Tag: artist
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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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Japanese Artist Tatsuya Tanaka Releases Another 365 Days Calendar And It’s Even Better Than Before
Miniature artist Tatsuya Tanaka has just released a new series of miniature marvels created using the simple combination of everyday objects, tiny model humans, and his boundless imagination. Crinkle-cut potato chips become desert sand dunes, spiral-bound notebooks delineate swimmers poised to compete, and books filled with sticky notes create an urban skyscraper scene. Here are…
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A 132 Year Old Girl Escapes Her Picture Frame And Turns Into A Huge Wheatpaste Mural In Tennessee
Artist Julien de Casabianca was recently invited to create a huge wheatpaste mural at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Tennessee alongside an exhibition and workshop. Julien’s seven-story mural features a melancholic girl pulled from William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s 1886 neoclassical painting “Au pied de la falaise” (At the Foot of The Cliff) which is included in the…
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Illustrator Imagines What It Would Be Like to Have A Pet Octopus, And We Love It
Illustrator Brian Kesinge likes to mix work with pleasure. By day he’s an artist at Disney Studios and by night he’s the author and illustrator of Walking Your Octopus, which is a blend of the Disney world and steampunk universe. The main characters of Walking Your Octopus are Victoria and her per octopus, Otto. According…
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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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BREAKING NEWS: Sotheby’s ‘Banksy-ed’ As Painting ‘Self-Destructs’ Live At Auction
UPDATE: Banksy’s own video of the stunt has just been released HERE. Was Banksy at the evening sale at Sotheby’s on Friday night? That was the question on everyone’s lips when one of the Bristolian street artist’s paintings mysteriously self-destructed as the contemporary auction drew to a close. Girl with a Balloon (2006) was the…
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Artist Re-Appropriates Classical Paintings With A Satirical Twist Using Hundreds Of Layers Of Stencils
Luke Cornish is an Australian artist creating unique, powerful images from handmade stencils. His rise within the contemporary art world has been meteoric, becoming the first artist to be nominated for the Archibald Prize and the Sulman prize with a portrait created entirely out of stencils. A former blue-collar worker from Canberra, Luke’s apathy and…
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People Kept Asking Jon Arton To Paint Them For Free, So He Decided To Teach Them A Lesson
If you're an artist, you've probably got a few interesting stories about people asking you to create free work for them. Birmingham artist Jon Arton is not immune to such requests, but rather than get too annoyed by them he started turning it into a little game. “It can be a bit irritating,” he said.…
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Artist Documents The First Time He Meets His Long Distance Girlfriend After 2 Years of Dating Online Only
It's the stuff of modern-day fairytales. Or miracles. Boy meets girl online and they fall in love. Problem is they live thousands of miles apart and can't meet in person. Could it happen or is this another juicy episode of Catfish? But that's exactly what happened to artist Simone “Simz” Ferriero when he met and…
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An Amazing 1903 Guide to Wave Designs for Japanese Craftsmen is Now Available Online FOR FREE
Not a lot is known about Japanese artist Mori Yuzan, apart from the fact that he hailed from Kyoto, worked in the Nihonga style, and died in 1917. In 1903, his wave designs were published in a resource guide for Japanese craftsmen looking to add aquatic motifs to their wares. The three-volume series, titled Hamonshū,…