Category: artist
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Spectacular Industrial Flying Machines Made From Cardboard by Daniel Agdag
If you want to create detailed and imaginative flying machine sculptures that look like they’re about to take flight, cardboard is hardly the material to use. Unless of course you’re Australian artist Daniel Agdag, who has been toiling away creating a series of new works each more detailed and fascinating than the next. Agdag doesn’t…
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Michael Sydney Moore: a masterpiece in the making
The above work is actually a painting. No photoshop. No filters. No editing. Paint brush and oil paint only. The artist is Michael Sydney Moore, a 23 year old oil painter working out of a Studio in London. You might not have heard about him before, but given his prodigious talent at such a young age, it won’t…
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The Bodiless People In Chris McKenney’s Photos Will Give you Nightmares
Art doesn’t just have to be beautiful rainbows, sunshine and kittens – there is true art and beauty in horror as well. Christopher McKenney, a U.S.-based conceptual photographer, understands this perfectly. His dark and twisted surreal photography creates scenes that exist on the boundary between terror and beauty. The figures in McKenney’s photography seem to…
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Redditor Makes Statues Take Selfies By Cleverly Positioning His Camera
On a recent visit to the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, one Reddit user had the clever idea of photographing the museum’s collection of plaster Greco-Roman statues to make it look as though they’ve taken a series of statue selfies. The “models” in these selfies are plaster copies of original statues in the Vatican museum.…
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Paintings That Will Make You Question Everything Wrong in This World
Pawel Kuczynski is a Polish artist who specialises in images that make you think hard about the world we live in. While some of these may be hard to decipher, the message in all of them should be all too clear. These are some seriously intelligent and thought provoking works of art. And to mix…
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Couple Takes an Amazing Newborn Photoshoot… With Their Dog
One day, after professional family and pet portrait photographer Jame Clauss wrapped up a photoshoot, she found herself with nothing to do. So she and her photographer friends did what anybody would do in their position – they created a series of baby photos with their tubby Jack-Russell Terrier Snuggles instead of a baby. The…
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Are You a True Art Expert?
Below are a number of famous paintings by artists from around the world. Can you recognize the artist from just a small section of the painting? Try out our quiz and let us know your score in the comments section below!
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Be AMAZED as Augmented Reality Brings Your Paintings to Life!
There can be no doubt that the advancement of technology has had an impact on art. Not only has it increased the ability to share, consider, adore, contemplate, and purchase traditional works, it has in many instances birthed completely new forms of personal expression. But when we discovered what APositive were doing in fusing technology…
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5,000 Melting Ice Sculptures Remember the Victims Of WWI
Yesterday we described a heart-wrenching memorial installation commemorating some of the lost soldiers of WWI, but now, one artist has created an art installation that also remembers the often-forgotten civilian deaths during “The Great War.” Brazilian sculptor Nele Azevedo arranged 5,000 little ice figurines on the step of Chamberlain Square in Birmingham, U.K., to remember…
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888,246 Poppies Pour Like Blood out of the Tower of London to Remember the Fallen Soldiers Of WWI
This summer, the Tower Of London will be surrounded by a sea of crimson. This installation, conceived by artist Paul Cummins and designer Tom Piper, will commemorate each and every British or Colonial fatality from World War 1 by planting 888, 246 red ceramic poppies in a flowing sea around the tower. The installation, entitled…