Category: Art
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Japanese Artist Turns Found Stones Into Animals You Can Hold in the Palm of Your Hand
To me, stones are not simple materials or canvases for painting pictures on. Among all those numerous stones on a river bank, one stone, looking like an animal, catches my eye. When I find a stone, I feel that stone has found me too. Stones have their own intentions, and I consider my encounters with…
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Real People Recreate Corny Romance Novel Covers And It’s Hilarious
Romance novel covers are almost the lifeblood of the genre. “Romance readers do base a lot on the covers. That’s the first thing that they look for… I’ve seen readers post that they’ve picked up books simply because they wanted the cover that was on the book,” she shared. “It needs to be a little…
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Artist Spends Days Looking For Sea Treasures On The Beach And Here Are 38 Of The Most Interesting Things She’s Found
Artist Maristella890 spends most of her days beachcombing and searching for sea treasures use in her sea-themed jewelry. She not only searches for seashells and corals, but also for rare sea glass and sea pottery. One of her proudest finds is a 200-year-old undamaged Maraschino bottle, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After finding it, she returned…
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Woman Turns A 110 Year Old Dead Tree Into A Free Neighbourhood Little Library
The not-for-profit Little Free Library is a book program with locations in 88 countries, with over 75,000 registered Little Free Libraries. Although it exists in many shapes and sizes, the basic premise is that it is a small house-like structure on a public thoroughfare which has a front door that opens to allow passersby to…
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Artist Reimagines Superheroes as 16th Century Paintings
One day when struggling with an extended creative block, photographer Sacha Goldberger asked himself “what would it look like if Superman was born in the 16th century? What if the Hulk was a Duke?” With this, Sacha’s block was broken and his playful new series Super Flemish was born. According to the artist, the whole project…
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Artist Uses Microsoft Excel Instead of a Paintbrush to Create Amazing Japanese Landscapes
In this day and age, artists using technology in their art isn’t an uncommon practise. But 77 year old Tatsuo Horiuchi has taken technology and art to the next level, working exclusively with Microsoft Excel to produce his beautiful works of art. His “paintings” are remarkably intricate works that mimic traditional Japanese paintings that offer…
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People From Around The World Recreate Their Favorite Famous Artworks
For a number of years now, people have been entertaining themselves by participating in an open community project called “Take a photo of the Rembrandt type”. The project’s feed on Vk.com already has more than 300 submissions, featuring people’s best attempts at replicating famous works of Classic Art. The best part is, it’s not just…
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50 Of The Funniest Classical Art Memes Ever
Entertaining, amusing and easily shareable, a whole new generation is being exposed to the genius of Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Goya and friends, albeit with a cheeky modern twist that would likely make them turn in their graves if they knew. So without further ado, here are our fav classical art memes! Be sure to…
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The Amazing Evolution of The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Has any Japanese woodblock print — or for that matter, any piece of Japanese art — endured as well across place and time as The Great Wave off Kanagawa? Even those of us who have never known its name, let alone those of us unsure of who made it and when, can bring it to…
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STRANGE AND HAUNTING ART OF PAULA GOLEMO
Fascinated with death, decay and darkness, she has mastered fear, horror and macabre in her art.