Roberto Bernardi is a hyperrealistic still life painter from Italy. Born in Todi in 1974, Bernardi first work in oils date back to the early 80s. In 1993 Bernardi moved to Rome where he worked as a restorer in the church of San Francesco a Ripa. After an initial foray with landscapes and portraits,…
On January 16, 2008, Flickr announced the start of an ambitious project called, The Commons. The key goals of The Commons are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world’s public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer. This past January, The…
Every winter, artists from around the world gather in Jukkasjärvi, northern Sweden, for an art project that has become known as ICEHOTEL. It is the world’s first and largest hotel built of snow and ice. Jukkasjärvi is a small village in northern Sweden with a population of 900 residents and about 1000 dogs. Each…
Liu Bolin is an artist from China’s Shandong province. Born in 1973, he currently lives and works in Beijing. Bolin received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Shandong College of Arts in 1995 and his Master of Fine Arts from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2001. His work has…
Marta Klonowska is a Polish artist from Warsaw. Her passion is sculpture and she creates installations of her amazing shattered glass animal sculptures, typically placing them in front of historical paintings from masters like Rubens and d’Agar. While the source paintings had the animals in secondary roles, Klonowska makes them the focal point. As…
Photograph by Bence Bakonyi Photograph by Bence Bakonyi Photograph by Bence Bakonyi In this series, entitled Transform, Hungarian photographer Bence Bakonyi blends his subjects into the background by matching the colour of the item of clothing with the background it is situated against. He then captures the scene at just the right…
The World Photography Organisation just revealed the shortlists for the Professional, Open and Youth categories of the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards. In a year that saw over 122,000 entries from 170 countries – the highest number of submissions to date – the judges have selected a shortlist of photographs that stood out beyond…
Pixar animator, football fan and aspiring paleontologist, Austin Madison, illustrated an amazing series of NFL football matchups called Fantasy Football. In the series, which went viral on Reddit yesterday, teams are depicted in epic showdowns. Madison incorporates popular characters from video games (Skyrim and Halo) and popular culture (Star Wars, Chuck Norris, Bill Murray…
Brock Davis is an award-winning, multidisciplinary artist and creative director with a knack for creating ground-breaking work. Brock has worked in advertising for the past 17 years, most recently as group creative director at Carmichael Lynch. When he isn’t busy making ads he’s busy making other things, like one piece of art every day…
CONTRAST IN KRAKOW Photograph by Marcin Ryczek In this stunning black and white photograph we see a man feeding birds in Krakow, Poland. The contrast is mesmerizing and strangely reminiscent of an yin yang symbol or even a ‘spy vs spy’ comic. According to commentor genjew, this is a walking path by…
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