Tag: artist
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The Art Institute of Chicago Makes Thousands of Hi-Res Images Available To Download For Free
After the fire that totally destroyed Brazil’s Museu Nacional in Rio, many people lamented that the museum had not digitally backed up its collection and pointed to the event as a tragic example of why such digitization is so necessary. Just a couple decades ago, storing and displaying this much information was impossible, so it…
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Make Up Artist Creates The Most Amazing Looks We’ve Ever Seen For Halloween On Herself
Monika Falcik is a 23 year old make up artist from Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Although she originally studied Spanish philology, one year ago she changed direction and moved into makeup for a living. According to Monika, makeup is her passion and when she’s working time just stands still. She lives for the moments…
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Street Artist Uses Plastic Wrap To Paint Giant Animals In The Forest
Evgeny Ches is a graffiti and contemporary artist from Moscow, Russia. Inspired by the work of French artists Kanos and Astro, Evgeny uses a technique he calls CelloGraff, where he stretches cellophane around two trees, to spray paint his murals onto the plastic wrap. His latest installation occurred deep in a Moscow forest, and here…
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Artist Turns People Into Disney-Like Cartoon Characters, And Here’s The Result
For the past few years, artist Joaslin has been painting adorable Disney and Pixar animation-worthy characters. From real to fictional characters, Joaslin envelops the charming subjects with vibrant colors and lights assisted by a digital tablet and photoshop. She brings out their cuteness during the semi-realistic creation process, in which she aims for the unique…
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The masterpieces of art photoshopped by Mehmet Geren
It is a surreal world which is created by Mehmet Geren with his digital collages, combining classical art with contemporary pop culture.
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A Japanese Fashion Designer Combines Traditional Kimonos With Modern Streetwear
From bushido pants to samurai sword umbrella sheaths, we’ve seen a lot of hybrid fashion ideas come out of Japan in recent years. Now, as the weather begins to cool, it’s time for a new range of garments to make their appearance, and this year everyone is scrambling to get their hands on the Hanten…
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Artist Turns Life-Size Origami Into Dramatic Paper Costumes Worn For Ballet Dancers
Origami, fashion and ballet dancers are an unlikely trio. Except if you’re Montreal-based artists Melika Dez and Pauline Loctin who have combined their imaginations into a creative collaboration called PLI.Ē Project. The project fuses Dez’s skills as a movement photographer with Loctin’s expertise in paper art, and showcases dancers around the world wearing hand-folded paper…
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Cheeky Illustrator Reimagines Iconic Artists as Modern-Day Hipsters
Ever wonder what your favourite artists would look like as hipsters? Wonder no more, as illustrator Amit Shimoni has just released a series of portrait paintings documenting this exact thing as part of his ongoing series, aptly called HIPSTORY. From Frida Kahlo to Salvador Dali, Amit has managed to hipster-ise all of them. Scroll down…
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The Japanese Art of Creating Unusually Useless Inventions
Back in the 1990s, we remember flicking through the pages of the Unuseless Japanese Inventions series at bookstores. Each one features about a hundred ostensibly real Japanese devices, photographed and described with a disarming straightforwardness, that mash up other consumer products in outwardly bizarre ways: chopsticks whose attached miniature electric fan cools ramen noodles en route…