so basically i saw some of this guy's work on another blog, freaked out, went to his website and proceeded to spend a serious amount of time looking through all of his art. he's located in manchester, england (which is sick) and he's only 26 (which is impressive). he just graduated from college for fine art a few years ago and has already had quite a number of shows around europe, as well as being published in 8 different books and magazines.
he draws inspiration from fashion magazines, animation stills, comics, the internet and his own work to create art that he feels "registers a visual 'peak shift,' a term given to the phenomena of 'neurological attraction' that appears in both humans and animals to an extreme characterization of an object." it's also been suggested as one of the "10 universal laws of art," and while some use the concept for advertising, roper utilizes it to trigger neurological hyperactivity. how stimulating!
not to mention, roper can legitimately do any kind of fine art, and well. he paints, draws, does graphic design, sculpture and film. his concepts are innovative and mind-blowing, and all of his work is super colorful, which makes me want to just fill my future-apartment with his art. no, seriously. this one is definitely my favorite:
the last noteworthy thing you should definitely see is roper's collaboration with robert bailey from 2005, which consists of 3972 images "collected by typing each word from a pocket dictionary into an image search engine and saving the first image to appear. if there were two definitions, the first two images were saved, and so on" (below). what a sick idea. i just wonder how big it was in real life, but i couldn't find any measurements on the website.
in other words, james roper is awesome.
inspired by: http://blog.freepeople.com/
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