Category: Abstraction
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I Combine Thousands Of Photos To Create One Image Of A Mineral
My Name is Chris Perani; I am a photographer who specializes in capturing the microscopic details of our world. My latest project, “Minerals,” exemplifies the intricate nature of minerals, fossils, shells, and gems. Using extreme macro techniques, each final image is a combination of tens of thousands of photos stitched together to create one large…
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Vintage nudes censored with dot art
With the ever-growing issue of having art censored across many social media platforms, one artist is using his dot art to make some questionable images more palatable to general audiences.
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Abstraction is my melody
I can’t imagine my life without music and painting. Every time when I listen another one song in my playlist I imagine colorful abstractions, mix of unbelievable textures and mediums. Each of my pictures always remind me one or a several songs. And even after a years when I watching in my abstractions, there is…
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Access the Largest Collection of Frida Kahlo’s Work Ever Assembled, All FREE Online
Some films achieve the rare feat of being both colorful escapist fantasy and artful means of reconnecting us with our imperiled humanity. Pixar’s wonderful, animated Coco is such a film, “an exploration of values,” writes Jia Tolentino at The New Yorker, “a story of a multigenerational matriarchy, rooted in the past—whereas real life, these days, feels…
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What’s Wrong With Today’s Society Encapsulated in Illustrations by Al Margen
In his latest series of illustrations, Argentinian artist Al Margen portrays the world as he sees it – a dark and depressing one. The thought provoking images play on a variety of topics, although the author himself is very critical about his works “They are children of boredom, nonconformity or anger. They are the representation…
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Artist Draws Herself On Drugs to Show How it Affects Your Brain
We’ve previously written about artists who have experimented with the effect drugs have on their work (see HERE). User whatafinethrowaway, inspired by the “Nine Drawings” series which was the result of an experiment by the US government in the 1950’s, asked her friend to draw self-portraits while on LSD. The friend took 200µg of LSD and…
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Photographer Gives Advice to His Children Through Double Negative Photos
Florida-based photographer Brandon Kidwell uses his artistic skills as a powerful way to give valuable advice to his kids. In a series titled Wisdom For My Children, Life Lessons Through Photos, he creates double-exposure images that convey different teachings. It’s a personal project that took form over many years, and it reflects the real experiences he’s…
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Psychedelic Time-Lapse Shows Paint Poured Onto a Block
Watch what happens when artist Holton Rower and his team continually pour paint onto a block and let gravity do its thing! The result is like some kind of psychedelic, rainbow-colored interpretation of the rings of a tree trunk. Direction, Cinematography, and Editor – Dave Kaufman Music: Nick Lovell, “Lost Sick Tired” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsfHqLNDkn4 And don’t forget, if…
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An Abstract Series With a Twist: Shampooed Hair!
In his recent magazine piece, photographer Lo Cheuk Lun turns the common salon scene of shampooed hair into swirling designs of abstract art. Lun snapped pictures of sudsy heads from above, showing off bubbly hair that is swirled and teased in a variety of patterns. Barely recognizable as part of the human body at first…