Tag: painting
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Celebrities Who Will Surprise You With Their Secret Artistic Talents
These days, celebrities live under a microscope for all of us to see and dissect their every move. Yet some of them have managed to hide a secret talent. Well, maybe they weren’t hiding it, the media just chose to focus on other things about them. Some of these people started painting before fame, some…
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Artist Creates Pop Mashups By Mixing Famous Paintings With Pop Culture References
We recently came across the work of Instagram user Radioshead who has mastered the craft of mixing collages of pop culture with some of the most famous paintings ever created. There’s lots of Mona Lisa, including Marilyn Monroe-aLisa and Mona eats pasta, a clever collab featuring Lily Sullivan shot by Sarah Bahbah. Radioshead must be…
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When Visitors Found Their Doppelgängers In Museum Paintings And Couldn’t Believe Their Eyes
Ever met your Doppelgänger? These musuem visitors were lucky enought to meet their lookalike in a painting and snapped a selfie to preserve the moment for life. Don’t forget to vote for the best matches below, and let us know in the comments if you ever saw found yourself in a situation like this! [zombify_post]
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Naked Body Painted Model Walks Through A Mall To See If People Notice
In a recent artistic experiment to see how much attention people actually pay to things going on around them, Jen The Body Painter and her daughter painted a model for about 3 hours to make a nice fall outfit. Besides pasties, a thong, and a hat/scarf, the model was basically naked! They walked through the mall to…
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Watch in Amazement as a 17th Century Painting Emerges From 200 Years of Dirt and Grime
If you’ve ever followed the process of art restoration, you will know it is generally a very long and slow process. Very, very slow. We were therefore amazed to watch the videos posted to twitter the other day by art historian and BBC television host Philip Mould that revealed a gleaming 17th century painting hiding underneath…
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An Amazing Optical Illusion Tile System Designed by Casa Ceramica
Casa Ceramica Tile Company has created a wonderfully wild if not slightly dizzying Alice and Wonderland themed, tile floor curving optical illusion welcoming guests to their Manchester, UK showroom. As guests come in, the floor in the entrance way appears to swoop downward and then upward again. Per a video posted by Casa Ceramica, this…
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Artist Turns The World’s Biggest Clowns Into Actual Clowns
In a world filled with clowns running things and clown like behaviour occurring on a daily basis, Texas artist Tony Pro has taken it one step further: turning the world’s clowns into real clowns by painting them in Victorian-era dress and adding a simple red nose. While Tony loves to paint villainous and evil clowns,…
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Amazing Staircases Beautified by Artists From Around the World
Although we’re used to seeing street art appear on the walls and buildings of our cities, more recently artists have started colouring the stairs that we walk on every day. When painted, public stair art is a stunning and unexpected canvas for portraits, geometric patterns, and intricate mosaics. Each rise of a step is one fraction…
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Banksy is Back With “The Walled Off Hotel” in Bethlehem
Banksy is back with a brand new project on the streets of Bethlehem in Palestine. The mysterious artist has just opened a nine room hotel called “The Walled Off Hotel” located in an area very close to the controversial West Bank barrier which has been heavily decorated by artists. “The Walled Off Hotel” exhibits Banksy’s typically politically charged…
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A Collection of the Most Creative Body Art Ever Made
Body painting is an ancient and traditional form of artistic expression that has long existed in many tribal cultures. There is no doubt that the naked body is a perfect work of art on it’s own, but these artists have taken it one step further and turned the human form into an actual canvas! The natural shapes and curves of the human body served…