Category: Sculpture
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Artist Uses Tightly Rolled Newspapers to Create Incredibly Detailed Animal Sculptures
Remember the paper creations you used to make as a kid? They were probably limited to paper planes and some simple origami. Japanese paper artist Chie Hitotsuyama has taken paper art to a whole other level by creating textured sculptures of animals using a technique involving rolled strips of wet newspaper. The compact application of…
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Japanese Sculptor Turns Old Skateboards Into Amazing Skateboard Sculptures
Japanese skateboarder and self-taught sculptor Haroshi has creatively combined his two passions by creating striking and stylish pop-culture images out of the wood of trashed skateboards. The unique appearance of his sculptures is all thanks to the composition of the skateboards he uses, which are created from multiple layers of processed wood. These layers are…
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This Is What Happened When NASA’s Engineers Had A Pumpkin-Carving Contest
By day, the guys at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California build robots for space. But when Halloween comes around, these brainiacs compete in an ‘unofficial’ pumpkin carving contest, which NASA mechanical engineer Mike Meacham said gives them a chance to let out some creativity and bond. “I don’t think, even at the time, they…
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The World’s First Intertidal Art Gallery Opens in the Maldives
Underwater art installations are all the rage right now. Europe’s first and only underwater museum made waves when it opened off the coast of Lanzarote—a Spanish island—in January, and America’s first underwater museum followed suit, opening to divers in Florida in late June. Now, the Maldives—a true pioneer in underwater entertainment—has its own semi-submerged art…
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A Huge Purple Sea Monster Lurks Inside a Two-Story Warehouse at Philadelphia’s Navy Yard
There’s some strange things going on in Philadelphia! Well that’s if you call 20 inflatable tentacles extending from the roof and several windows of a two-story warehouse weird! The huge work is the largest inflatable sculpture ever created by UK-based artists Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrellas and is located in Philadelphia’s Navy Yard. Scroll down for…
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Sculptural Artist Transforms Found Objects Into Amazing Optical Illusion Sculptures
Sculptural artist Thomas Deininger turns found objects into amazing optical illusions sculptures. He began creating work from found objects in 1994, when he was “experimenting with the physical qualities of paint and abstraction in both material and imagery.” “Most of the content I was exploring involved mass consumerism, pop culture and environmental concerns. So really…
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Some Of The Strangest Ceramic Cups And Saucers That We’ve Ever Seen By Ronit Baranga
Israel-based sculptor Ronit Baranga produces some of the strangest figurative ceramic works that combine human characteristics with inanimate objects such as teacups, saucers, and plates. While not strictly functional, the open mouths are placed at the center of cups and pots, begging to sip the contents poured inside, while fingers mounted to the bottom of…
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Artist Creates Life-Sized Replica of Parthenon Using 100,000 Banned Books
Argentine artist Marta Minujín has created a life-sized replica of the Parthenon using 100,000 banned books from around the world. The massive book art installation is a replica of the famous Greek temple where democracy was born. However, the location of the ambitious project is more than just a symbolic statement – its located on…
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Artist Uses Wire to Bring Objects to Life as Funny and Mischievous Characters
Terry Border’s photo blog Bent Objects, begun in 2006, anthropomorphizes inanimate objects using bits of wire and a few props. He creates scintillating inner lives for the ordinary things that most of us take for granted. And a good chunk of his work revolves around the pantry, portraying modest pears, bespectacled raisins and brain-starved zombie…
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Italian Artist Creates Life-Like Figures From Hand Carved Wood
Peter Demetz has a gift for breathing life into wood, a material that seems hard and lifeless to most of us. His wooden sculptures of people are flawlessly life-like. The Italian artist’s mastery of human anatomy makes his sculptures look like paintings or sketches, and his wonderful compositions and sense of perspective help perpetuate this…