Tag: celebrity
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Supervenus: a Graphic Animation That Explores Female Body Image Issues (NSFW)
“Supervenus”, by French artist Frédéric Doazan, is an animation that uses knives, botox needles and liposuction to completely makeover a woman’s body until it’s unrecognizable. It’s terrifying, to be honest, but is something that is becoming more and more common in our celebrity culture where beautiful bodies are turned into monsters in the quest for perfection. Doazan…
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Artists Create the unFappening: Re-Dressing Nude Celebrities (NSFW)
As celeb nudes continue to leak in the recently coined ‘The Fappening’, one movement is bringing decency to its victims. A project named The UNFappening is seeking to cover up the goodies exposed, while showcasing the works of artists at the same time. And it is amazing. Taking submissions form the public, the site publishes celeb nudes…
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Photo Series Showing Doppelgangers of Your Favorite Celebrity
Some say there’s a twin out there for everyone…And these celebrities just might prove them right. Historical doppelgangers for these famous faces have been roaming the world long before we knew them from their movies, TV shows and albums. Makes you wonder if there’s another version of your face from the past out there. And makes Back…
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Injecting Paint in Bubble Wrap to Recreate Iconic Paintings
Who says bubble wrap is just for packaging or stress relief? New York-based artist Bradley Hart, known for creating amazingly realistic pixelated portraits, has expanded his bubble wrap painting series Impressions to include recreations of iconic masterpieces such as Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, and Vincent van Gogh’s Self Portrait with Grey Felt Hat.…
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The Power of Photoshop… Turning Pizza Into a Supermodel
There’s a lot of hoo-ha around the ethics of photoshopping, particularly in the world of art, fashion and beauty. Does it encourage unrealistic expectations of beauty and self-image? Probably. But it turns out this is the least of our problems – you literally can’t trust anything you see now as this video from College Humour shows. That pizza you’re…
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Unique Ultraviolet Portraits Reveal Beauty within Flaws
Brooklyn-based photographer Cara Phillips developed this intriguing portrait project that uses ultraviolet light to reveal every tiny little imperfection across a person’s face. To produce the black and white series, the artist set up on the streets of New York with a sign that said “Free Portraits.” Any willing participants agreed to sit down right…
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Top 10 Blogs of 2013 – artFido
2013 was a big year for artFido. We went from a fledgling start-up with a healthy following in Australia and New Zealand, a puppy if you will, to a thriving international website with a prolific online community, a dog with a very loud bark, in the space of 12 months. With an average of around…
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What Famous Celebrities Would Look Like as 1920s Criminals
If you liked “NYC Artist Shows Us What Famous Celebrities Would Like as Normal People” which has been viewed more than 4 million times (HERE and HERE), and enjoyed 40 Candid Mugshots of Dapper Criminals from the 1920s, you’ll LOVE Michael Jason Enriquez‘s “What Famous Celebrities Would Look Like as 1920s Criminals”! Michael gives us a glimpse…
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Hilarious Dog Portraits of Famous People in History by David Imlay
David Imlay’s approach to painting draws influence from twentieth century American Contemporary Realism as well as Photorealism which both emerged in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. It is David’s hilarious dog portraits based on famous portraits by other artists, however, that caught our eye and brought a smile to our face. Our mascot Fido…
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Brilliantly Bizarre Celebrity Caricatures by Sandro Cabral!
Following on from our very popular blog “What Famous Celebrities Would Look Like as Normal People” (see HERE), we’ve just discovered artist Sandro Cabral who creates the most magnificently bizarre celebrity caricatures. Sandro sketches each image by hand and then transfers them onto his computer for the final digital flourishes. You can see many more images on…