Category: Sculpture
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Artist Turns Old Pocket Watches Into Amazing Miniature Worlds
Greek artist Gregory Grozos is on a quest to prove that watches can do much more than just tick. They can fit entire worlds inside them. "I call my creations 'miniature worlds' because that is what I exactly aim them to be," Gregory writes. "I try to make each work as detailed and complete as…
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Artist Creates Surreal Ceramic Vessels That Are Half-Pottery And Half-Octopus
Ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto is intensely interested in the intersection of art and craft, whether a craft object can simply be decorative or if an artistic work can still remain functional. Her questions have resulted in a series of traditional ceramic plates, bowls, and vases embedded with unlikely objects from wriggling octopuses to entire buildings. …
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Artist Carves Avocado Pits Into Fantastical Figures of the Forest
Hello! I’m Jan Campbell, the creator of Avocado Stone Faces. I live in County Mayo in the West of Ireland. I am happiest when in nature; exploring forests, the bog and beaches. I truly adore carving and feel that it’s a necessary mode of communication for me, one that I’ve only accessed relatively recently. I…
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Artist Installs Emoji Sculptures On A Building As A Tribute To Modern Day ‘Gargoyles’
What is the modern day equivalent of Michelangelo’s famous statues and marble reliefs? Architect Changiz Tehrani thinks they’re emojis. And he’s so sure of it, that he has just put 22 of them on a building in the Netherlands. [zombify_post]
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Teenager Builds A Scale Model of New York City Using Recycled Computer Parts
Zimbabwe-based artist Zayd Menk spent three months working on this 165 by 80 centimeter model of Midtown Manhattan. The 17-year-old student, who built the piece of art for a school project, used a plethora of electronic bits and pieces to build the reduced model: 263 hot glue sticks, 11 CPUs, 27 motherboards, 10 CRT motherboards,…
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Italian Master Sculptor Creates Masterpiece Where The Netting Is Even Carved Out Of Marble
You have to hand it to the Italians. They are simply spectacular sculptors of marble. This is best showcased in the Cappella Sansevero, a chapel in the historic center of Naples. It is arguably one of the most awe-inspiring spaces on Earth. Everywhere you look you are confronted by sculptures of astonishing beauty, a bevy…
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Japanese Artist Handcrafts Amazing Hair Ornaments That Look Like Delicate Flowers
The Japanese artist Sakae creates hair clips in colorful flower shapes using liquid resin and thread. Sakae calls her craft “dip flower,” which involves sculpting the metallic wire into floral shapes and dipping them into the liquid plastic. Once the individual petals, leaves, and buds are dry, the artist then combines them to create glassy…
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Ceramics Master Creates Dream Worlds Imagined in Contorted Clay Portraits
Master ceramicist Johnson Tsang (previously) continues to create spectacularly emotive ceramic sculptures of the human face. The Hong Kong-based artist’s latest series, Lucid Dream II, features surreal contortions that squish, wring, melt, and stretch. Titles like “Remembrance,” “Extrication,” and “Unveiled” suggest an exploration of the liminal space between the conscious and subconscious, in addition to…
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Amazing Luminous Glass “Jellyfish” Sculptures Drip with Sinuous Tentacles
We’re in love with everything when it comes to artist Daniela Forti. She lives and works in Chianti, Tuscany where she produces these fantastic artworks of dripped glass. She refers to the pieces as “Jellyfish” because of their undulating tentacles that are formed by hand through a melted glass fusion process. Each piece appears to…
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Stunning 19th-Century Sculpture Cloaked in a “Translucent” Marble Veil
Sculpture is among the oldest of the arts. Even before painting cave walls, early humans fashioned shapes from stone. From these beginnings, artifacts have evolved to their current complexity. Among the commonly available stones, only marble has a slight translucency i.e. subsurface scattering that is comparable to that of human skin. It is this translucency…