Category: Painting
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Master Works of Art Reimagined by Jeff Hamada
A number of years ago, Booooooom (yes, that’s o times 7!), put a call out to the interwebs to recreate their favorite old master paintings with a modern spin. As the interwebs likes to do, all hell broke loose and professional and amateur artists alike started submitting their entries. It was so successful, in fact,…
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Miniature Creations Painted With Coffee
@coffeetopia – also know as Ghidaq al-Nizar – began as a latte artist, but has taken his craft to another level by deconstructing frothy brews and utilizing their most basic component – coffee – his medium of choice. Al-Nizar takes the steamy, soothing drink out of the cup and artistically applies it to an equally unconventional canvas – leaves and other…
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Street Artist and City Worker Have Year Long Exchange on a Red Wall in London
Street artist Mobstr recently shared a photo story that took place over the course of a year. The artist explains: “I cycled past this wall on the way to work for years. I noticed that graffiti painted within the red area was ‘buffed’ with red paint. However, graffiti outside of the red area would be removed via pressure…
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Hush Shows Us What East Meets West Looks Like, Street Art Style
When we last saw Hush, he generously donated a work which artFido cut out of the gallery wall and raised $13,500 for Challenge, an organisation which assists kids with cancer and their families (see HERE). There was such strong bidding on this charity piece – not just because it was raising money for a great cause – but also…
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Artist Richard Prince Makes $100,000 Selling Your Instagram Pictures in New York
Right now you can purchase someone’s Instagram photo for around $100,000. The money won’t go to the photographer, however, it will go to Richard Prince, who has blown up and made prints of other people’s Instagram photos for his series titled “New Portraits.” The previously private show at the Gagosian has been a part of Frieze. According to…
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The Amazing Gravity-Defying Worlds of Cinta Vidal
In her latest series of paintings, Barcelona-based artist and illustrator Cinta Vidal Agulló defies gravity and architectural conventions to create encapsulated scenes of intersecting perspectives. Painted with acrylic on wood panels, Vidal refers to the paintings as “un-gravity constructions” and says that each piece examines how a person’s internal perspective of life may not match up with…
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ROA’s New Mixed-Media Cabinets Reveal the Hidden Anatomy of Animals
Belgian artist ROA just opened his first solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in NYC titled Metazoa. The new series of mixed media works feature the artist’s familiar black and white depictions of animals painted on various cabinet-like furniture pieces that can be opened or shifted to reveal anatomical details. ROA often chooses to depict animals native to where he…
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Artist Burns Holes In Paper With Incense Sticks To Create Amazing Art
Jihyun Park, an artist in Korea, has found a unique and quintessentially Asian approach to pointillism – he uses burning sticks of incense to burn tiny holes in huge sheets of rice paper, arranging the tiny holes into beautiful, relaxing artistic compositions. The use of incense to burn these holes isn’t merely a novelty: “the…
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Artist Brings Back Art Deco With Spectacular Paintings
If you’re like us, you love everything art deco. The rich colors, bold geometric shapes and lavish ornamentation. We were therefore very pleased to discover the art of Dianne Gall, an oil painter and master of the art deco period. Although she lives all the way Downunder in beautiful Adelaide, Dianne is a busy lady with an exhibition currently…
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Stunning Street Art by L7m That Blur the Line Between Realism and Abstraction
For many years, we’ve admired how Brazilian street artist L7m paints gorgeous portraits of birds. His murals are always full of color and have a palpable energy, and he’s recently brought that same intensity to the streets of Paris and Vitry in France. L7m’s newest pieces blur the line between realism and abstraction, adding in aspects of…