Tag: painting
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Portuguese Street Artist Creates Amazing 3D Creature Street Art
Sergio Odeith is a Portuguese artist who started creating graffiti in the 90’s when it was first gaining prominence in the country. He started with simple sketches on street walls and train tracks but then advanced into large-scale murals. Odeith continued to evolve and adopted the obscure signature style, which he refers to as “sombre…
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Photographic Series Shows The Entire Alphabet Found on the Wing Patterns of Butterflies
Norwegian nature photographer Kjell Bloch Sandved has devoted his photographic career to capturing the beauty of the world we live in and along the way, amassed a collection of butterfly and moth images with interesting patterns on their wings. Sanved’s keen eye took notice of the spectacular shapes the natural designs came in, recognizing their…
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Artists Create Striking Works Making the Most of Negative Space
Negative space is, quite simply, the space that surrounds an object in a image. Just as important as that object itself, negative space helps to define the boundaries of positive space and brings balance to a composition. Considering and improving the balance between negative space and positive space in a composition is considered by many…
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Frida Kahlo’s Colorful Wardrobe Unlocked After Being Hidden for 50 Years
Frida Kahlo’s clothes are like Frida herself: colorful, powerful, filled with passion. Seeing them immediately evokes the richness of her paintings, while poignantly offering an insight into her life. When Mexican artist Frida Kahlo passed away in 1954, her husband, fellow artist Diego Rivera, anguished by her death, sealed her clothes in the bathroom of…
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Painting From The Year 1559 Contains Over 100 Proverbs We Still Use Today
More than 450 years ago, Dutch master painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted The Dutch Proverbs, an oil on wood painting that visually represents over 100 Dutch proverbs. Many of these proverbs still exist today such as ‘when the cat’s away, the mice will play’, or ‘banging your head against a brick wall’. The work…
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Amazing Real-Life Locations of Famous Paintings That You Can Actually Visit
Have you ever wanted to track down the location where your favorite painting was actually created? Wanted to sip a martini in the same spot van Gogh painted his masterpiece or walk along the bridge that inspired Monet’s ‘Water Lillies’ series? With the help of this blog, now you can! See below to explore some…
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Artist Captures Baroque Images By Photographing Her Subjects Underwater At Night
The ‘muses’ photo series by Christy Lee Rogers could be more easily compared to Caravaggio’s baroque paintings than any conventional piece of contemporary photography. The Hawaiian visual artist produces her colorful, luminous works by submerging her subjects, a barrage of bodies, in water at night and photographing them using the refraction of light. In an…
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Ironic and Satirical Illustrations By The Realist That Will Make You Think Twice
Asaf Hanuka is an Israeli illustrator and comic book artist, notable for his autobiographical comic The Realist. He creates illustrations about his life in Israel, parenting and modern society, adding a humorous and sometimes even a surreal twist to the captured moment. His art is colorful and engaging and the themes are thought-provoking. Have a…
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French Street Artist Seth Globepainter Explores The Innocence and Wonder of Childhood
Prolific French Street Artist continues to create childhood-inspired interventions around Paris and the world. In February he held a major museum solo show at MoCA Shanghai which included elaborate sculptures and site-specific installations. He also painted one of his largest pieces to date on the banks of the Seine in Paris, and took part in…
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How People With Bad Eyesight See The World When They Take Off Their Glasses
If you’re shortsighted, you’ll know what it feels like: take of your glasses and the world around you is a complete blur. Philip Barlow, a hyperrealistic artist from Cape Town, has created a series of paintings that replicates this sensation. At a first glance, Barlow’s paintings look like photographs that are out of focus. But…