Category: ART

March 3, 2015 at 7:11 pm

16 Creative Sketches That Incorporate Everyday Objects

16 Creative Sketches That Incorporate Everyday Objects

In an ongoing series called “Sunday Sketch”, Christoph Niemann incorporates everyday objects in fun and creative ways, playing with perspective and reimagining the objects as something else entirely. Niemann is an illustrator, artist, and author. His work has appeared on the covers The New Yorker, Time, Wired and The New York Times Magazine. Since…

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March 2, 2015 at 3:44 pm

Picture of the Day: The Architect

Picture of the Day: The Architect

Artwork by ERIK JOHANSSON Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Prints “The Architect” is the latest photo manipulation by artist and photographer Erik Johansson (featured previously). According to comments by Erik on his official Faecbook page, the image was created over the course of two months and involves numerous individual elements photographed…

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March 2, 2015 at 2:39 pm

805 Million Names – Zlatan Ibrahimovic

805 Million Names – Zlatan Ibrahimovic

On 14 February 2015, Paris Saint-German played against Caen at Parc des Princes. For most players this game was just another day on the job. For Zlatan Ibrahimović this was his most important game to date. Underneath his sweater he had 50 new names tattooed (temporary, not permanent). Names of people he’d never met,…

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March 2, 2015 at 10:29 am

23 Mind Bending Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

23 Mind Bending Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

[Huckleberry Fine Art] Artist Rob Gonsalves was born in Toronto, Canada in 1959. During his childhood, he developed an interest in drawing from imagination using various media. By age twelve, his awareness of architecture grew as he learned perspective techniques and began to do his first paintings and renderings of imagined buildings. After an…

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February 26, 2015 at 3:03 am

Banksy’s First Art Project of 2015 was a Trip to Gaza

Banksy's First Art Project of 2015 was a Trip to Gaza

Street artist and provocateur Banksy has just released his first project of 2015. The artist recently shared some new artworks and a mock travel video from his recent trip to Gaza. This is not the first time Banksy has ventured to Palestine. In 2005, Banksy created nine images on the Israeli West Bank wall.…

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February 24, 2015 at 11:00 am

Artists Recreate the Flying Dutchman Ghost Ship with Water and Light

Artists Recreate the Flying Dutchman Ghost Ship with Water and Light

Romanian Art collective Visual Skin recreated the legendary Flying Dutchman ghost ship for the Amsterdam Light Festival which ended in January. The mythical ship originates from 17-century nautical folklore and the Flying Dutchman is said to never make port, doomed to sail the oceans forever. Anchored in front of the ARCAM Amsterdam Centre for…

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February 23, 2015 at 3:00 pm

Picture of the Day: Pick Yourself Up and Pull Yourself Together

Picture of the Day: Pick Yourself Up and Pull Yourself Together

Artwork by Alex Chinneck British artist Alex Chinneck reveals his latest illusory artwork in collaboration with Vauxhall Motors. Following 2014’s ‘floating building’ in Covent Garden, ‘Pick yourself up and pull yourself together’ sees the artist hang a new Vauxhall Corsa 15 feet in the air while still attached to the road at London’s Southbank…

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February 23, 2015 at 11:14 am

17 Miniature Chairs Made from Champagne Corks

17 Miniature Chairs Made from Champagne Corks

The winners of the annual Design Within Reach Champagne Chair Contest were recently announced and this year’s pool of entries outdid themselves once again. The rules of the contest are simple: Use any or all of the materials (except glass) from no more than two (2) champagne bottles. Glue is the only permitted adhesive.…

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February 21, 2015 at 4:07 pm

Picture of the Day: Canadian Gothic

Picture of the Day: Canadian Gothic

Photograph by Bethe (@PuzzleBethe on Twitter) In this fun photo, twitter user @PuzzleBethe and her husband recreated Grant Wood’s famous 1930 painting American Gothic, with a Canadian twist. The real painting is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Fun fact, although many believe the man and woman to be husband and…

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February 17, 2015 at 4:28 pm

The Incredible Dioramas of Satoshi Araki

The Incredible Dioramas of Satoshi Araki

Japanese artist Satoshi Araki builds amazing dioramas with astonishing levels of detail. From the rust on a car to the litter on a street, the level of realism in each of his artworks forces viewers to really examine his works. Araki’s dioramas are most striking when he captures the effects of aging in his…

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