All Blog Posts Tagged 'Art' (184)

Ghostly Paintings on Newspaper by Shin-Young An

South Korean artist Shin-Young An paints images of women's faces on daily newspapers. Using current articles as her foundation, layers of paint form the faces that emerge out of the printed stories and photographs.…

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Added by Socratis Avgitidis on August 27, 2012 at 7:30 — 2 Comments

Helen Joseph-New Work

Helen Joseph- New Work

4th September 2012 – 9th…

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Added by neofundi on August 24, 2012 at 8:00 — No Comments

War Game by Leo Caillard

Leo Caillard is a professional photographer based in Paris, France. "In newspaper, television, film, the representation of War is everywhere in our media ; never in our everyday life, but brought back from farthest regions of the world. I decided to put it back in our reality". …

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Added by Socratis Avgitidis on August 22, 2012 at 8:18 — No Comments

Crayon Portrait by Christian Faur

Christian Faur's crayon art exemplifies a unique and exciting new technique. Instead of utilizing traditional medium such as oil paint, pastels, or watercolors, Faur turns to a material from our childhood: the crayon. Faur works with this familiar object in a novel way. Using crayons like pixels, he arranges thousands upon thousands of colorful handmade crayons into…

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Added by Socratis Avgitidis on August 10, 2012 at 8:42 — No Comments

Pencil Sketches by Randy Owen

Taylor and Rob- Twilight

Randy Owen:Artist | Hobbyist | Traditional Art

23 year old Randy Owen says:"When time allows, I enjoy practicing the craft of image-making. I favour creating celebrity portraits on paper with graphite drawing pencils. Portraying the human essence in a traditionalist…

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Added by alexandra avgitidis on August 3, 2012 at 6:00 — 2 Comments

Banksy and The London Olympics 2012

World famous graffiti artist Bansky has produced two new pieces commenting on the London Olympics. The missile throwing athlete and the pole vaulter. Bansky's work is always controversial and always effective. Can't wait for more. …

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Added by Socratis Avgitidis on July 31, 2012 at 7:30 — No Comments

Review: Underdog - Niall Bingham - at ROOM 70 Juta

Underdog - an intervention by Niall Bingham

The event last night was the unveiling of an artwork that has taken on a life of its own, having fought to get displayed in the right atmosphere and location. A number of galleries baulked at the idea in the wake of that waste of space and needless "The Spear". Its just a fucking penis…

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Added by Jozi Review on July 27, 2012 at 9:30 — 1 Comment

3D Illustrations From The Sketchbooks Of Nagai Hideyuki

Featured here is some brilliant work by the amazing Nagai Hideyuki, who creates pop up illustrations to give a 3D effect to his work through the use of two sketchbooks. By the way in which he displays his sketchbooks, we can see that these rather intricately drawn charcoal drawings form these 3-Dimensional…

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Added by Danielle on July 25, 2012 at 6:00 — No Comments

TODO MUTA Illustrative Surface Designs

Take a look at these surface designs created by Spanish Art and Design studio TODO MUTA. They are a new design company based in Seville whereby they create illustrative patterns and prints for wallpaper, vinyl's, prints, textiles, limited edition ceramics and anything…

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Added by alexandra avgitidis on July 24, 2012 at 6:00 — No Comments

Digital Art Museum of the Future

When it comes to reminiscing about the past he doesn’t waste time, but he is also not scared to incorporate it with the present or better yet the future. Leo Caillard's works intrigued me as it is all created by photo manipulations which made me question what modern art would look like in the digital age.…

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Added by Danielle on July 23, 2012 at 6:00 — 1 Comment

Life-Size Sand Sculptures-Photography

Striking photography by Cuban artist Liset Castillo. 

In my new body of work, “Human Studies,” from 2010, I subvert notions of enduring beauty with life-size images of women sculpted in a labor-intensive process out of sand, which I then photographed before destroying them. I create life-size sand sculptures of models typically found in high-gloss fashion magazines,…

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Added by Socratis Avgitidis on July 20, 2012 at 8:30 — 1 Comment

National Flags Made From Food

To gather Sydney’s biggest culinary stars (Peter Gilmore, Kylie Kwong, Mark Best and Neil Perry), the “Sydney International Food Festival” organized a program at “Star City’s Astral” restaurant. Inclusive of this list is some of the “Big Name” chefs from some of the finest restaurants in the world…

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Added by Danielle on July 9, 2012 at 6:00 — 1 Comment

Life Size Sculptures From Wood And Steel by Emilio Eftychis

Emilio Eftychis is one of South Africa's up and coming Architects and Designers, we just love his latest life size sculptures made from wood and steel. We will keep you posted on any upcoming exhibition date. Emilio is still looking for the perfect name for his sculpture, any suggestions?…

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Added by neofundi on July 6, 2012 at 9:30 — 1 Comment

BMW M5 | Bullet Art

High performance art created with a high performance vehicle

No lies!



The new BMW M5 shoots through objects to create its own slow-motion bullet footage. “The world’s fastest sedan recreates super slow-motion bullet footage on a much grander scale and the…

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Added by Danielle on July 6, 2012 at 6:00 — No Comments

Interactive Paintings by Ernest Zacharevic

Simple ideas executed brilliantly. Artist Ernest Zacharevic creates these wonderful wall paintings allowing people to participate and interact. ......................................................................…

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Added by Socratis Avgitidis on July 5, 2012 at 7:57 — 1 Comment

Russ Mills | New Works

Don't ask me why i choes to show you this blog, and this imagery because i cant answer it, and i feel that somethimes things dont need the answers, that they should just be left alone. But let me know if you do have any thoughts :) on Graphic Design/Illustration series by…

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Added by Danielle on July 4, 2012 at 6:00 — No Comments

World’s Largest Coffee Bean Mural

We love finding artists that show their appreciation for coffee. 

Russian artist and sculptor Arkady Kim has unveiled the world's largest coffee bean mosaic that used up to a million coffee beans, in Moscow.

Titled ‘Awakening’, the artwork measured about 30 square meters and weighed a hefty 397 pounds, surpassing the previous record set by Albanian artist Saimir…

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Added by illy on July 2, 2012 at 6:00 — 3 Comments

Illuminated Giant Fish Made From Discarded Plastic Bottles

It is stated by the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio=20) between 60 and 80% of debris in the sea are from plastic products. Quite sad…in order to encourage people to think about recycling as means for protecting the earth’s limited natural resources, artists came together in collaboration and built the UN Conference three huge fish out…

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Added by Danielle on June 29, 2012 at 6:00 — No Comments

Overnight Me to "Amazing"

So I've just collected my media accreditation for the Grahamstown National Arts Festival 2012. To use the festival's strap-line, "Welcome to Amazing" fundis! Quite nifty to have the world's second largest arts festival in my hometown, don't you think? Yep - only Edinburgh pips us; and this year's ArtsFest fringe programme is bigger even than the "burgh's".

The festival programme booklet that my media pack came with, is over 250 magazine pages long - with up to six individual offerings…

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Added by Strato Copteros on June 27, 2012 at 17:30 — 1 Comment

"The Art of Word"

Ralph Ueltzhoefer blends words and images to create 'Textportraits'. The detail in his work is incredible.

Typography is much more than just graphic design or illustration with some text thrown in. It’s an art form in itself that combines carefully chosen and arranged fonts with visual elements, sometimes as a relatively straightforward communication device and sometimes as…

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Added by Socratis Avgitidis on June 22, 2012 at 6:00 — No Comments

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