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Exciting and true articles about art and creative culture!

With the x-working art magazine we want to keep you always up-to-date with regards to your art form and provide you fresh information on relevant news and insights in your scene. We write about current events, celebrities and important happenings in your area. Enjoy reading and let us entertain you.

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Lydia da Silva´s Palette Art Gallery from inside, (c) Carina Lochner

Interview with Lydia da Silva

Cape Town

South Africa

Crafts + Sculpting

Jeremy Deller`s instructions for leaving the social network Facebook

Jeremy Deller and his Anti-Facebook Campaign

London

United Kingdom

Decorations + Installations

Palm Black Tattoo Studio

Cape Town

South Africa

Body Art

Montebello Design Centre in interview with x-working - from right to left: Tessa, Philip and Ulrich (Montebello Design Centre) and Marijna (interview partner x-working)

Interview with the Heads of the Montebello Design Centre

Cape Town

South Africa

Traditional Design

Interview with the South African Artist Mtini

Cape Town

South Africa

Painting

TRADITIONAL ART

The art magazine with regards to Traditional Art includes all classic art forms, which are not produced by a computer and which are not part of Modern Art and Performing Arts. These in particular include Cooking Culture, Literary Arts, Esoteric & Spirituality, Crafts, Martial Arts, Piercings & Tattoos, Traditional Music and Classics as well as Traditional Designs such as Architectural Design, Fashion Design and Jewellery Design.

The Kabbalah

Have you ever seen someone in your circle of friends and acquaintances who wears a red thread around the wrist? The red thread is to remind Kabballah proponents on how to find true fulfilment in life. Just the sight of the red thread is to prevent negative thoughts. What is Kaballah and what do their followers believe? We go further into these questions.

The Ying Yang symbol represents the white and the black karma, which is in equilibrium

What is Karma?

Having a “good karma” is often heard. Karma literally means "action", "operation". So the law of karma refers to the law of action, but also the consequences of certain actions. We drill down on the meaning of Karma.

Bando

x-working interviewed exciting artists on the Carnival of Cultures 2016 in Berlin. There was one band named Bando that are not only percussion artists, but also a registered association in youth work. Bando plays music that was especially composed for Bando. An interview with Sabine and Till, co-founders of the hardcore percussion group.

MODERN ART

Modern Art refers to avant-garde and contemporary art. There are Body Art, Decorations, Installations, Interior Design, Painting, Drawing and geometric art architectures in the context of the art magazine. The scope here is certainly very broad and also refers to newer art forms such as Grafitti and Wall Art. Painting with its various art styles is at the center within the art form Modern Art.

Georg Baselitz

He is one of the most famous graphic artists of the present. Georg Baselitz is one of the few Germans who had solo exhibitions at the MoMA, New York. The 79-year-old still does not have any plans to retire. Now the Ernst Barlach Museum in Wedel presents his latest exhibition "Gebrochene Helden".

Bagelheads, Full Body Tattoos and Piercings

Their wearers refer to body art. For many, the extreme styles of body art, however, are rather creepy events. We present the trends of the body modification scene and look behind the curtains of extreme body art artists.

Bodypainting for pregnant Women

It is the magic pride of moms. For 9 months, everything revolves around it and the life that is developing inside: the baby tummy. Reason enough for many women to keep it in the course of a compulsive baby pose-photoshooting for eternity. With body colours and a lot of artistic creativity, bodypainting creates a very individual souvenir of pregnancy.

DIGITAL ART

The art dimension Digital Art within the art magazine covers all forms of art that are primarily and mainly produced by the help of one or more computers. These include DJing, MCing, Live Acts, LJs/VJs, Electronic Bands, Video Productions, Photography and Digital Design. With last-mentioned rubric it becomes clear that with regards to the categorization of art forms to Digital Art the digital creative process gets relevant opposed to Traditional Design.

Virtual Body

Where once colour application and brushwork were of interest, today there are GIF files, encryption codes and ASCII. Since a long time, art has not only been developed analogously and with brush strokes. However, digital art also changes the self-perception and the representation of corpuses. About digital art and its possibilities:

Not only on mobile, a suitable navigation is a major, on desktop, it is also important.

Responsive Design revolutionizes Navigation!

A well-structured and -designed navigation is the most important requirement for the usability of a website. It leads the user to relevant areas and indicates its locations. With the marching in of responsive web design now, many new navigation patterns are possible and thus solve old principles and standards for design development.

Tangerine Dream

After the death of Edgar Froese (2015), the founding member of Tangerine Dream, it has become very quiet around the electro pioneers. However, they still exist as usual in a new setup. We look back on the impressive path of probably one of the most important representatives of electronic band music.

PERFORMING ARTS

Performing Arts refers to all art forms, in which a performance on a stage is the final result. The art magazine includes Acting, Theater, Dance, Vocal Art as well as Biking, Skating & Surfing, since even in these art forms a performance in a broader sense takes place. Erotic Art completes the art dimension Performing Arts in an elegant way aside of a primary need satisfaction.

Here a modern dancer performance in her studio

The Trend Towards Modern Dance

In many large cities, there are now dance schools offering modern dance. However, what is modern dance exactly? Is it a dance with time, or does it contains of classical dance elements? We keep ourselves busy with it.

Today opera is beeing performed in huge opera houses, such as the Sydney Opera House.

The History of Opera

One reaches the roots of opera via the Theatre of Ancient Greece. At that time one already interlaced scenic actions with music. In modern times, it was then believed that the lyrics should be sung. Many composers wanted to represent reality and to reflect these in a critical way with their plays. However, many times the audience was too strenuous. A journey through time.

The best Dance Schools in the World

There are countless dance schools worldwide with different styles and techniques. From ballet to ballroom dancing, everyone can find the dance, which suits her or him. However, the best dance schools differ in the number of those who have made it, for example, to Broadway, in the various offers of dance styles or in the far-reaching history, on which the school can look back to.