Big brows, great hair, and selfies sound familiar?

Well, it’s safe to say she was the first with the fifty-five self-portraits she painted during her lifetime portraying her unique beauty and vulnerability. Her paintings have universal appeal in the way they address and deal with fundamental expressions of human suffering defiantly. However, despite her physical misfortune and terrible taste in her husband she still managed to dedicate her life to a bohemian sense of fun and childlike openness to life, a love of animals as well as a presence in the political revolution in Mexico at the time which makes her particularly badass and certainly explains why people are so fascinated by her still today.

It’s safe to say we are big fans here at PopUp Painting. She has become a recent feature in the female toilets at the London Art Bar too! Do not leave the venue without checking out a mural dedicated to the celebration of Frida and her artwork painted by Jessica Cheetham and Annie Dalton.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”71855,71856,71854″ img_size=”large” onclick=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]

Here are some Frida quotes to get you inspired with life

‘Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.’

‘Fall in love with yourself, with life, and then whoever you want’

‘Not fragile like a flower, fragile like a bomb’

‘You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry’

‘At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think’

‘Its not worthwhile leaving this world without having a little fun in life’

‘You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.’

‘Feet what do I need you for when i have wings to fly?’

‘At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.’

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Have you ever been inspired to paint but didn’t have a canvas handy? Are you an artist without a gallery to hang your artwork in?

Well, look no further. you can be your own living artwork!

Check out Jessica Cheetham for inspiration;  she uses her own face and body to create charming, humerus, and imaginative artworks.  Wanting to bridge the gap between the artist and the receiver, she believes that art is something that should be interacted with and immersed in rather than observed.

Using the body as a canvas anything is possible. You can be an Avatar in the morning, have lunch with Liechtenstein and go to bed with a Klimt’s kiss.

‘I love the impermanence of working this way, it helps remind me to be present to the magic of creating as it will soon be washed away.’

So grab a mirror or the person next to you and get painting… step into a new character, a new you, and have fun! Also, check out her abstract work and art direction.. on track to be creating alternate universes.

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Rene Magritte (1898–1967) was famed for his surreal works that inserted commonplace objects into unfamiliar and uncanny scenes. Some reoccurring icons within his work included clouds, pipes, bowler hats, and green apples. With his pictorial and linguistic puzzles, Magritte made the familiar disturbing and strange, posing questions about the nature of representation and reality.

Magritte began his career as a graphic artist and abstract painter, but his work underwent a transformation in 1926, when he began to reinvent himself as a figurative artist. In September 1927, Magritte moved to Paris to be closer to the French Surrealist group. His three years there would be the most prolific of his life. Surrealism, a movement led by André Breton, sought to liberate the mind by subverting rational thought and giving free rein to the unconscious. Until the late 1920s, Surrealist painting had tended toward a style of biomorphic abstraction, often achieved through automatic techniques supposedly outside the artist’s conscious control, as advocated by Breton. Magritte, by contrast, pursued a figurative style.
A signal development of Magritte’s time in Paris was his word-paintings, in which he sought to investigate the relationship between text and image, often breaking apart well-worn connections between the two. Image and language interrupt one another, challenging artistic conventions of representation and urging viewers to ask which, if either, is more “real” than the other.
Magritte reimagined painting as a critical tool that could challenge perception and engage the viewer’s mind. His was a method of severing objects from their names, revealing language to be an artifice—full of traps and uncertainties.

We will be featuring Rene Magritte all week on our Facebook and twitter pages, but in the meantime here is a selection of our favourite works by the artist:

Born in St Petersburg, Béraud moved with his family to Paris after the death of his sculptor father. From 1871 he studied under Léon Bonnat. He worked initially as a portrait painter, turning at the end of the 1870s to depictions of daily Parisian life and genre scenes painted in a naturalist style.

In the 1890s he started to paint religious scenes set in contemporary settings. He exhibited at the Salon until 1889, and was a founding member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, where he exhibited from 1890 to 1929.

He loves a challenge and this is a BIG one.

Wyland’s goal is to publish one colouring book per month, celebrating a different famous person each day that inspires him. 
That’s 365 new drawings in his unique gesture portraits style!

Colouring books are known to reduce stress and anxiety, these books are truly unique in style, delightfully therapeutic and will provide entertainment and reduce stress.

For an interactive twist- download a free “QR Scanner» to your mobile phone and scan the code on each page. A video will show you the beginning of Wyland’s drawing and unique gesture portrait.

Relax and have fun while you celebrate your birthday, your friends or family’s or the birthday of your favourite icon.
Join Wyland on a creative and colourful journey! Try different methods, combine them, let your mind explore and let your imagination guide you. Use coloured pencils, markers, chalks, stickers, collage, words, etc…

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