Category: Sculpture
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Chinese Sculptor Spends 4 Years Sculpting World’s Longest Wooden Masterpiece
When you hear the word ‘masterpiece’, you most likely think of a famous painting painted in the 15th or 16th century like the Mona Lisa. So it’s always nice to know that artistic masterpieces are being created even today. Take, for example, Chinese artist Zheng Chunhui’s breathtaking 12.2-meter-long (over 40 ft) wooden carving – it…
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Insects and Animals Made from Repurposed Objects by Edouard Martinet
It’s hard to believe that these perfectly assembled sculptures by French artist Edouard Martinet ever existed in any other form than they appear now. Yet every head, thorax, leg, wing, and eye from these assorted creatures was once part of a car, bicycle, typewriter, or other found objects. Reading through his material lists it becomes clear how…
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Amazingly Wrapped Aluminum Wire Sculptures by Seung Mo Park
Korean artist Seung Mo Park continues to amaze with his astonishingly crafted figurative sculptures made with tightly wrapped layers of aluminum wire based on fiberglass forms. The works shown here are part of the Brooklyn-based artist’s Human series where he recreates the delicate wrinkles and folds of clothing as well as the sinuous musculature of the human body in…
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A New Octopus Painted in Layers of Resin by Keng Lye
Artist Keng Lye recently completed a new painting that blends sculpture and layers of acrylic paint to create this near lifelike red octopus. Lye often uses an egg shell to form the body of his cephalopods which then merges seamlessly with alternating layers of resin and acrylic to create an incredible sense of depth and dimensions. …
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These Were Made With a Simple Pair of Scissors!
Hina Aoyama is an artist from Yokohama, Japan. Currently living in Ferney-Voltaire, France, Aoyama began exploring ‘ultra-fine lacy paper cuttings’ in 2000. Using a simple pair of scissors, Aoyama creates intricately delicate works of art. Her steady hand and incredible patience has earned her a variety of awards and her artwork has been exhibited around the…
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Amazing Pumpkin Arrangements at the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze in New York!
Update: be sure to also check out the Amazing Pumpkin Carvings from Villafane Studios HERE! Held every year in New York, the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze is a 25-night-long Halloween event featuring some 5,000 hand-carved, illuminated pumpkins arranged into dinosaurs, sea monsters, zombies, and other spooky sculptural forms. Via Instagram: Although only associated with Halloween as we know…
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Ai Weiwei’s ‘Forever Bicycles’ Installation in Toronto
On display from October 6 – 27 at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto, Canada, is renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei‘s Forever Bicycles installation. The 3,144 interconnected bicycles served as the centerpiece for last weekend’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche art festival, a dusk til dawn celebration with installation and performance artworks located around the city. Having just…
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Amazingly Detailed Sculptures Carved from Single Lead Pencils
Hungarian artist Cerkahegyzo creates amazingly detailed miniature sculptures from single lead pencils. He says that it’s a form of relaxation and most importantly, a fun hobby to take his mind off the daily grind as a professional tool-maker in Hungary. Cerkahegyzo says he started carving after coming across the highly detailed sculptures of artist Dalton Ghetti…
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Amazing Steampunk Coffee Shop in Cape Town, South Africa
The Truth Coffee Shop in Cape Town, South Africa is an amazingly designed steampunk-themed coffee shop created by Heldane Martin who considered the form factor of espresso machines and coffee roasters to be somewhat similar to the Victorian futuristic fantasy style found in the aesthetic of steampunk. The hope was also to personify Truth’s attempt at roasting the very…
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Futuristic Video Shows Us What’s Spain’s Sagrada Familia Will Look Like in 2026
When Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi was tragically killed by a train in 1926, he was in the middle of building of his masterpiece—the Barcelona basilica, Sagrada Familia. Eighty-six years later, the church still isn’t complete. But according to Jordi Fauli, the current architect on the magnificent life-sized sand castle, it’ll be done by 2026. This…