the integral design of the Gran Hotel Domine Bilbao, nestling between the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the ria, the creative concept of which is based on reflecting the history of design of the 20th century.

He did the interior design of the GHDB with Fernando Salas, who also collaborated in Calle 54 Club, a project in which Fernando Trueba (famous Film Director) also forms part and which provides Madrid with a live space where the most prestigious Latin jazz musicians perform, such as Bebo Valdés and Paquito d’Rivera.

Madrid is also the home of Hotel Puerta América, belonging to the Silken Group, a project in which the best architecture and design studios of the moment participated. Estudio Mariscal and Fernando Salas were responsible for the interior design of the eleventh floor.

Another sample of his interdisciplinary vocation is the audiovisual show Colors, which premiered in Barcelona in 1999 and starred the robot Dimitri, another of Mariscal’s creatures. The script of Colors has been adapted for the frequent conferences on design he gives all over the world which, rather than conferences are entertaining pocket shows marked with humour and tenderness.
Some of his most recent works, which he continues to combine with his artistic task, are the image of the Spanish financial institution, Bancaja; that of the 32nd America’s Cup, of the new brand of bags for Camper, Camper For Hands, as well as the interior design of the Ikea Restaurant in Vitoria.

In 2006, he participated in ARCO with the sculpture, Crash!, a homage to the optimist design of the 1950s and a way of telling us that that confidence in the future has exploded because now we need to think about how to make a future possible