Tag: painting
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The Malaysian street art scene? So hot right now.
Malaysia may not immediately spring to mind when discussing what locations are hot in the street art world right now. You could be excused for thinking that New York City, San Fran, Melbourne or France are where it’s at when it comes to great street art. While this maybe true, our roving reporter discovered earlier…
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Street Art Painted Traffic Light Boxes in Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne’s streets and laneways have been alive with street art for a number of years now. In the early days, however, the city had a “zero tolerance” policy in relation to this form of art, with fines and arrests not uncommon and beautiful wall murals being painted over by council workers faster than they were…
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Bouncy Coloured Balls Installation by Nike Savvas
Atomic: Full of Love, Full of Wonder was a 2005 coloured balls installation by artist Nike Savvas at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. The piece involved an immense array of suspended bouncy balls creating a dense field of color in the gallery space that was gently moved in waves by a nearby fan.…
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Amazing steampunk sculptures made out of watch parts!
Using the smallest components from repurposed antique pocket watches and other time pieces, New-Jersey based artist Sue Beatrice of All Natural Arts assembles curious sculptures of animals and human figures. Given the nature of watch movements I can’t help but want to see each one of these things spring to life. See much more here. And don’t forget,…
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Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee
For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to…
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Amazingly Artful Tattoos by “Expanded Eye”
Even if tattoos aren’t your cup of tea, you’ve got to appreciate the wonderfully artful creations used in Jade Tomlinson and Kev James’ tattoos. The duo make up Expanded Eye, and split their time between London and Thonon-les-Bains, France where they pursue a wide range of artistic endeavors including illustration, street art, and tattoos. Kev does the…
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Bird Street Art on the Streets of Brazil by L7m
We’ve featured the amazing street art birds of Brazilian artist L7m before to rave reviews. And why not? The mix of realism that morphs into more frenetic strokes of spray paint is fun and visually beautiful. Some of the photos you see here were taken on the streets, while others are works on canvas. See much more…
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Surrealism and optical illusion paintings by Oleg Shuplyak
Oleg Shuplyak is a painter whose works involve portraits of famous personalities drawn in such a way that common objects and scenery make up their distinctive faces in amalgamated form. The pictures are brilliantly, and evocatively multilayered with uncommon depth. Here are some of our favorites:
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Taking hyper-realism to the next level
We’ve showcased a number of seriously talented hyper-realistic painters in the past, but have just been introduced to one who has stopped us dead in our tracks. We cannot find words to describe the amazing talents of Italian artist Emanuele Dascanio, so we’ve chosen some of our favorite images from his most recent body of…
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An A-Z poster of great modern artists
If you are a fan of modern art, this print is made for you. English graphic designer Andy Tuohy has created a striking A-Z print where the letters are represented by 26 of the greatest modern artists in history. Including legendary personalities like Frida Kahlo and Pablo Picasso, this alphabet poster for art-lovers also features lesser known artists like…