Tag: Art
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Cats That Look Like Models and Pinup Girls
For some reason, cats didn’t have a great year on the internet. But while our collective attention continues to shift to sloths, pandas and otters, a few meme makers out there were determined to make cat memes happen again. Because if there’s one thing that cats (and cat owners) hate most, it’s being ignored. Full…
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Artists Creates Coral and Bacteria Installations Using Cut Paper
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Artist Rogan Brown plays with the architecture of nature and organic growth. By identifying patterns and motifs that occur in the natural world in different contexts and at different scales, both macroscopic and microscopic, he has developed a formal, aesthetic vocabulary that he uses to construct hybrid sculptural forms, both real and surreal. In his…
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Textile Artist Creates Realistic Tree Stumps from Discarded Clothing
Do you have a bunch of old clothes sitting in your closet that you haven't worn for ages? Why not turn them into realistic tree stumps! That's what textile artist Tamara Kostianovsky did in her latest seriest which creates realistic elements from nature out of strips of fabric and discarded clothing. Tamara forms severed tree…
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Yogi Master Contorts Her Body into Incredible Poses to Overcome Trauma
As a survivor of PTSD, anxiety, depression, and rape, Heidi Williams turned to yoga to rejuvenate her mind, body, and spirit. According to Heidi: "Yoga brought me to a safe place again. The moment I released others from the responsibility of empowering me, is the moment I released myself from being the victim.So many of us…
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Amazingly Artful Staircases From Around the World
Although we’re used to seeing street art appear on the walls and buildings of our cities, more recently artists have started colouring the stairs that we walk on every day. When painted, public stair art is a stunning and unexpected canvas for portraits, geometric patterns, and intricate mosaics. Each rise of a step is one fraction…
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Artist Uses Clever Illustrations To Show Us the Difference Between Homophones
On his blog called Homophones, Weakly, Bruce Worden uses minimalistic illustrations to help us understand the differences between homophones (each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling). Piece or Peace? Sail or Sale? Bare or Bear? Bruce's got an illustration to help you with that. Scroll down and comment…
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So Are You A True Art Expert?
Below are a number of famous paintings by artists from around the world. Can you recognize the artist from just a small section of the painting? Try out our quiz and let us know your score in the comments section below!
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Having a Bad Day? Spare a Thought For This Guy With a Rock on His Head
Officials at the Pompeii archaeological site have announced the dramatic discovery of the skeleton of a man crushed by an enormous stone while trying to flee the explosion of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The man may have escaped the initial violence of Vesuvius in the ancient city of Pompeii, only to be crushed by…
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Ep Idemia
There is a girl who decided that she wants to use her face like a canvas… https://www.instagram.com/ep.idemia/ Grant Wood – American Gothic Leonardo da Vinci – Lady with Ermeline El Greco – A Boy Lighting a Candle Jean Fouquet – Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels Pablo Picasso – Tête de femme (Dora Maar) …
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This art piece reacts to radioactivity
Transforming radioactivity into art. A hypnotizing ripple disturbed by waves of light. A visualization of the particles captured by a Geiger-Müller counter.