Category: Art
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Artist Turns Real Seashells Into Decorative Jewelry Dishes That Look Like Long Lost Treasure
Nowadays, many contemporary artists are looking for new ways to express their art in a different manner to others. They are abandoning the traditional canvas and instead using sometimes smaller but unexpected things. One artist who is actually famous for this is crafter Mary Kenyon from California. She uses real seashells and transforms them into…
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The Winners of the 2018 International Landscape Photographer of the Year Contest Are Incredible
Just in case you ever needed a reminder that our planet is a stunningly beautiful place, the fifth annual Landscape Photographer of the Year competition winners have been announced and they don't disappoint. Selected from a field of nearly 3000 entries taken by 863 photographers, the judges had the difficult task of narrowing them down…
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Photographer Travels Across India To Show How Incredibly Beautiful Its Local People Are
Meeting people from different backgrounds and understanding that you're different and the same at the same time really broadens your horizons. Yet most of us can't travel to all the corners of the world. However, just because we can't shake hands with a person from a distant place doesn't mean we can't get introduced to…
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Artist Removes Makeup From Dolls To Repaint Them In A Very Realistic Way
The unrealistic portrayal of dolls and its effect on female self-image is a persistent discussion surrounding the toy industry. Dolls were, and in most cases still are, an ideal of proportional body shape and beauty which has been influencing girls around the world from the very young age. This perfectly symmetrical and flawless image has…
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Christian Chapman – A Modern New Age Blend of Unique Portraiture & Majestic Ocean Visions
Welcome to the Art of Christian Chapman. A modern new age blend of unique portraiture & majestic ocean visions. Beauty & decay, light vs dark, yin & yang, semi realism with gothic overtones echoing emotion. The portraiture pieces are hand painted with bold/loose & expressive yet intimately detailed brush strokes. The sharp lineal detail is…
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One Book Disrupts the Foundation of an Entire Brick Wall by Jorge Méndez Blake
Sometimes a small thing can make a big impact. Be significant. Make a difference. Once such example is The Castle, which is a project by Mexican artist Jorge Méndez Blake that subtly examines the impact of a single outside force. For the installation, he constructed a 75 x 13 foot brick wall that balances on…
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Photographer Honors Dead Animals With Beautifully Staged Photography On Beds Of Flowers
Russian photographer Maria Ionova-Gribina created the series ‘Natura Morta’ to honor the dead animals she found during her summer bicycle rides. All of the animals pictured died of natural causes or car accidents and were found soon after their death. According to the artist: “When me and my brother found a dead mole, bird or…
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Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of 500 Japanese Prints Available to Download FOR FREE
Vincent van Gogh never went to Japan, but he did spend quite a bit of time in Arles, which he considered the Japan of France. What made him think of the place that way had to do entirely with aesthetics. The Netherlands-born painter had moved to Paris in 1886, but two years later he set…
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Salvador Dalí’s Rare ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Illustrations Are Finally Reissued
On canvas and paper, Salvador Dalí created apparently nonsensical realities that nevertheless operated according to logic all their own. In writing, Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, did the very same. It thus only makes sense, despite their differences in nationality and sensibility as well as their barely overlapping life spans, that their…
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Foreign Student Hospitalized In China Gets Note From Artistic Nurse Who Doesn’t Speak English, And The Comments Are Hilarious
‘Lost in translation’ language mix-ups and misunderstandings can make for hilarious travel anecdotes – but not when they happen at a hospital. An international student was hospitalized in China and fell under the care of a nurse that didn’t speak English. Understanding the importance of getting the proper medical information across to her patient, the…