Category: Sculpture
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These Giant Urban Flowers Bloom When Pedestrians Walk Under Them
HQ Architects have designed a set of giant flowers that bloom and react to pedestrians and transportation. Located in Vallero Square in the heart of Jerusalem in Israel, the flowers have been installed as part of the municipality’s effort to improve the urban space. The four giant flowers, that are 30 feet tall, have been…
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Huge Lion Carved From A Single Tree Trunk Took 20 People 3 Years to Complete
Sculptor Dengding Rui Yao has carved this incredible wooden lion from a single tree trunk. The artist led a team of 20 assistants on a three-year journey to complete the sculpture, which was made in Myanmar and was transported to its permanent home at the Fortune Plaza Times Square in Wuhan, China. According to Woodworking…
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Artist Turns Japanese Product Packaging Into Art, And The Results Are Amazing
Haruki is a Japanese artist that goes by the Twitter name @02ESyRaez4VhR2l and recently went completely viral when he posted images of the Japanese snack boxes he recently transformed into realistic figures! His artwork has a name in Japanese called “Kiries” or “Kirigami” – the art of paper-cutting. Kirie is more associated with traditional Japanese…
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Sculptor Fills The Forest with Life-Size Sculptures Made from Woven Rods of Willow
It’s not often that you walk through a forest and encounter a life-size statue of a woman shooting a bow and arrow. But that’s exactly what British sculptor Anna and the Willow has crafted. She’s filling the U.K. forests with statues made of willow branches by combining sculpture and basket weaving. The sculptor says she…
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Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’ Appears On Massive Residential Towers in Moscow
Katsushika Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” is perhaps on of the most iconic images that Japan has ever exported. And it’s now emerged as a giant mural on the facade of a new development in Moscow. Called Etalon City, the development, which comprises 9 buildings, is located in the South Butovo region in south-west…
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Paper Artist Creates the Most Amazing Paper Cranes with Feathery Details
Cristian Marianciuc is a paper artist who started an ambitious 100-days project back in 2015: to fold and decorate 1 origami crane every single day as part of a visual diary. After the initial 100 days went by, he made another ambitious decision, and that was to continue his project until he reached 365 cranes…
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British Artist Creates A Sculpture To Highlight Our Obsession With Phones
As we are all too aware, the majority of our day is spent on our mobile phones looking at things that don’t really make us think about anything. It seems like we would rather spend time on our phones than talking to our loved ones. It is obvious that our obsession with technology is getting…
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Ceramist Anna Whitehouse Created 100 Unique Clay Vessels in 100 Days
Anna Whitehouse is a ceramic artist based in United Kingdom who set a goal on January 1, 2018 to create a new bottle each day for 100 days. By limiting herself to a single form, Whitehouse was able to stretch her creativity to formulate new designs previously unexplored in her practice. Each white ceramic bottle was…
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Artist Turns Driftwood Into Striking Sculptures That Capture The Beauty Of Nature
When most of us pass by an old piece of wood on the ground, we don’t look at it twice. After all, it’s just a stick, right? But for Canadian artist Debra Bernier, the grooves, pits, and breaks in a piece of driftwood are tiny works of art, created by nature, and they’re inspirational jumping-off points…
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Turning water into banknotes and gold bars to raise awareness about our most valuable resource
Turning water into banknotes and gold bars as a reflection on the value of water and the privatization by companies of our most valuable resource.