Tag: artist
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Controversial Illustrator Sir Joan Cornellà Gets His Instagram Account Back Again
If you like your comedy dark, then Sir Joan Cornellà is an artist you should be following. The Spanish cartoonist and illustrator, famous for his unsettling, black humor comic strips and artworks, has been banned from posting his work on social media more times than we’ve had hot dinners. And if you look at some…
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Hilarious Before And After Illustrations By Spanish Artist Nacho Diaz
Nacho Diaz is a Spain-based artist whose work will never fail to make you smile. There is nobody else that sees the world the way Diaz does – from the gentle side to villains to quirky and witty illustrations, this artist definitely notices every small detail of our everyday lives. This time he took ordinary…
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Artist Creates a New Logo Every Day For a Year Which Show the Meaning of Words
Some people take a one year challenge to get fit, some people take a one year challenge to learn French, and some people take a one year challenge to learn piano. Artist Daniel Carlmatz decided to do something a little different, and between November 2016 to November 2017, he challenged himself to ordinary terms into…
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Julie Gautier Performs Underwater Choreography in the World’s Deepest Pool
AMA is a recently released short film by deep sea diver and underwater filmmaker Julie Gautier. Performed in the world’s deepest pool near Venice, Italy, the film follows Gautier ‘dancing’ through several uninterrupted minutes of underwater choreography. She holds her breath as she uses controlled movements to twist and glide through the calm water, eventually rising up…
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Malaysian Artist Recreates People’s Childhood Memories With Realistic Dioramas
Bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better, and 51-year-old Malaysian artist Eddie Putera proves it with his stunning miniature dioramas. Putera combines his talents of miniature modeling and photography to create scenes so detailed that it’s hard to believe they are all hand-made mini versions of objects, and not real life still photography. Some of them take…
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Sculptor Creates Giant Angel Using Thousands of Illegal Knifes Confiscated By Police
The creators of a 24ft-high angel statue made of knives collected from police amnesties have said they were overwhelmed by how many weapons they had gathered, but the sculpture has divided opinion among the families of knife crime victims. The sculpture, the work of artist Alfie Bradley, will be finished next autumn and will tour…
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Klimt’s Most Famous Paintings Recreated with Live Models
For the stylebible of this year’s life ball in vienna — an annual AIDS charity event — photographer inge prader has recreated the impression of the vienna secession by bringing the painted personages of gustav klimt to life. Carefully posed models and intricately crafted props duplicate some of klimt’s most iconic masterworks like ‘death and life’…
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The Dizzying Beauty of Vincent Van Gogh’s Art as Seen Through a Tilt-Shift Lens
Inspired by the experimental work of Artcyclopedia, redditor melonshade posted a series in which the art of Vincent Van Gogh was being viewed through a tilt-shift lens. The photographic effect made the artist’s legendary colors pop from the page in a dizzying array of beauty. According to Melonshade, “I saw this a while back and…
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Artist Who Is Tired of Being Asked To Work For Free Starts Drawing Her Client Requests
@forexposure_txt is a Twitter account dedicated to compiling quotes from artists who were expected to work for free. Now an artist has decided to take some of those quotes and use them to inspire various portraits of what she imagines those people look like. They’re part of a series titled “For Exposure,” and they were…
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Can A Single Book Disrupt the Foundation of a Brick Wall?
How much power does one book hold? That’s the central question of a unique installation by Mexican artist Jorge Mendez Blake. For his 2007 project, “The Castle” (named after The Castle by Franz Kafka), Mendez Blake constructed a single wall of bricks—75 feet long, 13 feet high—without mortar. Each brick was placed uniformly and intentionally, as with any wall, but Blake also included an…