WHAT I’M LOOKING AT TODAY; MARCEL DZAMA
August 16, 2008 4:07 pm Videos
If I was to get a tattoo it would probably be a character by Marcel Dzama. Some of you may already know of him from his album cover for Beck’s Guerro. He is a truly original artist from Canada who tends to merge and mutate people and animals creating something in between the two. His creatures are terrifying and adorable at the same time.
It is because marcel Dzama’s characters are not quite human that they are able to do strange things. From the playful and violent to the sexual, yet still get away with it. I was always turned off by art history as a student. I felt it was time that could be spent drawing or experimenting instead of writing essays about long gone art heroes. Now however, I wish I could put more knowledgeable words to describe what some art makes me feel. I guess you could call this art surreal. All I know for sure is that even if his work is dark or sad its always playful and draws me in.
Mxxxx
ana.banana :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
Marcel Dzama is so talented . I got to know is work by one friend who likes this kind of arts.
thank you to share your passion for his work with us!
“another tattoo” ?????
do you have a tattoo?
that would be a very original idea !
xxx take care
ana
Danny :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
lovely work!
and the fact that he’s from Canada makes him even more awesome.
Andrea :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
Where do you find everything Mika?
Why not get a tattoo? Somewhere discreet maybe…one of the illustartions would be lovely in the right place..dont tell your mum I encouraged you though! LOL
xoxox
Maria :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
Once more, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us
at the moment I am really tired after working a triple shift, and in some hours I’m doing a double shift, so I needed some joyful “brain food”, which I think your blog is
take care
JoseOle :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
Hehe I love the van in the last pic! XD
N o o w ii LOVES meeekkss :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:17 pm
Woww, i like the first one - the way he puts these monsters xD. Thats really cool, how the hell do you discover people like these!
Haha thanks.
Noowii love
Take care
Sylvana :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
Hmm the artist (MARCEL DZAMA) is nice too :P..hahaha ;)..
Xx Sylvana
Linde :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:28 pm
Wow, those designs are very original. Something different than the trashy things such as names and dragons you see these days
I especially like the first, second and fourth.
xx
Devi :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
sweet! i think that type of art is really cool and unique! i think i actually might have heard of him! idk… so is meeks thing about getting a tatoo> xD
sheena :-O fae glesga :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
i always loved art but it pissed me off when in school we were told to draw birds or flowers so eventually after having to stand outside class in school for refusing to draw shit for years i gave up drawing
i do love these drawings though esp the 3rd 1 down where the guy is being hanged & the woman with the tree stump on her head it made me laugh ,do i seem sick in the head for chuckling ? …. maybe i am lol
alice :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
wow Mika
he is very talented, just like you
i love his artwork
hope you are well
all my love
hertfordshire’s number 1 MIKA fan
alice
xxx
Romi :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:37 pm
Mika, i loved those drawings…and I really like the cover of Guerro
I like those things that are a bit apart from reality, it has his of magic, and something of uncommon, just like some music and specially your music…
Those designs are really nice for tattoos, though I really like the one I already have. I was thinking of a second one with a Dawack style, still not decided the final drawing choice yet
As long as you don’t get tattooed someone else’s initials…that’s not good at all. Not that I’m jealous, it’s NOT really a good choice
suerte! besos
Romi
Pianogirlsammy :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:38 pm
Thanks for sharing mika.
ALl of these art and music blogs really show us who you are,
Thanks again!
peace,love,music!!!!
-sAmMy rAe ;D (From the states! PLEASE RETURN!)
Romi :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:39 pm
I forgot the word ” quota ” between ‘his’ and ‘of magic’ xDDD
I’m always making that kind of mistakes
Lynn :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
I had to laugh at this one becuse it reminded me of when I was younger my brother and I used to create and draw little mystical creatures. Most of them were a merge of human and animal. We obsessed with cats though so they featured in most of our pics. I never would have thought of them as tattoos!
I guess these would be very different!
Im still baffled as to how you find these things!
marlau_20zr :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
i really like tatoos but in other people lol
i don`t know but i kind of scared of getting one yet
maybe when i grow up i`ll get one ^^
pd: we want to see you here mikaa!
pd2: say hi to adele lol
just kidding :p
rosedewitt :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
i was also thinking if i was getting a tattoo one day.. well i decided i don’t get, but if, it would have been the freddie mercury statue in montreux:
http://de.tinypic.com/view.php?pic=11i2wld&s=4
dunno who the girl is, but i like her tatto
however, never heard before of dzama, but he seems to be an interesting artist (i’m also interested in painters because my mother is also one).
hugs!!! i dreamed of you last night
guylainem123 :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:49 pm
on the first drawing… the caterpillar could wear your louboutin shoes all at once. ;o)
Mika, in case you disappear for a few days, i just want to wish you a Happy Birthday! 1/4 century WOW hehe
p.s. i think you should make a blog where people can send you their birthday wishes… otherwise you’ll find them everywhere!
xx
sariflor :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
I love Squid Man
elaine :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:57 pm
first one reminds me of something,have to go think now, thanks mika x
question :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 5:02 pm
Is there a video attached to this blog, or is the category “videos” for another reason?
ps I do like Dzama’s art too, but can’t really explain why.
laurence :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 5:02 pm
Je ne le connaissais pas mais j’aime bien! Aaaaah ça fait du bien de voir plein de nouveaux dessins sur cette page!! Merciii pour cette découverte!
Lena ( LenaMik) :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 5:08 pm
Hi MIKA,
I think, that I the layman in modern art art)). Me brought up in love to Rembrandt (I do not know how to write in English names of other Great and Eternal Artists)). From modern artists it is pleasant Dali, whether though it is possible to name now its modern?).
Boys with the knifes, hung up… It is gloomy a little… But figures like me.
Love
Lena
XOX
carlotaa :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 5:09 pm
Wow, he’s talented! I knew him from the guero artwork, but I never searched any longer about him…
Really good drawings, he’s got something different and interesting there!:D
Thanks for sharing!
Carlota
[Neiobi@MFC]
Portugal
Mikafan12 :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 5:14 pm
Cool! I had to do this thing at school where you had to morph different parts of bugs like, spiders, caterpillars, scorpions, etc. Mine look freaky and someone said that the head of bug look like a bum! I burst out laughing, and my art teacher was behind me. If i got a tatoo it would be you meeks, but have a fear of needles and im not old enough yet. I hate being 13!
Bev :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 5:20 pm
His creatures remind me of the ‘fawn’character,’Tumnus’ from ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’- very cool,thank u!Love it!
oh oh oh…have a fantabulous pre- birthday weekend!
xxxx
bernardita (ARGENTINA) :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 5:20 pm
wuau did not know this artist!
is amazing!
I love everything this type of work between people and animals is very exotic and beautiful.
Watch estube looking in on google and found this photo, is very good! what I want on the wall of my house!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/Hhyaena/2005DZAMA1856.jpg
yes, it subrrealista, but conveys things that are very realistic and I can not see him sad, for me, is very exotic and funny, is cool!
besos mika
cuidate
y veni a la Argentina este año por favor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gabriel :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 5:22 pm
You a tatoo? no way? cant be..i mean they are art and all, thoug to have it for the rest of your life til you get OLD and SAGGY would be so what gross. i like my baby skin!!!!!!!!
virginie :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 5:22 pm
It’s a little bite special !!
Hum ….
And you would like to make a tatoo one day ???
Love
Virginie
Gabriel :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 5:23 pm
oh yea, happy early B-DAY!
amO* :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 5:46 pm
He is very good! (L)
BESOOOOS MIKA!!
Findingmywords (Vanessa) :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 5:48 pm
Wow.. I love drawing one and four. They’re magnificent.
And I agree with you about the art history part
I love all of the art that you post.. Most things that you show us, I always fall in love with. The music and art.
You have wonderful taste, in my opinion.
Thanks!
Love yeh
Nadina :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 5:52 pm
I adore the 3rd one, but I don’t know why.. It gives me a strange feeling, almost scares me..
Thanks Mika! X
Ida Sakura :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 5:53 pm
that is awsome! i was interrupeted by my sister while looking at the drawlings….grrrrrr…..
anyways thoese r awsome
plz come to texas!
-Ida
Pudding :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 5:56 pm
The first drawing makes me laugh, I mean the contrast of naked/not naked and with/without bowknot thing seem very interesting.But it is difficult for me to speak out the exact story the drawings wanna tell.I guess this is what good art is:always stimulate people’s imagination, but not define the answer ever.
Nina :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 6:00 pm
The first one is my favorite, it reminds me of the dragon you had in Paris. Well, this is not a dragon, I can see, lol. You like things that are a little bit sad and playful at the same time, don’t you? Art like this makes me think, I like it. Thanks for sharing.
Eveline :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 6:01 pm
Hi Mika!
Thanks for posting. I like the third one with the man hanging in the air. It’s a bit scary and dark but I like it, I don’t know why lol
xx Eveline
Kajsa :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 6:07 pm
Thanks for showing me those! It looks really… Artful.
// Kajsa X
Happikali :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 6:13 pm
Thank you Mika ! Yes, this artist reminds me of Sophie Blackall … whom you also introduced us to !
http://www.sophieblackall.com/frameintro.html
love, Happikali
from Australia x
Mafaaaa :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 6:21 pm
Ahahaha !! I made a tatoo last week ! It’s just some tribal thing and it’s not… like forever… in one or two mouths it desapears . But I really would love to make a real tatoo . . . I just don’t have courage enough . =/ But I love my current tatoo . =)
Uau ! I love freak criatures . . . I’m writing a book with so many criatures and things like that, so I’m always searching for artist with freak criatures . And last week, I was in Salvador Dali museum and I loved it . . . he was such a mad man ! Lol !
I love the last picture, this sculpture behind him it’s amazing ! I would love have it in my room !
Mafaaaa,
Kisses,
***
Clemence :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
Hmmm c’est le deuxieme article ou tu parle de tattoos ^^ tu veux t’en faire un ?
Thxxxx for sharing Mika you are trop trop gentiiiiil =)
C!xxxxx! [Come in Turkeeeey please =D =)]
Curls :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 6:29 pm
I’ve always thought if i ever did get a tattoo…it would have to be one that meant something to me…a tattoo is so ‘final’ .. to commit to it and not regret it after, it would have to be something that you identify with…ive never really fancied the tattoo as an ‘accesory’…ive been toying with the idea of tattooing a small pheonix on my left inner wrist for some time now…more so prolly these few turbulent years…In terms of artists and unique characters, for me there is Tim Burton. I just absolutely adore him…no matter what he draws, no matter how dark and bleak..there is always that underlying innocence that i know stems from within him…i can relate to that coz i too still retain an inner innocence…ive always thought his characters being dark and innocent alike…prolly represent that ‘rude awakening’ that you go thru when you figure out that the world is not truly benign..that its full of contradictions…his films have the same ‘flavour’… love him.
tauruslady :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 6:32 pm
If you were to get a tatoo…what are you trying to say?
This artist reminds me of something, I can’t think what though…
You took the words out of my mouth about Art history, I used to fall asleep when we did this, and like you would have preffered to be doing something than reading about other artists. But I used to love watching video documentaries about other artists, than reading about them.
So you studied art? I’d love to know more about that, I love art so much!
The little elephant child in the second picture under the text is cute, weird but cute. And why do they only have one foot each?!lol
Oh and ever consider an Andy Warhol blog? I’d love to know what you think of him.
Thanks again!
-Debbie
♥♥♥
greta :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 6:37 pm
very fascinating indeed. simple almost ugly traits but provoking…dunno if I would get a tattoo however, on your precious skin be sure to stamp something like clasical form of beauty..ok, dunno why im commenting after the 3rd glass of retsina…. ^^
THANK YOU! *takes notes of this canadian guy*
sachinco :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 6:38 pm
My heart is beating faster than usual and a little itchy.
Nadu :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 6:38 pm
Wow! Those drwas are weird but cool!
Actually the last one scares me a little bit.
I don’t really like tatoos, I had a fake one once made of henna and I loved it! It was a tiny tinkerbell…
Besos!
christine c :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
Cela ne m’étonne pas que tu aimes cet artiste ! Les personnages collent bien à ton univers.
Je préfère les oeuvres d’Alan aldridge. Gràce à toi notre culture s’étoffe un peu.
Merci beaucoup
*PandaBear* :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 6:46 pm
Altough most of them are quit good……
I must say that the 3th one really gives me the creeps here!!
But my question is:
WHAT IS HE TRYING TO SAY WITH THOSE DRAWINGS?
p.s. -> Are you seriously thinking about taking a TATTOO ??!
(PLZ DON’T! :D)
With a little bit of love…
xx *PandaBear*
patricia :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
bizarre drawings , i like to know what he meant with them. i’ve had arthistoruy too but we had to learn more about buildings. it was very boring at the time, i’d rather spend that time on making things. we didn’t only draw but we also created things and my teacher didn’t like me because i never listened to his advice because i knew i was right. and he never admitted that. i wish i could show him what i make now. i wonder if he still disaprooves
christine c :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
Tiens, ici les commentaires passent.
Je n’ai pas pu le faire pour ton article sur le poète Charles Dot…
Cela me tenait à coeur de te laisser un commentaire sur ce sujet.
Sans comprendre bien les subtilités de l’anglais, j’ai cru saisir qu’il comparait sa vieillesse avec la tragédie des feuilles (elles jaunissent et tombent) Suis je à côté de la plaque ?
Et puis, ma curiosité m’a emmenée sur le web prendre des infos sur lui et là….
ESPECE DE PETIT COQUIN ! J’ai découvert ses oeuvres traduites en français qui traitent d’érection, éjaculation, exhibition et d’un certain “journal d’un vieux dégueulasse”. Je rigole ! C’est ça que tu veux nous enseigner ?
Non, j’en ai vus d’autres et cela m’amuse plutôt !
Tes articles sont toujours très intéressants et nous apportent beaucoup.
Personnellement et sans vouloir bêtement te flatter, ma culture s’enrichit d’agréable manière.
Je t’embrasse bien fort.
Kate :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 7:01 pm
Ooooh I love these! Espesh the last one, haha.
Rivendel_Mordor :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 7:02 pm
I love surrealism… Dalí, Miró… It’s like to put different worlds together, in a crazy way… Anyway, words can’t tell us everything. I writte a lot (I’m trying to write a novel) and there are a lot of things I can’t describe with words. You has to feel them… Words only are useful to comunicate with each other… If you want to live, you has to feel it, not to read it.
Besos desde España!!!
Ankmet20 :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 7:38 pm
Oh wow! Those are AMAZING!! I especially like the one where the man is hung, as morbid as that is, the colors are really striking to me and the positions and actions of the characters. really, thanks for showing this to us, this is hardcore awesome, I am totally checking this guy and his work out now.
-Kristine
SILVIA DE ARGENTINA :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 7:44 pm
YOU SCARE ME!HAHAHAHA
CUZ I LIKE NAIF ART! HAHAHAHA
DONT APPEAR WITH THAT TATOO IN FRONT OF ME!LOL
WHATEVER YOUR SKIN LOOKS SO GOOD WITHOUT TATOOS, I PREFERE IT WITH DEAD SEA MUD!LOL!
BESOS BESOS
Agatha :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 7:48 pm
wow thats really cool =)
Bianca :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 7:52 pm
HI, Meeks!
first…thanks once again for sharing all of these with us…really nice of you!
Now…I really hope that you are not planning to get a tattoo someday
…I mean it’s your choice…but I have really appreciated you for not having a tattoo like other artists do…not that I’ll stop appreciating you just for getting a tattoo…you give me lots of other reasons to appreciate you for…(do I make any sense? 
) anyway…who am I to …errr…nevermind ?… 
But I was just saying.
as for the drawings…they’re a bit tooo dark for my taste ( DON’T TURN EMO, MIKA! )…I got used to DaWack’s colourful world…
I think I should bring this comment to an end.
A bientot!
Bianca
xx
angie :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 7:55 pm
not one of my favorite… sorry. je n’aime pas vraiment le graphisme.
luv, xxx
Jess :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 7:55 pm
nice work ! Thks for sharing with us. He makes beautiful artword,I love it!
Fanny FOUCHONNERET :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 7:56 pm
Salut!
oui,bien sur que cet artiste est tres doué,mais pour ma part,j’aime moins cette univers sombre et triste;il apporte effectivement beaucoup de sensations mais trop pénible.et les dessins manquant de couleurs,meme s’ils correspondent a un sentiment de tristresse,ils ne doivent pas forcément etre toujours aussi sombre,non?
a moins que ce soit du a la technique elle-meme…
bref,je ne suis pas douee moi non plus pour exprimer mes sentiments a travers l’art,donc merci encore pour partager cela avec nous
et a bientot!
prettyflo :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 8:19 pm
Ouais, ça c’est sympa!!!!
Buuu ! :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 8:33 pm
Love
Melanie (BonjourMika1990) :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 8:35 pm
Oooh he’s cute!
and its freaky, I lay like that when I draw lol…when I was little I used to color the same way
I like that tat. idea! I already want one, but I’m gonna wait till I’m a bit older… I’m still trying to think of what to get…something cartoon like would be cool, and very fitting to my personality.
Love ya!
-Mel
Mirtilla :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 8:44 pm
You know, watching all these artists and their works makes me wonder why I don’t have not even a 1/10 of their skills..
Btw, back to topic: I like some of the drawings you posted, the third one in particular. Ok, it’s not the happiest one but I love the color tone in it, and the simple line..
xxx
Sarge :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 8:49 pm
thx a bunch. now I am scared. nice move Mika.
Roni :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 8:54 pm
his work is fantastic! i also like his fan in the bottom picture. did you notice he drew a frowning face on it? heh heh, i thought that was pretty clever. and the nutcracker on top of his cabinet behind the tree… very cool!
sarra :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 9:08 pm
I don’t know him but thanks ! I will search about him ^^
you help me SO much with my art
and about the tatto … IT HURTS you better get a henna tatto heheh
I totally understand your crazy style of art !
and totally agree that ppl should make the art and not read about it
RAK :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 9:08 pm
The tree people remind me of that Radiohead video, in the forest with the birds chasing Thom, and him turning into a tree at the end.
Wish I could remember the name of it, I’m sure later on it’ll pop into my head when i’m not thinking about it. LOL!
RAK :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 9:16 pm
GOT IT!!!
It was There There, YouTube comes in handy sometimes. Ha ha!
The first picture is kind of Beatlesque, don’t you think?
Sandra Borgia :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 9:29 pm
Hummmm…
A litlle be scary…I don´t like very much…sorry.
One question:
Why you are always thinking you don´t write very well?
You do it as you know and you do it very well, ok?
Bye
SB
Naomi :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 9:33 pm
Hmm..
Well, if you were to get a tattoo of one of his drawings, it’d definitely be different.
I think if anything, his drawings are so unusual that they make people stop and just think about what’s going on, which is better than a quick glance and no appreciation.
Benedicte :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 10:10 pm
Your description of Marcel Dzama’s Art is totally right to me.
nothing to add, just want to say that you seems to be a very sensitive person.
particularly touched by Art…who’s finding the right words to explain what you feel in the front of an artcraft. It’s so difficult to me…
Do I have to say Thank you one more time?
It became obviously now!
have a nice sunday and good time on your birthday monday. Hope you’ll share some moments with us…
gros bisous à tous
iadoremika :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 10:11 pm
That art is interesting and unique. If you did end up getting a tattoo of this man’s art, it would be pretty cool.
And I see he’s from Canada. Very nice
Oh! And in the last photo, I like how there’s a little face on the fan.
Thanks for sharing Mika =]
Kayla M. W. :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 10:41 pm
i love the third one and the last one.
seems almost abstract to me, though.
well…you should check out the book “Weiner Dog Art: A Far Side Collection” By: Gary Larson
its a personal favorite of mine..little comics then a 6 page spread of dachshund art…
Larson actually has a series of far side books.
i love all the ones i have read so far!
LELIS :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 11:01 pm
Ok….So….let’s see Mx…
Hmmm…I think Marcel Dzama is “hot” his art….I don’t know what I feel for them yet, I’ll look up info on his work and get back to you…it definatelly makes you feel something…right now, I’m feeling alot…dark comes to mind first, a bit sexual yes…funny…call me fickle…I DON’T KNOW!….truth is I keep looking at them to see something deep or moving…I guess that’s the trick…the more you look the more you want?..WHATEVER!!!!…
Sorry..have to run…it’s really 6pm here and I’m going out to celebrate being SATURDAY NIGHT!!!!…have to get ready to go out at 10pm…(yeah, it takes that long to get ready, like you don’t take hours)…I’ll have one for you ok? celebrate your birthday USA style….
LUV LUV LUV…I DO IT FOR LUV….
Lee….
7anna :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 11:12 pm
hiiiiiiii,,
its cool but i dont think ill put something like that on my body i think its too sad or too weird i dont know but people have diffrent taste right???lol.
anyway peace to all of you guys.
and mika you are amazing,,,,
salam
mari :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 11:33 pm
Good evening Mr.Penniman, I note that in these days you’re putting “a lot of meat to fire” posting that topics, just right for me!!!(THANKS).
As you understand, I have a weakness for art in all its forms,because in my opinion:art=creativity=life..I admit that the designs that today we propose aren’t exactly the maximum for my tastes, both for the colors too soft and lifeless,both for the lines that are used for plot the subject of drawings.Hybrids that the artist uses for his works, seem drawn from the hieroglyphics of the Ancient Egyptians, witch I worship for their mystery,their majesty and genius,I agree, as you write,which are surreals (fortunately!!)and clearly hovers a thin “black humor” would call, in particular the 3rd design is almost macabre…If I want to make a tattoo using the themes of these drawings,I choose the red flowers present onto the tree on left in drawing 4rd, or
one of several owls behind these “scenes”.Photos that you portray are current or repertoire? That has happened to your angelic-curls!?!?!?!? YOU CUT THEM!?!?!?!? I hope not!!!Your birthday approaches, I could not send any gift why not know where to send it, but I’ll invent something, for now goodnight, a hundred kilograms of kissesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss, 4ever MARI AND SONS
daisylou! :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 11:50 pm
Everything with you always comes back round to Beck! lololol
daisy
xoxox
**Ulrike :
Date: August 16, 2008 @ 11:52 pm
Dear Mika,
pfff, there are some creepy drawings at this blog from you, nr. 4 and 5 seems to me like you are remembering your school-time, and the bad experiences with the others in your class. Horrible feeling, the artist is shown his own experience in a simple picture, and is saying more than with words…
I’m very sorry for all who have to handle with such happenings… and have great respect for all who cope this experiences and don’t get down.
I’ve been glad that you never gave up and let you draw down by this unfair persons, they had not “win”, thanks god - and now I stop it, its going too pathetique!
Have a good night and sleep well, I always wish the best for you.
♥♥ ulrike
Amandine :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 12:10 am
C’est super créatif! Toujours de nouvelle idée géniales ^^
Bisouxxx
Rima :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 12:34 am
Have you seen his new dioramas? My friend saw this exhibit in March and was really excited about them:
http://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/148/selected_works_1.htm
And as for being trained in art historical speak, take it from someone who has an art history degree among others. I think you get your point across perfectly well. Really good art speaks for itself anyway. If you had gone to London College of Fashion or one of its equivalents like Toronto’s OCAD and done history and studio concurrently, you probably wouldn’t have your love of art intact and your feelings would instead be ambivalent and slightly inured like mine. Although, I’m sure your friends have told you that already…
ps: no tats. too addictive, unless you’re a bit of a masochist. A friend of mine started with one or two and after she got the Moulin Rouge across her back we all stopped counting. xr
daisylou! :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 1:07 am
hey check these out…made just for you Mr P!
check out number 5!….amazing what you find on the internet! ;o)….Marcel Dzama pain free tattoos!
http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/6d742842-c6db-424f-9154-86ce4c918dbf/BelieverTattoos.cfm
Am I a genius or what?…you can now try before you decide for definate!
Cya!
d
x
daisylou! :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 1:39 am
Sorry to post again but just found these too and thought they were very you!…well Marcel Dzama but you know what I mean
http://www.unicahome.com/catalog/item.asp?id=15487&PartnerID=FR
My fav of his has to be the sad ghost..awwww! Then again the liars are fun too.
d
xxx
x
Alice Stewart :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 1:53 am
GAWD MIKA:
THREE IN ONE DAY?
Emilia Mungarro :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 2:40 am
IM SCARED
….
gray skelly :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 3:00 am
Yo Mx,
Since i’ll b internetless on the beach on monday would u please have a f…ng amazingly brill b-day?
hugs
Cynthia Mulat :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 3:40 am
His art always reminded me of the characters from the cartoon version of The Lion Witch and The Wardrobe and another eerie cartoon movie from the 70’s or 60’s i can’t remember right now. Oooohh. maybe I’m thinking about this Japaneses Anime i watched a few years back called…Princess Monanoke or was it…never mind, i can’t remember. See what old age does to you? =P
I was looking at these pics for awhile trying to see the adorable side of them, and the only thing that i found remotely adorable was the thing that looks like a elephant pig with the red bow tie in the first picture. I see a lot of the terrifying though. Just wanted to try and see from your point of view.
I know that feeling, not having the words to completely express how different types of art makes you feel, it’s a bit frustrating.
I also had a hard time seeing the value in writing long essays about art. Although i did enjoying learning about the history behind artist dead or alive because i found it so intriguing but generally, i was always more of a hands-on learner.
ooo
C
The Meyer Twins :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 3:47 am
Marcel Dzama is a very talented artist. Those were so great. Being artists ourselves, it’s great to look at others artwork.
Love you bunches Mika
The Meyer Twins
Rima :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 3:47 am
Oh, and I forgot the best part; Dzama often paints with root beer. That’s how he gets that colour. So, playful, yes, but also frothy, refreshing, and sweet too!…xr
LadyGodiva :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 3:59 am
His work looks like an adult childrens book. If that were to make any sense at all….
I can create my own stories for the pictures, but i would love to hear what Marcel Dzama says about each of them, or the stories behind them.
I’m assuming he does all watercolor- very nice job with it.
I like the originality of each piece.
-L
daydreambeliever :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 4:14 am
This reminded me of a site that I reaaally liked to go on a few years ago! I don’t know exactly what in this blog reminded me all of a sudden about the site…I think it’s probably the simple, yet captivating nature of the art.
http://dirtdirt.com/dreems/
If you want to know more, look at the tiny “Confused?” link below the speech bubble. I hope you like it! It’s addicting to me. Hahah!
(Your pink shirt that says Moo also reminds me of the drawings on that site…)
Ankmet20 :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 4:33 am
K, I know I commented already, but I was studying these pictures and OMG that fan. who puts a sad face on a fan!?! GENIUS. I love it. it makes no sense..but it is so whimsical and fantastic while realistic at the same time..Would you want to spend your unanimated life stationarily chilling someone else? I wouldn’t.
-Kristine
kim :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 4:41 am
“All I know for sure is that even if his work is dark or sad its always playful and draws me in.”
That’s how I would describe your stuff.
My favorite tatoo I’ve ever seen is on my cousin — he had one of his 3 year old son’s drawings done.
All kids go through this particular drawing phase where they give everything a hundred stick arms — every time I see one, I think it should be a logo, or a tattoo!
jayna :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 4:45 am
Mika,
I don’t usually respond to blogs but that little bit you said about art history in school has been poking me while i try to sit here and read my book so I feel compelled to say something. I took art history in high school and can’t seem to stay away from taking more classes at college. I love sitting there and traveling to all these crazy corners of time, history, perspective, drama, and everything that goes into studying art. I like that I don’t have to do anything, and I’m able to just let all these things wash over me. There’s genius in creativity but there’s also genius in just being an empty vessel that can absorb all these things. In my college essay, I wrote about how I admired your music because it pays homage to the timeline that has been built before you but brings it somewhere else and seems to be an interpretation as much as a creation. ox
Nono :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 5:03 am
What’s this talk I hear about you already having a tattoo? Hmmm?
This artwork is very interesting. Thanks for sharing Me-car ;P
daydreambeliever :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 5:45 am
Oh………….wow…..Yeah, your shirt says modern…
Not moo.
…I think I’ll go jump off a bridge now. You probably had no idea what I was talking about. Hahah! Bye!
backdrop :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 6:52 am
i like the word sexual, not becaue of the meaning of it, i couldnt care less but, i like it, the boy is cute,lol just like aldridge…though there s nothing like a man who doesnt comb his hair like bukowski…hey and i wanted to tell you stgh about orthography and spelling etc. you know what its said? spelling is the science of donkeys, writing is the reflexion of you soul, i cant stand people who are fighting to keep orthography like it used to be, im fighting for the opposite, they just cant understand sometimes…xxx and i love your blogs plastic. i really do and …oh fck my pizza is burning
Sarah Habli :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 7:22 am
Great artist!!! Iam gonna try to know more about him!!
thanks MIKA!
sunshine931 :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 8:29 am
Quite interesting !
It somehow reminds me of some of Malajube’s vids… I know I always talk about those vids but they’re simply amazing imho.
Véronique
amelie :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 9:41 am
of course these drawings are pretty interesting, but pleaaaase Mika NO TATTOO, it is so….common
Helene :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 10:04 am
Le travail de cet artiste est très intéressant. Il allie à la fois des personnages humains et mi-animaux, avec des couleurs gaies. Mais pourquoi toute cette tristesse se dégage-t-elle de ses dessins ? Et c’est là que je trouve son travail intéressant : faire passer cette émotion et cette sensibilité avec des personnages loufoques ….
Beaucoup de tendresse, alors merci.
Bises
Helene
P.S. : et pourquoi pas un tattoo, c’est une idée géniale ??????? Il faut savoir se faire plaisir dans la vie …..
Rima :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 10:24 am
Another analogous artist you may find appealing is Amy Cutler.
Not sure whether you’d connect with her themes–as they are slightly different–but she’s on the same folk/Magritte/Hieronymus Bosch (with less of the naive) wavelength as Marcel, and plays with horror and humour…xr
This is my fav image of hers (because there’s an elephant):
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/08/25/style/tmagazine/28artist_slide1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2005/08/25/style/tmagazine/20050828_ARTISTS_SLIDESHOW_index.html&h=450&w=355&sz=27&hl=en&start=15&um=1&tbnid=wcv8OUCDyfq1iM:&tbnh=127&tbnw=100&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAmy%2BCutler%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DN
Netina :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 10:26 am
I really like the first drawing of M. Dzama that you’ve posted. Just like you said it’s dark but playful. It’s playfulness somehow helps me deal with it’s darker side easier.
perrine* :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 10:45 am
Hey Mika!
Where do you find all these beautiful things?
These drawings are fabulous!and…I love your haircut! ;D
See ya!
Keti :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
Great! I’ve never heard of him before,but I’ve seen Beck’s album cover and I liked it pretty much.
I like the bats the most,on the 1st pic,they’re so sweet! XD LOL
Cool you always write about these kind of people and other artist cuz I always learn something brand new! Thank you very much Meeks!!
Keti @ mfc
xxxxx
Keti :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 12:05 pm
I forgot to add : besides the bats ( XD ) I adore the third drawing…it’s really scary,and that’s how I like it the most. It’s creepy…love it.
Keti
xxx
mika_baby :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
Hey Mee,
I think I never want a tattoo on my body, even it would be your drawing~1o1
but I like to imitate painting for inspiration,and this artist is very well.
;D
have a beautiful day!
vera
vxxxx
xxxxx
Johan :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 1:10 pm
Coucou!
Je ne connaissais pas cet artiste et j’aime énormément ce genre d’univers assez sombre! J’ai toujours été fasciné par ça!
J’adore plus particulièrement le dessin numéro 3! Il est sobre et très noir! Et dans les autres c’est assez troublant avec ses personnages mi-humains mi-animaux! J’adore tout simplement!
Merci! Ca me donne envie de découvrir plus de cet artiste! Je m’en vais donc découvrir plusieurs de ses oeuvres!
Biz YéYé
ginnyg :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 1:40 pm
Bon on peut pas tout aimer! Pour ma part je trouve ces dessins angoissants à cause de la violence, des couleurs tristes… cet univers, et non le style de dessins, me fais penser (je ne sais pas pourquoi) à « Alice aux pays des merveilles »!!! Moi qui aime beaucoup les dessins animés celui-ci je n’ai jamais réussi à le regarder! Il y a des sentiments qu’on ne sais pas exprimer et d’autres que ne comprend même pas soit-même!!!
Donc désolé, mais là je n’aime vraiment pas!!! :S
Gwenaëlle!!!!
baudi :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 1:57 pm
Hej Mika,
I’ve become a fan of your blogs en vlogs! They are definitely addictive. I love your artblogs and I always read the comments because everybody’s recommending these cool artists that I’ve never heard of or forgotten about. I’m now going to watch Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (haven’t seen it in years). So whoever posted that thnx for the tip!
I think Marcel Dzama’s work is amazing. Didn’t now the Guero album cover was his work. Although some of his pictures are quite scary and dark, they appeal to me and I can look at them for a long time and still discover new things!
Have a nice birthday tomorrow and I wish you lots of succes with the recording of your 2nd album!
Ciao!
Baudi
*dreamer* :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
Hey, an interesting artwork of Marcel Dzama!! I think the mutant people personify the conflicting nature of all of us. This raw (animally), but genuine and childish side influence the individual creativity. (like “Der Steppenwolf” von Hermann Hesse)
bye bye
Gladys :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 4:30 pm
Merci Mika pour tout :o)
Encore un artiste que je ne connais pas!
L’idée de mélanger les humains avec les animaux est au final assez original… mais pour ma part, je n’aime pas trop la façon qu’il a de les dessiner (à part les arbres que je trouve assez drôle lol)…. ça manque de couleur, je ne sais pas, il y a quelque chose qui me dérange…
Donc, si tu devais te faire un tatouage ça serait un dessin de Marcel Dzama… bizarre, moi je t’aurais plutôt imaginer avec une tête de clown :o)
Bisous et bonne journée.
Marie dit TATA MARIA ou NINI loollll :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 5:20 pm
Hello tout le monde !
Pour les fans de tatoo, voici un lien du meilleur tattooeur de ma ville …
http://www.myspace.com/bellybuttontattooshop
BISOUS bon diamnche a tous
Sofia :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 5:28 pm
I on the other hand liked art history. I guess it depends on which teacher you had and what kind of assignement you did. We didn’t write essays, we looked at art, takled about it and then drawed based on our inspiration.
Do you have a tattoo? Where could it be? I’m not a big fan of them but if they are small and fun it’s ok. Otherwise it’s a big risk that you’ll get tired of them after a couple of years.
Eva :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 6:52 pm
Good drawings but seriously for a tattoo no!!! I prefer Richard Dadd
FREDDIESDOUBLE :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 7:46 pm
Wow how different
A man hanging above a snowman … errrr thats different
Hope your ok!
FDX
Cazinha :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 8:02 pm
Wow, he’s great! When you said “From the playful and violent to the sexual” I thought his work was something like Salad Fingers (that I also like), but no, it’s quite different and pretty interesting.
Love,
Carol.
Alice Stewart :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 9:57 pm
THREE IN ONE DAY!
THANK YOU,
Thank You,
thank you,
MIKA!
Ghiz :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 10:25 pm
Dark drawings :O
Digahead :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 10:44 pm
you know writing essays and experimenting are both necessary to be complete, many people only belong to one category when we are meant to be everything…on the other hand some essays are cover with dust, we have to burn them and reinvent another kind of essays, hybrid ones, yeah!
but
you certainly dont need more words,
do you really have to know that what he does is actually called faux-naïf?no.
i read a lot about his art today and you were the one who xplained it the best:
“It is because marcel Dzama’s characters are not quite human that they are able to do strange things”
and please have a look at this, i love it and maybe you might like it, id like to put direct links to the ones i prefer but the server is off now.fck.
http://www.melkadel.com/
Vicky :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 10:45 pm
So what tatoo would you choose?
gisele nunes brasil (sweet) :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 11:18 pm
why don’t you do a tattoo, mika?
I have one, and I intend to make more. full my body of cats. I love cats. do you?
BTW, I liked very much his drawnings. thanks for sharing.
Oh! BTW again, please, keep a look of this brazilian band tha made an instrumental version of relax, take it easy. I think you will love it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqYVHmKJ-6k
Megan (Yogabear90) :
Date: August 17, 2008 @ 11:31 pm
i’ve always admired people who do surreal artwork. it takes so much creativity and thought!! we had to do a surrealism peice of artwork once for my drawing class - mine had a huge bee popping out of a window and floating masks with trees growing out of water. that’s about as creative as i get. lol!
thanks for sharing all this artwork with us!! it really helps me get inspiration for this portfolio i’m working on right now.
i love you, mika!!! xoxoxoxoxoox
Megan
janet :
Date: August 18, 2008 @ 12:39 am
i have never heard of this artist before but thank you for bringing him to my attention, i do find some of his work on here very different to other artist i have seen but as in good diffrent.
Pianogirlsammy :
Date: August 18, 2008 @ 12:45 am
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVE! HAVE A GREAT TIME! THANKS FOR EVERYTHIGN!
Im having a mika party here at my house today in the united states, by the way! hehe
Making you a cake too! hehe ;D
LOOOOOVVVVEEEEE, SAMMY!
xX Gabi Xx :
Date: August 18, 2008 @ 2:45 am
HE DRAW WITH ACUARELAS!!!
LOOK SEXY IN THIS PICTURE JAJAA
I WHANT MAKE ME A TATOO BUT I HAVE AFRAID OF TATOOSS
MAYBE SOME DAY …
XX GABI XX
elanorelle :
Date: August 18, 2008 @ 7:16 am
Tree People you say! they look like they can hide in forests! what a great idea! he seems like a fab artist! you should really start a course in Modern Art ! Thanks for showing us these things! I appreciate it very much , MIKA,
much love ,xxx
Suzanne
Anne-Laure (Mystie71) :
Date: August 18, 2008 @ 12:58 pm
Hey Mika,
Cet artiste est vraiment talentueux mais si moi je devais me faire faire un tatouage ce serait plutôt un des dessins de ta soeur Yasmine!!!!
D’ailleurs, peux-tu lui demander de bien vouloir m’en faire spécialement pour moi pour justement me les faire tatouer!!! J’adore ce que fait ta soeur et tu peux lui dire que j’admire autant son travail que ta musique!! Mais un peu plus toi quand même (MDR)
I miss you
Love love me
Big kiss with all my love
See you soon
Anne -Laure
Sara :
Date: August 18, 2008 @ 3:22 pm
Ohh he’s from Canada ?
spezia :
Date: August 18, 2008 @ 7:38 pm
Son travail est intéressant mais des fois un peu trop flippant à mon goût!
Mais merci de nous le faire découvrir, c’est toujours un plaisir!
xxx
Lorena :
Date: August 19, 2008 @ 11:40 am
Buongiorno Mika
I don’t known him but he’s very good!
I think I too that this art is surreal…there are many elements for tell it!
Thank you,he’s a new for me!
KISS!!!
Lorena :-*
mikasbestfriend :
Date: August 19, 2008 @ 7:22 pm
Ooh they’re quite weird. But awsome all the same. He’s realy talented.
♥ sariflor ♥ :
Date: August 19, 2008 @ 11:47 pm
D’you know, those guys that are (I guess) meant to be trees, look like gigantic turnips!
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Anyway I will leave you with this little random bit of super exciting and interesting observation, as I am sure you will find it :=P
I hope that you appreciated it, LOL!
And I hope that you had a good birthday and that you’re not feeling too rough today.
Take care!!
xxx
Sara.
Me :
Date: August 20, 2008 @ 7:26 pm
I knew it reminded me of something.
Kara Walker?
mikim :
Date: August 20, 2008 @ 10:44 pm
Oh please Mika, never do a tattoo to you.
You’re perfect naturally. You’re above this kind of things…
Please, change nothing on you.
Tu vas t’abimer…
I’m stupid, I know, and certain fans are going to be angry against me but I don’t care…
Pleeeaaaase Mika, never change nothing on you.
jon :
Date: August 20, 2008 @ 11:06 pm
Good to see fellow Canadians getting recognition. I really like his work. It speaks to my strange sensibilities.
OLGA :
Date: August 21, 2008 @ 4:08 pm
Coucou!!
Je ne connais pas cet artiste merci pour la decouverte!!
Je n’aime pas trop ses dessins je les trouves triste et etranges
Mika as tu l’intention de faire un tatouage ? si oui j’espere quon auras une petite photo hein …
Prend soin de toi et pas trop de bêtises
Love
Olga
natalie (England) :
Date: August 24, 2008 @ 5:41 am
its cool to see other art like this
I like all of them and the 3rd one is very mysterious..but interesting! 
xx Natalie
Natalie :
Date: August 24, 2008 @ 11:31 am
i dont like tatoos,but i must said these pics a pretty fucking good
AnnaMariaPetra :
Date: August 25, 2008 @ 12:39 pm
This website might interest you: http://www.sleevesclothing.com/index.htm
I read an article in our local newspaper and thought of this blog.
yasmine (Circassian) :
Date: August 28, 2008 @ 6:09 am
Hmmmmmmmmmmm scery but good! liked them
isorelis :
Date: September 13, 2008 @ 1:44 am
que talento,,, en verdad es presioso todo lo que hace ,es muy prestijioso
Nat :
Date: October 2, 2008 @ 10:49 am
Mika, please, please don`t get a tatoo. You`re enough special for not needing a picture on your skin and too special for doing somethng that so many people do as if it were different (it isn`t different anymore).
Bojana :
Date: October 14, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
Oooh, that’s amazing!
It seems to me like “male” version of some Blackall paintings, if I can put it that way.These are so witty, mysterious and dark at the same time.
Thanks for posting them Mika!!
Much love,
Bojanaxxxx
danii :
Date: October 21, 2008 @ 10:09 pm
woow ! i think so much like you ! i always draw in clases and create my own cartoons (what’s the point studing about indians who lived in New Spain? THEY ARE DEAD NOW!, that’s what i’m studing in history class right now haha) im not jocking ! haha i hope someday i’ll be a well-known artist and maybe we can meet ;D haha..