Tag: Art
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Frida Kahlo’s Colorful Wardrobe Unlocked After Being Hidden for 50 Years
Frida Kahlo’s clothes are like Frida herself: colorful, powerful, filled with passion. Seeing them immediately evokes the richness of her paintings, while poignantly offering an insight into her life. When Mexican artist Frida Kahlo passed away in 1954, her husband, fellow artist Diego Rivera, anguished by her death, sealed her clothes in the bathroom of…
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The Best Memes In Response To Nike’s Colin Kaepernick Ad
If you’re an American or follow American affairs, you’ve probably noticed that people are burning shoes because a player took a knee during the national anthem rather than remain standing. Then Nike came along and used him as part of an ad campaign, and all hell broke loose. However, these kind of situations are fertile…
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Designers Who Come Up With Genius Elevator Design Solutions
Elevators are generally pretty boring places. Luckily however, there are some who recognize the potential of this little room-on-the-move, and get as creative with the humble elevator as they would with any other space! We love to celebrate these out-of-the-box thinkers, and have compiled a list of the coolest, craziest and cleverest elevators out there.…
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Miniature Paper Cut Artist Creates 365 Days of Egrets, Sparrows, Pelicans and Other Birds
If you’re a fan on all things miniature, then you should be following India-based cut paper artists Nayan Shrimali and Vaishali Chudasama. They have set out to construct 365 miniature bird species by the end of 2018. To form each work, the pair begins by cutting feathers, beaks, and talons from layers of paper and then using…
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Man Spends More Than 3000 Hours Colorizing Old Black & White Photos Of Famous People
Mario Unger is a photographer and digital artist from Austria. Last year his main work was restoring and colorizing old photographs. Mario told us that is reason for doing all of this work was to bring the past back to the present. He loves B&W photography, but for some images he thought that color was…
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This pessimistic advertising campaign will make you think about the way we live
A fake communication campaign mixing the codes of advertising and the clichés of the end-of-the-world annunciators with a good dose of black humor.
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Painting From The Year 1559 Contains Over 100 Proverbs We Still Use Today
More than 450 years ago, Dutch master painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted The Dutch Proverbs, an oil on wood painting that visually represents over 100 Dutch proverbs. Many of these proverbs still exist today such as ‘when the cat’s away, the mice will play’, or ‘banging your head against a brick wall’. The work…
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Photographer Captures Synchronistic Images in Soviet Era Swimming Pools
If you’re a Wes Anderson fan, then photographer Maria Svarbova’s latest series titled In the Swimming Pool will be right up your alley. Maria is fascinated by the sterile, geometric aesthetic of old swimming pools, especially those built during the Socialist Era in her native country of Slovakia. Each scene she photographs is highly controlled,…
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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…
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Street Artist Transforms Ordinary Public Places Into Clever and Funny Installations
Miguel Marquez Outside is the Tumblr blog of Michael Pederson, a street artist from Sydney, Australia. For one series, the artist has placed thoughtful text on trash, including a discarded couch that reads, “No more quiet empty rooms,” and a television with “The things I’ve seen…” Another piece involves a (non-working) light switch, accompanied by…