Contemporary Art

Me And Pixabay Once More
Introduction Since my issues started with Vocal (and they are still going on), my coffee money has dropped, although I have had tips from a supportive friend on here.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred a day ago in Art
Winter Bath
Steam floats like a cloud Hot water hugs my cold bones I sink into warmth
By Tamara Jacobs3 days ago in Art
Indian Lac bangles with the divine feminine
In the depths of the Kusum forest , there lived an old lady living beside a banyan tree in a wooden hut, known making lac bangles.
By PA Jayashree Krishna3 days ago in Art
The Crossroads of Becoming
I found it by accident. Tucked between a laundromat and a shuttered bookstore, half-hidden by ivy and time, stood a rusted phone booth. Not the sleek glass kind from movies, but an old metal one—peeling paint, cracked receiver, a dial so stiff it groaned when turned. No one had used it in years. Probably decades.
By KAMRAN AHMAD4 days ago in Art
Jo Mata's Sensory Worlds
By Brian D’Ambrosio Jo Mata’s art is a space where human experience unfolds with quiet intensity, where figures seem to breathe, reflect, and confront the viewer in equal measure.
By Brian D'Ambrosio 9 days ago in Art
Dunn & Sandwichgate
"Sandwichgate" -in this topic- refers to an incident: The 2025 acquittal of Sean C. Dunn (i.e., "Sandwich Guy") for throwing a Subway sandwich at a federal agent during Trump-era protests, while viewed as a symbol of resistance, was also scammed into existence as a misdemeanor assault.
By Reneegede711 days ago in Art
Embodied Performance and the Rise of a New Chinese Australian Screen Language
Olivia Wang in Wake Her Up — a body led screen performance recognised across international film festivals. Olivia Wang in Wake Her Up — a body led screen performance recognised across international film festivals.
By Fusion Art12 days ago in Art
Never The Queen
I'll never amount to that girl. I can never measure up. I'll never be in her shoes. Always the princess I'll be. Cause I can never measure up.
By Hay Collins12 days ago in Art
Art and the Inner Life on Man
According to some scholars, thoughts, knowledge, love and life are bounded by space and time and Man is born to deal with the problems connected with it and die. There is no escape from it and this is his destiny. If he escapes he may reach a timeless and formless pure state of perfection in the other world. The Vision of W. B. Yeats is all about that, which he symbolically expresses as a spiraling cone with the broad base representing the mortal life of man and apex representing the spiritual life of man. The map of his inner life, philosophy and religion is his vision, basing which he wrote mostly all of his poems. Among them Sailing to Byzantium and Byzantium are the simple, philosophic and difficult master pieces nobody can fail to quote. The old man in this poem faces the problems of old age, death and regeneration and finally gives his decision. He says that this world is not for the old but for the young only. Here young lovers, birds on the tree and fishes of the sea, Fish, flesh or fowl, etc. sing songs in praise of mortal sensual song without caring for the ageless intellect or wisdom, which is treated as monuments only. Here animate nature is devoid of spirit or spiritually passive. On the other hand the old man is both physically and spiritually impotent, a mere paltry thing, an effigy, tattered cloth upon a stick. But he realizes that all the monument like things are teaching him the magnificence of soul.
By mr salah12 days ago in Art
The Bench by the River
Every evening, I walked past the same old bench by the river. Its wood was weathered, gray with age, the paint long gone, and yet it had a quiet dignity that made me pause, if only for a second. I had always been in a rush—rushing home from school, rushing to finish homework, rushing to keep up with life. But that evening, something about the rain, or maybe just my exhaustion, made me stop.
By Yasir khan13 days ago in Art
Olivia Wang and the Emergence of the First Voice in Chinese-Australian Performing Arts
Olivia Wang in Wake Her Up — a body-led screen performance recognised across international film festivals. If there is one name that encapsulates the next chapter of Chinese–Australian cultural exchange, it is Olivia Wang (王欧) — an award-winning actor, producer, and one of the most compelling emerging leaders in Australia’s performing arts landscape.
By AussNews13 days ago in Art
The Night I Decided to Build My Own Universe
The Quiet Birth of a World There is a specific kind of silence that only exists at 3:00 AM. For me, that’s when the Lyonheart Universe actually started to take shape. It wasn't a sudden "lightbulb" moment or a calculated business plan; it was just a single, persistent image of a character that I couldn't stop thinking about. For months, these fragments of dialogue and half-formed scenes felt like haunting questions that I was being forced to answer through a camera lens. It didn’t arrive ready for a global audience; it arrived as a raw, messy need to tell a story that felt different from everything else I was seeing on my feed.
By Lyon Gaber14 days ago in Art