Tag: paper
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Optical Illusion Added To The Louvre’s Pyramid Then Immediately Destroyed
Artist JR has created a giant 3D optical illusion from paper that imagines the iconic pyramid at the Musée du Louvre in Paris continuing underground, but it has already been destroyed. Named The Secret of the Great Pyramid, the trompe l’oeil was made from 2,000 stickers surrounding Pritzker Prize-winning architect IM Pei’s glass building, making…
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Artist Creates Miniature Paper Birds Every Day For An Entire Year
Hi, I am Vaishali, myself & my partner Nayan, we are paper cut artists based in India. We have been making paper cut artworks since one year now. We took up the 365 days challenge of creating Miniature birds using paper and watercolors for this entire year of 2018. Here we are sharing our artworks…
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These Amazing Origami and Paper DIY Art Kits Will Help You Master the Art of Paper Folding
The history of origami has a long, interesting history. It followed after the invention of paper and was a result of paper’s use in society. Independent paper folding traditions exist in East Asia, and it is unclear whether they evolved separately or had a common source. Many people believe that it originated in Japan, however…
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Artist Hand-Cuts An Intricate Octopus From A Single Piece of Paper
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Veteran kirie artist Masayo Fukuda has been practicing the art form for 25 years and recently revealed what she says is her greatest masterpiece of 2018. Kirie (切り絵, literally ‘cut picture’) is the Japanese art of paper-cutting. Variations of kirie can be found in cultures around the world but the Japanese version is said to be derived from religious ceremonies and…
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Paper Artist Creates the Most Amazing Paper Cranes with Feathery Details
Cristian Marianciuc is a paper artist who started an ambitious 100-days project back in 2015: to fold and decorate 1 origami crane every single day as part of a visual diary. After the initial 100 days went by, he made another ambitious decision, and that was to continue his project until he reached 365 cranes…
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OWL paperlamps brings wildlife inspired lights into your home
The most recent designs of the papercraft project include large endangered mammals that are downsized and conceptualized as paper table lamps.
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Artist Uses Tightly Rolled Newspapers to Create Incredibly Detailed Animal Sculptures
Remember the paper creations you used to make as a kid? They were probably limited to paper planes and some simple origami. Japanese paper artist Chie Hitotsuyama has taken paper art to a whole other level by creating textured sculptures of animals using a technique involving rolled strips of wet newspaper. The compact application of…
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Miniature Paper Cut Artist Creates 365 Days of Egrets, Sparrows, Pelicans and Other Birds
If you’re a fan on all things miniature, then you should be following India-based cut paper artists Nayan Shrimali and Vaishali Chudasama. They have set out to construct 365 miniature bird species by the end of 2018. To form each work, the pair begins by cutting feathers, beaks, and talons from layers of paper and then using…
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Japanese Artist Uses Complex Cuts To Form Detailed Paper Sea Creatures, Flowers, and Reptiles
One of the most interesting art forms we’ve seen lately has been perfected by Japanese cut paper artist Riki Fukuda who creates mind-bogglingly detailed designs using simple tools: a cutting mat, blade, and paper. She regularly shares her in-progress and finished works on Twitter, including the pencil sketches that she cuts into for her final…
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Artists Creates Coral and Bacteria Installations Using Cut Paper
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Artist Rogan Brown plays with the architecture of nature and organic growth. By identifying patterns and motifs that occur in the natural world in different contexts and at different scales, both macroscopic and microscopic, he has developed a formal, aesthetic vocabulary that he uses to construct hybrid sculptural forms, both real and surreal. In his…