Category: Random
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2000 Suspended Tennis Balls Appear to Bounce Through Mustang Art Gallery
Spanish visual artist Ana Soler is known for working with a multitude of objects from dangling hundreds of pairs of scissors or spoons, to creating dense clouds of string, coins, and paper cranes. In her most recent work, Causa-Efecto (Cause & Effect), she hung 2,000 tennis balls in spaces throughout the Mustang Art Gallery in Alicante, Spain. The balls are carefully…
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Artist Uses a Medium Favoured by the Old Masters – Egg Tempera – to Create Stunning Paintings
We’ve been a huge fan of artist Robert Clinch‘s work for some time now, mesmerised by the glow and brilliance of detail in his beautiful paintings. Clinch works in a traditional medium favoured by the Old Masters, egg tempera, which is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of coloured pigment mixed with egg yolk. Tempera paintings are very…
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Walking in the Clouds – Spectacular NOT PHOTOSHOPPED Images From Bolivia
A spot of reflection is always good for the soul. And judging by these pictures, there’s plenty of room for that. For this is the world’s largest natural mirror, created when a thin film of water gathers on a vast plain of salt deposits. So magnificent is the dream-like sight that the salt pans in the…
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Sakir Gokcebag turns toilet paper into art
It’s a beautiful thing when an artist can take the simplest of materials, and with a vision and a little blood, sweat and tears, turn it into something moving. Something to behold. Sakir Gokcebag has made a name for himself by doing just that. Taking everyday objects like tape measures, discarded umbrellas, clothes hangers, clocks…
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Nelson Mandela Captured In The Most Beautiful Way By Marco Cianfanelli
As the world mourns the great Nelson Mandela, we wanted to once again bring light to an amazing sculpture by Marco Cianfanelli that stands at the site of Mandela’s capture in 1962. Installed in 2012, the striking piece was installed to mark the 50-year anniversary of what began Nelson Mandela’s ‘long walk to freedom’ –…
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Tadashi Kawamata – Turning Trash Into Sculptural Treasures
Consisting of thousands of found objects, construction materials and other life refuse, the stunning art installations of Tadashi Kawamata are gritty, in-your-face, urban creations. Built entirely in situation, these site-specific, twisting, morphing pieces of reconstituted life seem to engulf and redefine the public spaces they inhabit. Tadashi Kawamata‘s early work focused on construction and deconstruction. Commonly installed in…
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A Colourful Canopy of Umbrellas in Sunny Portugal
For the second consecutive year, the town of Agueda, Portugal, has brought out an installation of colourful umbrellas for their Agitagueda art festival on now. Although the installation doesn’t differ much from last year, the colours have gotten, well, more colourful! Photographer Patrícia Almeida captured some great shots this year, many more of which you can see here.
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The Malaysian street art scene? So hot right now.
Malaysia may not immediately spring to mind when discussing what locations are hot in the street art world right now. You could be excused for thinking that New York City, San Fran, Melbourne or France are where it’s at when it comes to great street art. While this maybe true, our roving reporter discovered earlier…
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Street Art Painted Traffic Light Boxes in Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne’s streets and laneways have been alive with street art for a number of years now. In the early days, however, the city had a “zero tolerance” policy in relation to this form of art, with fines and arrests not uncommon and beautiful wall murals being painted over by council workers faster than they were…
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Giant Chrome T-Rex Installed on the Seine River in Paris by Philippe Pasqua
Artist Philippe Pasqua recently completed installation of an impressive Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton that now stands watch over the Seine river in Paris. The structure is made from 350 chrome molded bones and measures a full 21′ x 12′ (3m by 6m). Photographs above courtesy Anthony Gelot. If you liked this, also check out Huang Yong Ping’s stainless steel…