Category: artist
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Finally, Artist Paints Female Nudes As They Really Are (a little NSFW)
Victoria Selbach is a painter and nudes are her subject of choice. But don’t expect her artistic outpout to resemble Will Cotton’s airy pinup girls, John Currin’s luminous buxom forms or Lucian Freud’s fleshy animals. No, Selbach spares all elements of added fantasy or repulsion in her artworks, rendering her subjects, female and unclothed, as…
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Artist Creates Fun Miniature Dioramas Every Day For 4 Years
When children let their imagination run wild, even their food can become a plaything (much to their parents’ dismay). Tanaka Tatsuya, an artist in Japan, never lost that wild imagination – he has created a playful tiny diorama every day for the past 4 years out of food and other everyday items and put them…
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The Most Creative Sculptures and Statues From Around the World
Every city that you visit has its own unique sculptures and statues, but some really make you look twice – and then some. The most unique and amazing sculptures known to capture the eyes of all who pass can be found tucked along secret streets and broadcasted in popular city squares. There are many sculptures and statues…
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Strange Fairy-Like Sculptures Created With Body Parts Of Insects
Amsterdam-based artist Cedric Laquieze, previously featured for his animal skeleton sculptures decorated with flowers, has created a new body of work. He calls his little creations ‘Fairies’, they are constructed from the body parts of a myriad of insects, bones and seeds, sculpted into flamboyant quasi-bug creatures that look exotic and alluring. What do you…
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Adorable Tiny Animals Embroidered By Chloe Giordano
Chloe Giordano, a talented illustrator and embroiderer in Oxford, England, creates tiny embroidered animals that are full of texture and life. What’s striking about her embroidered pieces, besides her painstaking attention to these animals’ rich colors, is their size. Most of these animals are not much larger than a thimble, which puts the amazing detail…
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These aren’t real animals! Wildlife Painted in Layers of Resin by Keng Lye
With the exception of the repurposed containers, almost every aspect of these artworks by Singapore-based artist Keng Lye (previously) has been rendered in acrylic paint, carefully applied within layers of clear resin. A fish in a plastic bag, a tin can of tadpoles swirling under a frog on a lilypad, and even a completely convincing betta constructed…
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Puppy Pirate accepts Mark Zuckerberg’s #ALSIceBucketChallenge
It’s an internet viral sensation: pouring a freezing cold bucket of water on your head to raise funds and awareness for ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease). Everyone’s doing it, from Bill Gates, to Justin Bieber, to Oprah Winfrey, to the local random guy down the end of your street. However…
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Photographer Captures Two Mimes in 1974, Only Realizes 35 Years Later that One Was Robin Williams
Robin Williams tragic death has left the entire world in shock, grieving for a man whose entire professional life was dedicated to bringing joy to others. Many are taking time now to pay tribute to the academy award-winning actor and comedian, and as clips and stories from decades long gone surface, some incredible stories have come…
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Yummy Edible Chocolate LEGOs by Akihiro Mizuuchi!
Illustrator and designer Akihiro Mizuuchi designed a modular system for creating edible chocolate LEGO bricks. Chocolate is first poured into precisely designed moulds that after cooling can be popped out and used as regular LEGOs. It’s hard to determine exactly how functional they are, it seems like he had success in building a number of…
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‘PlopEgg’ Vagina Egg Paintings by Artist Milo Moire (NSFW)
When we last saw performance artist Milo Moire, she removed all of her clothes and walked down the street, onto a bus, and lined up for a ticket to Art Basel with nothing but a bag, a pair of heels, and the words of the articles of clothing she would normally be wearing written in…