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    Double Exposure Animal Portraits by Andreas Lie

    Norwegian visual artist Andreas Lie merges verdant landscapes and photographs of animals to creates subtle double exposure portraits. Snowy mountain peaks and thick forests become the shaggy fur of wolves and foxes, and even the northern lights appear through the silhouette of a polar bear. Lie is undoubtedly influenced by his surroundings in Bergen, Norway, a coastal...
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    Ever Noticed How Ugly Medieval Cat Paintings Are? Now You Will

    Ever tried to paint a cat? Turns out, it’s not as easy as you might expect. It certainly wasn’t for these medieval artists anyway. While they excelled at painting religious scenes, portraits of Royalty and naked ladies, cats proved to be an altogether different challenge. While most of them have got the basic shape of...
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    Hundreds Of Mountaineers Climb The Alps For an Epic Photoshoot

    The sheer cliff wall or snowy, wind-blasted peak of an icy mountain is a rough place to create large-scale photographic works of art, but that’s exactly what Swiss photographer Robert Bösch does. His photos can involve hundreds of mountain climbers braving difficult conditions to get the perfect shot. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the...
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    Encouraging Facts To Give You Hope About The Future Of Notre Dame

    Paris was burning quite literally on Monday after the attic of Notre-Dame cathedral caught on fire. Billowing Smoke and tall blazes were seen from around the city as citizens watched the famous landmark in horror. The fire is said to have spread from the attic, causing the cathedral’s spire, one of Paris’s most iconic architectural...
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    The Latest Chinese Beach Craze: The Face-kini

    A new kind of swimwear trend is sweeping the Chinese beaches in Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong province. As the weather get hotter, both men and women are seen appearing on the beaches wearing full body suits that cover from head to toe. The upper part of the swimsuit has a ski-mask with holes cut...
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    You’re Just Another Brick in the Wall with Brad Spencer!

    We recently came across the creative brick works of artist Brad Spencer and haven’t been able to get that Pink Floyd song out of our head ever since! Brad works with bricks to produce eye-catching, figurative sculptures. Each piece of work in the sculptor’s growing collection is an intriguing look at a common medium used...
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    This Japanese Cafe Found A Way To Employ Paralysed People As Waiters

    If you grew up watching The Jetsons, you probably wanted a robot maid like Rosie.  Although the Jetsons was largely based in fantasy, robot waiters are becoming more and more commonplace. They are already used in several cafes, such as Naulo restaurant in Nepal which has employed three humanoid waiters called ‘Gingers’. Taking the technology...
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    Gravity-Defying Sculpture of Mother Nature Rotating Earth

    Remember those amazing sculptural hands that wrapped around a building at the Venice Biennale in Italy a few years ago? The artist of those hands, Lorenzo Quinn, is back with a new series titled 'The Force of Nature' which is a series of sculptures that depict a woman pivoting the world around with a piece...
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    Street Art Painted Traffic Light Boxes in Melbourne, Australia

    Melbourne’s streets and laneways have been alive with street art for a number of years now.  In the early days, however, the city had a “zero tolerance” policy in relation to this form of art, with fines and arrests not uncommon and beautiful wall murals being painted over by council workers faster than they were...
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    These Hilarious Memes That Perfectly Sum Up Married Life

    2018 was a big year for royal family weddings. The latest one was Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank celebrating their marital vows in front of other royals and celebs and what not. This got us to thinking… they might be happy now, but what about in a few weeks. Months. Years? What does it really...
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    The Most Hilariously Honest “Story Of My Life” Book Covers

    Have you ever scrolled through your social media feeds and seen something that made you go “story of my fucking life”? – well there is now a series of books dedicated to these relatable moments. The @storyofmyfuckinglife instagram account is a page of cartoon book illustrations with titles that tell the stories of the relatable...
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    Artist Inserts Her Fat Cat Into Famous Paintings In Art History

    Like cats? Artist Svetlana Petrova sure does. So much so that she’s inserted her fat cat named Zarathustra into famous paintings from around the world. No painting is safe from an appearance the ginger feline, including works by Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch, and Johannes Vermeer. Here are some of our favorites. Make sure to upvote...
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    The Art of the Colourful Handwoven Mandala

    With the advent of social media, art of all forms are constantly being ‘re-discovered’ and ‘reinvented’ to an entirely new audience of hungry eyes and minds. One such art form which we have seen become hugely popular in recent times is that of the mandala. Artist Jay Mohler has reached master level in this art form, meticulously...
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    Are You Scared of Snakes? Why Not Put a Hat on It?

    If you’re a fan of reddit you probably know there’s a sub-reddit section which covers almost anything you can think of. But did you know there’s a section which can alleviate your fear of snakes?! Yup, snakeswithhats is it! A little known fact is that Eve was convinced by a hat-wearing snake to offer the apple...
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    Can A Single Book Disrupt the Foundation of a Brick Wall?

    How much power does one book hold? That’s the central question of a unique installation by Mexican artist Jorge Mendez Blake. For his 2007 project, “The Castle” (named after The Castle by Franz Kafka), Mendez Blake constructed a single wall of bricks—75 feet long, 13 feet high—without mortar. Each brick was placed uniformly and intentionally, as with any wall, but Blake also included an...
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    THE TOP TEN THINGS ABOUT THE NEW ARTFIDO

    So, you may have noticed. We’ve got a new dog. And we’ve learnt some new tricks. We spent almost all of 2014 fine-tuning artFido.com to make it even easier to buy and sell art online. And we’re pretty proud of the results. Fido has never looked so good. And the site, well it’s running like...

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