Category: Painting
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Portraits and People of artFido’s European Artist Showcase
The entries in our European Artist Showcase are coming thick and fast. From lions to leopards, dragons to demons, we’ve already received hundreds of submissions from all over the world. And, as with our previous artist showcases, there are a few consistent themes that emerge. Horses are always a popular subject. As are celebrities, pop…
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Indonesian Artist Creates Sublime Watercolor Paintings That Will Melt Your Heart!
Reza Luqman, aka Jongkie on Instagram, is an Indonesian artist we recently discovered through our artFido art sharing account on Instagram. He uses the very difficult medium of watercolor to create some of the most sublime paintings we have ever seen. Magic and magical. Reza’s paintings definitely put credence to the saying ‘a picture is…
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Stunning Examples of Animal Body Art
Many people feel an especially close connection with our animal brethren, which is probably a big part of why we find animal body art like this so appealing – these models, and the artists who paint on them, create a figurative representation of the relationship we share with all life. There are all sorts of…
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Artist Photoshops Her Fat Cat Into Famous Artworks
Svetlana Petrova is the proud owner of a fat cat by the name of Zarathustra. According to Svetlana, only the great artists can appreciate the “generous body and sublime soul” of the chubby feline, who weighs about 22 pounds (10 kg). At fatcatart.ru, Petrova photoshops her muse into famous artworks, from classics like the Mona…
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Inventor Spends 5 Years Trying to Determine if Vermeer’s Paintings Are Color Photos
It has long been suspected that some of the old masters may have relied on optical devices such as the camera lucida to help with scale and proportion in their paintings, leading to more lifelike interpretations of landscapes and portraits. Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor and computer graphics specialist, became obsessed with one such painter:…
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Performance Artist Reenacts the Painting ‘The Origin Of The World’
Following on from our previous post where a performance artist was restrained, force-fed and injected with cosmetics in a high street shop window as part of a hard-hitting protest against animal testing (see HERE), another performance artist has gone to great lengths to make a point. Background: if you’ve ever gazed into the beautiful void…
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Amazing Hyperrealistic Street Art Portraits by MTO!
Artist MTO (short for Mateo) is an amazingly talented hyperrealistic graffiti and street artist. His larger-than-life murals and portraits have become his signature, and regularly stop passers-by dead in their tracks. He has worked in France and Berlin, but like a lot of street artists, his whereabouts remain unknown… In any case, we fell in love with his…
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20 Of The Best Cities To See Street Art
We see a lot of street art posts on artFido, but where is the best street art actually made? Where can we see it? To answer these questions, we collected a list of some (not all!) of the best cities in the world to see street art in. On the surface, there’s only one thing…
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Keisha Collins – A New Found Talent in Newfoundland
Keisha Collins was one of the youngest artists to enter our North American Artist Showcase. At 17, she still lives at home in a small community on the Eastern coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Showing an interest in art from an early age, Keisha soon gained the support of her whole community and now works tirelessly…
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The Best Street Art Works From Around the World For 2014
Following on from our very successful post “100 of the Best Street Art Photos for 2013“, we’ve searched the world to find you the best street art works from around the world for the first quarter of 2014… Some will make you laugh, some will make you think, and some will make you ask “what…