Tag: artist
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Another Priceless Spanish Artwork Falls Victim to Well-Intentioned Restorer
It’s happened again. Another medieval artwork has fallen victim to an amateur restoration project in a Spanish church, leaving experts and community leaders furious. A local handicraft teacher was commissioned to restore the 16th century statue of St George inside a church in the town of Navarre – but the finished product has been compared to…
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Designer Creates Gorgeous Font That Evolves As You Type With It
This being a digital age, our lives are suffused with fonts. Just about every word we read is set in a font crafted by an artist, a team of them, or even multiple generations of designers. But for the non-graphic designers among us, who mostly interact with font without a second thought, the medium’s possibilities may…
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The Reindeer Riders: Amazing Photography of the Reindeer People From Mongolia
If the descendants of ancient legends truly exist among us today, these are they. Despite the odds, the nomads of Outer Mongolia are a people seemingly immune from degeneration, still living in such proximity to wild animals with a certain spiritual wisdom, sense of healing and well-being lost to our notions of time and laws…
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Twitter Warrior Continues to “Fix” People’s Photos by Taking Their Requests Way Too Literally
We previously warned you about James Fridman here. He’s the digital artist and twitter warrior who has made a career out of taking pictures people send him and turning them into finished products that make the owner’s wish they never sent them to him in the first place. But it’s all in the name of…
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A Giant Serpent Emerges From the Sea Off the Coast of France
If you’re after something a little different and love skeletons, head to France. That’s because there you will find Serpent d’océan, a giant aluminum sea serpent skeleton by artist Huang Yong Ping situated off the shore of the Loire River where it empties into the Bay of Biscay just outside of Nantes, France. Measuring nearly…
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Illustrator Creates Comics That Show the Everyday Differences Between China and Western Cultures
As you're probably aware, China does things a little differently from the rest of the Western World. Comic artist Tiny Eyes – aka Siyu – has made it her mission to showcase these differences in her witty comic series that highlights things that she, as someone born and raised in Beijing, has experienced when communicating…
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Child Prodigy Aged 11 Creates the Most Amazing Nature-Inspired Drawings You’ve Ever Seen
11-year-old Dušan Krtolica is a child prodigy artist from Serbia who creates mind-blowing drawings of wildlife. The fifth grade student first began to draw when he was only two years old. He has already had three national solo exhibitions to his name – the first two by the age of eight. Dušan’s drawings are mostly…
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Master Baker Creates Intricate Artistic Pies That Look Too Good To Eat
Everyone loves a good pie. But what if it LOOKED as good as it TASTED? Introducing master baker Karin Pfeiff Boschek who does exactly that, making pies that look almost too good to eat. Almost. Most of her creations are of the sweet variety and each pie crust designs is hand-cut from the baker’s own…
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This Underwater Dance by Julie Gautier is Simply Stunning
AMA is a breathtaking short film by Julie Gautier which she describes as: “A film without words that tells a story that everyone can interpret in their own way, according to their own experience, everything is suggested, nothing is imposed. I wanted to put in this film my biggest pain in this world, so that…
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Access the Largest Collection of Frida Kahlo’s Work Ever Assembled, All FREE Online
Some films achieve the rare feat of being both colorful escapist fantasy and artful means of reconnecting us with our imperiled humanity. Pixar’s wonderful, animated Coco is such a film, “an exploration of values,” writes Jia Tolentino at The New Yorker, “a story of a multigenerational matriarchy, rooted in the past—whereas real life, these days, feels…