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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.

Street musicians playing guitar on the Piazza Signora in Florence, Italy.

Fascination Street Musicians

They are at home on the streets of the world. Musicians travel through cities, present their art to entertain others on roads, bridges and subway stations. Many of their texts are about freedom, desires and big dreams. As a solo entertainer or playing music in groups - street musicians belong to the image of a city and revitalize the sometimes dreary everyday life along the way.

In Salekhard opened an unusual Painting Exhibition

In tying to implement the ideas of artists, they often consider unusual materials. Such is ... wool. The exhibition "Painting out of Wool" by Irina Ostashkova (Ирина Осташкова) opened in Salekhard at the beginning of November. There the administrative center of the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district in Russia is located.

Yves Saint Laurent

He was perhaps the greatest fashion designer of our time. The most beautiful women in the world idolized him: Yves Saint Laurent. The style icon designed clothes for women that sometimes did not seem to be out of this world. Who was this man who influenced the fashion world like no other? Moreover, what happened after his death concerning the fashion empire of YSL?

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.

Naked Man – to be seen in the Park Street in Bristol, UK

Banksy

Banksy is a mystery. Banksy is political. Banksy has revolutionized the street art scene. Yet to the turn of the millennium he was a widely unknown artist who sprayed his stencil images in the UK, Israel, Mexico and in the United States on walls. Who is behind this artist who gets very much hyped on the art market, but who actually abhors it?

Work by Alice Pasquini in Salerno, Italy

Women in the Street Art Scene

In the street art scene, it is just the way that most artists are men. Everyone knows the brands from Banksy or BLEK over Frank Shepard Fairy or Sten and Lex. However, there are also internationally successful women in the scene. We introduce you four of them.

Matthias Buchinger at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

He had no arms or legs and was only 74 centimeters tall. Matthias Buchinger yet as an artist and magician traveled through the world and enchanted people. The Franconian, who lived from 1674 to 1740, is now dedicated an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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.

DJ Legend Sven Väth

He is one of the greatest DJ's worldwide. The Hessian turntable artist has constantly reinvented himself with new ideas and concepts. Meanwhile 51-year Sven Väth has exchanged his wild, excessive party life for another, quieter way of life for the music. A review.

Actor Woody Harrelson, © Gabriel Cristóver Pérez

Harrelson shows: The Live Cinema

Eventually, modern technology will make it possible to find a conceptually new approach regarding the development of filmmaking. A film shot in real-time will be shown in the cinemas at the beginning of next year.

With Photoshop flaws are to be corrected.

25 Years Adobe Photoshop

It's no secret that the photos we get see in the press and advertising were edited by an image editing software. The digital imaging has changed, so to say, as we see the world. Models can be made slimmer, Ikea moves his furniture by image processing in the right light. We contemplate Adobe Photoshop, which is the most successful image editing program in the world.

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.

Alice Phoebe Lou

Her profession is busking. It´s more than just a hobby. During last summer the Warsaw Bridge in Friedrichshain was her second home "[...] no matter how dirty and fucked up it is there." Alice Phoebe Lou stands there and sings. Moreover, about 100 people listen to her. Maybe as many as to any other street musicians here.

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.

A contortionist performance amazes the audience

The Art of Contortionists

It's amazing to look at, the way contortionists transform their bodies effortlessly to human nodes through bends, they way how they perform a balancing act or how they bend that far backwards until they touch their heads with their soles.