Simen Johan

15.06.09

I often come across uncredited imagery and spend hours and hours trying to track down the artist responsible. I am supremely satisfied having finally found, Simen Johan.

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23 Responses to “Simen Johan”

15:06:09 Lightning Heart:

mmm yep, definitely a favourite artist of mine, brilliant work!

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15:06:09 Mark Cullen:

These are great, but I have a general aesthetic question that I hope someone can answer. Why is animal imagery becoming so prevalent (consuming?) among young artists?

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- 15:06:09 lapetitefaon:
  
  Ditto Mark. Personally I think I resonate so much with animals because their life often stands as the direct antithesis of the things I wish I could change about mine, I live in a huge sprawling city, I never get to hangout in the grass, I have a job that doesn’t connect in the least to my basic survival (nothing to do with food production, shelter, clothing, etc.) I guess I feel a little disconnected from the world sometimes and animals stand for a creature that is connected. I am getting a bird tattoo in a bit and a jellyfish and realized I need to stop after that before my arm becomes a sleeve of animals!
  
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- 15:06:09 Meghan:
  
  Good question, Mark. I often wonder the same thing.
  
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15:06:09 dale:

This person and the girl that gives horses beautiful hair-dos need to do a collaboration.

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- 21:06:09 jeffhamada:
  
  haha yea that would be the perfect fit actually
  
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15:06:09 Stephen Mellor:

Slightly spooky, very dreamy.

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15:06:09 Daniel Y.:

I can’t stop staring at the one of the deer. I keep looking at it as a painting with the colors dripping down from the body of the deer. It’s beautiful.

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15:06:09 suzisadler:

i think i need that hair-bear in my living room.

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15:06:09 bolt:

I’m used to encountering same problem (not knowing who the artist of a certain image is), but since I use Tineye.com I’ve managed to find pretty much everything…

hope that can help you

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- 15:06:09 jeffhamada:
  
  yea tineye still doesn’t always work! but as time goes on it can only get better as more of the internet is indexed
  
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16:06:09 emily:

its good, and i love some of them loads, but i have a real problem with with the sparkly pedestalls

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- 16:06:09 jeffhamada:
  
  i didn’t even notice that, yea those are horrible. with the stars and everything
  
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  - 20:06:09 wendy:
    
    I think it’s meant to be tacky. LIke a circus thing. I mean it’s a wolf, with hair extensions and looks like crystals in the hair for gods sake. a scary fairy tale animal put on beauty display. the glitter and stars totally works for me. maybe little red riding hood took control over the wolf instead of the opposite.
  - 20:06:09 jeffhamada:
    
    to me, the tackiness undermines the rest of the pieces which show no elements of the intentional tackiness. its inconsistent.
  - 21:06:09 wendy:
    
    did you see his llama with a poodle haircut? or the foxes that are crying?
  - 21:06:09 jeffhamada:
    
    yea i did and i’ve read that Johan’s work is about the relationship between the real and the artificial and i just feel it still addresses that relationship without the use of a circus platform. the other works are more subtle which i like.
17:06:09 nerdski:

Hair cut.

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09:09:09 Jason:

Found this thru Sci-Fi Orama.

That deer piece is sublime!

As if the deer had time to get old and grow its hair, rather than get shot… and eaten.

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