Category: Art
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Amazing Designs Which Prove That Less Is Always More
There’s something about great minimalist design that sets the product or service apart from the crowd. That makes things stand out through its simplicity. And it’s not just from an aesthetic perspective either. The clean, free feeling that comes with a life devoid of excess and clutter is also good for our mental health, giving…
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42 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner, Alien, Star Trek and Doctor To Help You Relax & Sleep
Back in 2009, the musician who goes by the name “Cheesy Nirvosa” began experimenting with ambient music, before eventually launching a YouTube channel where he “composes longform space and scifi ambience.” Or what he otherwise calls “ambient geek sleep aids.” Click on the video above, and you can get lulled to sleep listening to the ambient droning…
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‘This Is America’: The Childish Gambino Video Explained
Donald Glover – aka Childish Gambino – had quite a weekend last weekend. The actor, who has been riding high these days with both his series “Atlanta” and his role as young Lando Calrissian in the forthcoming “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” both hosted “Saturday Night Live” and was the musical guest as his rap/R&B…
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Yayoi Kusama’s Obliteration Room Takes Over the National Gallery of Victoria With Red Flowers
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is one of the most celebrated living artists. With a career spanning more than sixty years, Kusama is recognised for her immersive installations that explore ideas of infinity and obliteration. Kusama’s obsessive patterning of polka dots and use of nets reference a series of aural and visual hallucinations that have haunted…
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100’s of Museums Provide Adult Coloring-In Books to Download FOR FREE
Interestingly, one of the biggest adult art movements of 2017 was the coloring in book craze. Whether it be re-living our youth, finding a different way to relax, or simply passing the time, book stores sold more ‘adult’ coloring in books in 2017 than all of the previous 10 years combined. The Color Our Collections…
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THE ART PLUG: Marcel Katz, the guy with a magic eye for art
It is official, 30 year-old Miami based art dealer and art agent, Marcel Katz has become the youngest Salvador Dali dealer in the world. With an eye and sensibility for arts, Marcel Katz has an undeniable flair for identifying and connecting with today’s best artistic talents all around the globe and is naturally gifted in finding…
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The Funniest Classical Art Memes on the Interwebs
We love the internet. It can take anything, no matter how serious it was originally supposed to be, and make it hilarious. Some ancient master spent hours upon hours crafting a masterpiece, and with a sentence-long caption, the anonymous account ArtMemeKing comes along and changes the original meaning to something you can actually enjoy. artFido…
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Klimt’s Most Famous Paintings Recreated with Live Models
For the stylebible of this year’s life ball in vienna — an annual AIDS charity event — photographer inge prader has recreated the impression of the vienna secession by bringing the painted personages of gustav klimt to life. Carefully posed models and intricately crafted props duplicate some of klimt’s most iconic masterworks like ‘death and life’…
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H&M Files Lawsuit Against Graffiti Artist, Claims All Unsanctioned Artwork Can Be Used By Corporations Without Payment
H&M has entered a legal dispute with artist Jason “REVOK” Williams over the copyright usage of his work in a recent advertising campaign. The campaign features imagery as well as videos of a male model clad in the retailer’s “New Routine” sportswear line while in front of a wall with Williams’s graffiti painted on it.…
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Celebrities Who Will Surprise You With Their Secret Artistic Talents
These days, celebrities live under a microscope for all of us to see and dissect their every move. Yet some of them have managed to hide a secret talent. Well, maybe they weren’t hiding it, the media just chose to focus on other things about them. Some of these people started painting before fame, some…