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Maiyashu's new picture book explores how people relate to their hometowns in a breathtaking way

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This story is inspired by my experience of migration in China and leaving China," they explain. "I To enter the Central Academy of Fine Arts, I spent many years of my life learning traditional and academic painting," they reveal. For Maiyashu, this picture book is particularly relatable.

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Wenching Tang's elegant illustrations are an expression of her introverted personality

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Just take the illustrations of Wenching Tang, which draw inspiration from the likes of Picasso and Matisse to effortlessly depict subjects using simple lines and shapes. I also take inspiration from Toulouse-Lautrec's bold compositions in printmaking posters, plus Reńe Gruau's minimal and contemporary illustrations."

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Beyond the Brand: new Warhol exhibition unearths rarely-seen art treasures

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As art historian and museum curator Joachim Pissarro's accompanying essay explains: "Ads is a masterful culmination of Warhol's career-long interest in the blurred lines between commercialism and fine art, and it resituates these omnipresent themes into a new state-of-the art array consonant with this late era's zeitgeist.

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Enchanting Realms: Nature, Fantasy, and the Poetic Illustratons of Magda Boreysza

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New Orleans-based artist Magda Boreysza draws inspiration from nature, mythology, folk tales, and medieval painting. My primary medium is drawing, but I also work with textiles, sculpture, and printmaking. I studied traditional animation techniques at the Edinburgh College of Art and hold a Master of Fine Arts degree.

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Class of 2022: A guide to all the UK's graduate shows this summer

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Students at Glasgow School of Art. Left to right: Billy Paterson (Communication Design Y3), Jihye Baek (MFA 2022), Fleur Connor (Painting and Printmaking 2022), Sophie Ammann, Leonie Hiller (Communication Design 2022). 22 Men by Emma Williams, MA Art and Science (Central Saint Martins). Degree Show , Slade School of Fine Art.

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Playfully sinister works by the Cameron Twins challenge our connections with our past selves

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Old paintings, childhood drawings and Barbie dolls are just some of the raw materials used in the multidisciplinary works of the Cameron Twins , an identical duo of creatives whose garish art playfully explores dreams, the imagination, and the role that nostalgia plays in shaping our lives.

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The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

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We've hand-picked ten unique, original, inspiring reads for creatives you may not have thought of. His trained eye picks out the relevant details, helping us both understand the featured artists on a deeper level and giving us ideas and inspiration for dressing ourselves more imaginatively. What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter.

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