Category: Art
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Man Tells Artist To Paint His Portrait For Free Because His Son ‘Has Cancer’
As an artist, we’ve probably all had the experience where someone has asked you to create a piece of art for them ‘for free’ or ‘for the exposure’ or for ‘free concert tickets’ or whatever. An anonymous Spanish ‘artist’ recently uploaded a conversation he had with a fan who asked for a commission and it…
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Russian Embroidery Artist Creates Billowing Clouds and Rainbow-Hued Sunsets
Vera Shimunia is a Russian embroidery artist who began her landscape embroidery in 2015. Vera’s work includes richly-hued mountainscapes, sunrises, and skies are crafted on palm-sized embroidery hoops using a variety of textured threads. Although embroidery is considered an old craft, Vera has breathed new life into the art form and has developed a huge following by…
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Man Spends More Than 3000 Hours Colorizing Old Black & White Photos Of Famous People
Mario Unger is a photographer and digital artist from Austria. Last year his main work was restoring and colorizing old photographs. Mario told us that is reason for doing all of this work was to bring the past back to the present. He loves B&W photography, but for some images he thought that color was…
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This pessimistic advertising campaign will make you think about the way we live
A fake communication campaign mixing the codes of advertising and the clichés of the end-of-the-world annunciators with a good dose of black humor.
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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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Artist Turns Her Boring Toilet Into A Magical Place
Artist Roza Khamitova recently completed her latest series Shovava, which involved creating countless numbers of drawings and paintings. There were so many of them, they were barely fitting under her bed. So she decided to put them to use by transforming her toilet. Deciding not to overthink it, she simply glued bits and pieces all…
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Artist Creates Hand-Drawn 3D Optical Illusions on Walls That Play With Depth and Perspective
Fascinated by our perceptual relationship to space, Los Angeles-based artist Katy Ann Gilmore has devised a drawing-based practice to articulate the world through intersecting line and concise planar geometries, creating spatial impressions far larger than the sum of their minimal parts. Inspired by the intricate systems that allow the human brain to experience and perceive…
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Miniaturist Creates Scenes Of Work and Play Set Amongst Office Supplies
Complaining online, whether through sarcastic memes or Tweets, has become something of an art form. In supremely satisfying Instagram vignettes, soon-to-become a photo book titled WORK, Figuratively Speaking, photographer Derrick Lin literally turns his gripes about corporate culture into art, rendering them as humorous scenes of miniature figures acting out relatable and universally aggravating work struggles.…
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