Category: People
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Hyper Realistic Bath Time PAINTINGS That Will Blow Your Mind
Alyssa Monks is a New Jersey-based artist who’s most famous for her stunning hyper realistic paintings. Although they seem like photographs, these are actually very detailed portraits of bathing people. “Using filters such as glass, vinyl, water, and steam, I distort the body in shallow painted spaces,“ Monks said of her techniques. “When I began…
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Polish Artist Takes Spectacular Summertime Photos of her Children
Izabela Urbaniak is a photographer and mother of two playful boys from Lodz, Poland. Since 2012, she’s been creating a photo series called “Summertime,” which depicts holidays in the countryside (in the tiny village of Lugowiska), carefree childhood, and the joy and happiness of everyday life. These pictures represent summer without computers and TVs – only…
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![500 Years of Female Portrait Paintings in 3 minutes! [VIDEO]](https://static.artfido.com/2014/08/500-women.jpg)
500 Years of Female Portrait Paintings in 3 minutes! [VIDEO]
This is amazing: a mesmerizing 3-minute journey through 500 years of female portraits by Philip Johnson. Even if you’re no art expert, you will still appreciate the beauty of these masterpieces and get blown away by the evolution of art over the years. How many of the 90 paintings do you recognize? Watch the video…
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Finally, Artist Paints Female Nudes As They Really Are (a little NSFW)
Victoria Selbach is a painter and nudes are her subject of choice. But don’t expect her artistic outpout to resemble Will Cotton’s airy pinup girls, John Currin’s luminous buxom forms or Lucian Freud’s fleshy animals. No, Selbach spares all elements of added fantasy or repulsion in her artworks, rendering her subjects, female and unclothed, as…
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Michael Sydney Moore: a masterpiece in the making
The above work is actually a painting. No photoshop. No filters. No editing. Paint brush and oil paint only. The artist is Michael Sydney Moore, a 23 year old oil painter working out of a Studio in London. You might not have heard about him before, but given his prodigious talent at such a young age, it won’t…
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Remembering the Life of Robin Williams in Photos
With the extremely sad news of the passing of Robin Williams, we thought we’d remember and celebrate the life and career of one of our favorite comedians in photos. Be taken on memory lane with us and the great Robin Williams… let us know your favorite Robin Williams memory in the comments section below. Firstly,…
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5,000 Melting Ice Sculptures Remember the Victims Of WWI
Yesterday we described a heart-wrenching memorial installation commemorating some of the lost soldiers of WWI, but now, one artist has created an art installation that also remembers the often-forgotten civilian deaths during “The Great War.” Brazilian sculptor Nele Azevedo arranged 5,000 little ice figurines on the step of Chamberlain Square in Birmingham, U.K., to remember…
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![Art world stunned: Second ‘Mona Lisa’ appears to be authentic [VIDEO]](https://static.artfido.com/2014/08/Mona-Lisa.jpg)
Art world stunned: Second ‘Mona Lisa’ appears to be authentic [VIDEO]
Last year, art experts claimed that Leonardo da Vinci completed a version of the Mona Lisa some ten years prior to that of the famous Mona Lisa painting which hangs in the Louvre in Paris. The original Mona Lisa was thought to be the only portrait of Lisa Gherardini (aka Lisa del Giocondo) ever created…
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Unbelievable Body Paintings That Transform People Into Animals And Organs
Gesine Marwedel is a brilliant body painting artist based in Germany who creates both beautiful and terrifying pieces of art right on the models who serve as her living canvases. Marwedel is a master of painting on and with the human form – she can either emphasize it to work with her painting, or eliminate…
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422 Million American Express Points for Collector who Purchases Ancient Cup!
A Chinese collector who bought an ancient Chinese ceramic cup for a record HK$281 million ($39 million) at auction in April got an unexpected bonus when he paid for it on Friday: almost 422 million American Express points. Liu Yiqian, who used his Centurion Card to pay for the cup from Sotheby’s Hong Kong, hadn’t…