Category: Sculpture
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Smashed Cans Sculpted in the Traditional Style of Ming Dynasty Porcelain
Adopting traditional decorative motifs found on Ming Dynasty ceramics, Chinese artist Lei Xue sculpted these humorous smashed aluminum cans that bridge the gap of some 600 years of art history. The pieces are part of an ongoing series titled Drinking Tea, and unlike the mechanical process of producing cans, each object is sculpted and painted…
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Vinyl Record-Inspired Bathroom Sinks Will Have You Dancing While Brushing Your Teeth
If you have a love of vinyl and are feeling nostalgic for those record consoles of years gone by, Gianluca Paludi has designed something useful for Olympia Ceramica that will also keep your musical memories in check. Vinyl is a bathroom collection that’s a mix between 70’s consoles and DJ setups with recessed sink basins…
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Artist Spends 10 Years Creating The Tallest Bird Sculpture In The World (200ft)
You can ask any traveler to name a few countries you must visit in your lifetime, and most of them will name India as the country everybody has to experience – from extraordinary cuisine to mind-blowing history, culture and sacred temples, India is definitely written in many bucket lists. Now, there are even more reasons…
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Artist Spends a Year in the Woods Creating Mysterious Sculptures
In an extraordinary act of devotion to his art, sculptural artist Spencer Byles spent a year creating beautiful sculptures out of natural and found materials throughout the unmanaged forests of La Colle Sur Loup (where he lived with his family), Villeneuve Loubet and Mougins. He worked together with elements of his natural surroundings to create…
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STEFANO COLFERAI COLLECTED HIS ANIMATIONS IN A SINGLE VIDEO REEL
Plasticine Artist based in Milan published for the very first time a reel for his Instagram account. 50' seconds length, the video show all the recent stop motion animations realized by Stefano, including personal projects and commission from clients he worked with during last two years. The result is a mix of hilarious and loopable…
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Unique colorful playground
The playground in Ctěnice Park / Prague was established in 2018 and is intended for children from 3 to 6 years old. The materials used take the natural habitat into consideration. Larch and spruce on bent components, oak on plastic and hot-dip galvanized metal predominate. The project is in the process of continual development…
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Elegant Ceramic Vessels Use Famous Optical Illusion to Animate the Space Between Them
To really appreciate Greg Payce’s artwork, you’ve got to read between the lines—or in this case, look between the vases. In 2008, the Canadian ceramicist created an alluring sculptural arrangement called Alumina, in which seven ornate vases stand in a line on a concrete platform. They are assembled in a graceful, alternating pattern of slender…
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Chinese Artist Sculpts Life-Sized Female Sculptures Inspired by the Graceful Beauty of Renaissance Art
From the surreal to the sublime and every where in between, Chinese artist Luo Li Rong produces realistic sculptures that convey the beauty and grace of the human figure. Working primarily in bronze, her life-size creations feature women in motion. They strike elegant poses that elongate their bodies with a seemingly windswept appearance; their hair…
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Three Large Crocheted Urchins Decorated Singapore For The iLight Marina Bay Festival
As part of the i Light Marina Bay Festival in Singapore, Choi+Shine Architects have designed The Urchins, which were created in response to the festivals theme of biomimicry and sustainability. The three large Urchins were designed to interact with natural light during the day, and glow when illuminated at night. Viewers can enter the Urchins and…
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Gravity-Defying Sculpture of Mother Nature Rotating Earth
Remember those amazing sculptural hands that wrapped around a building at the Venice Biennale in Italy a few years ago? The artist of those hands, Lorenzo Quinn, is back with a new series titled 'The Force of Nature' which is a series of sculptures that depict a woman pivoting the world around with a piece…