Tag: Art
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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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Exploring the left-brain, right-brain dominance theory with artist Gregoire Meyer
Digital artist and photographer Gregoire Meyer’s latest work – Shattered – explores the left-brain, right-brain dominance theory. According to the theory, each side of the brain controls different types of thinking. Additionally, people are said to prefer one type of thinking over the other. For example, a person who is “left-brained” is often said to…
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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…
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Amazing steampunk sculptures made out of watch parts!
Using the smallest components from repurposed antique pocket watches and other time pieces, New-Jersey based artist Sue Beatrice of All Natural Arts assembles curious sculptures of animals and human figures. Given the nature of watch movements I can’t help but want to see each one of these things spring to life. See much more here. And don’t forget,…
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Amazing eye drawings and sketches
There’s something mesmerizing about eyes that we just can’t seem to get enough of. We are constantly amazed by how artists are able to create hyperrealistic drawings of what must be one of the most challenging facial feature to render correctly. From the wispy hairs of one’s eyelashes and the wrinkled creases under the eye…
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Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee
For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to…
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Amazingly Artful Tattoos by “Expanded Eye”
Even if tattoos aren’t your cup of tea, you’ve got to appreciate the wonderfully artful creations used in Jade Tomlinson and Kev James’ tattoos. The duo make up Expanded Eye, and split their time between London and Thonon-les-Bains, France where they pursue a wide range of artistic endeavors including illustration, street art, and tattoos. Kev does the…
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Bird Street Art on the Streets of Brazil by L7m
We’ve featured the amazing street art birds of Brazilian artist L7m before to rave reviews. And why not? The mix of realism that morphs into more frenetic strokes of spray paint is fun and visually beautiful. Some of the photos you see here were taken on the streets, while others are works on canvas. See much more…