Tag: sculpture
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Blacksmith Evokes Surprisingly Human Forms from Single Steel Bolts
Oslo-based blacksmith and photographer Tobbe Malm manages to create unusually emotional sculptures using old bolts. The series began when Malm stumbled onto the rusting bolts at a barn in Bergsladen, Sweden. He immediately recognized the wide caps and slender stems as having humanistic qualities so he gathered them up and proceeded to heat, forge, twist and bend…
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Starry Night Painted in Miniature on a PUMPKIN SEED by Salavat Fidai
We’re lucky at artFido to be able to share the most amazingly talented art and artists from around the world with you. Every now and then, however, we discover something that truly blows our little minds. Russian miniature artist Salavat Fidai is one such example. Having mastered the art of pencil-head carving (see images below), Salavat…
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Japanese Army Creates HUGE Star Wars Sculpture For Snow Festival
We all know that the Japanese do things a little differently and we love them for it. However some dedicated Star Wars fans in Japan have just created what may be the most epic pieces of Star Wars art that we’ve ever seen! The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces’ 11th Brigade used bulldozers to move 3,500…
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Terracotta Warrior Sculptures Glow in Sydney for Chinese New Year
To celebrate Chinese New Year (which, this year, lies on February 19), visit Dawes Point in Sydney, Australia from February 13 to February 22 to see 90 colorful lantern sculptures that were inspired by the famous Terracotta warriors. Created by Chinese artist Xia Nan, these larger than life lanterns were made from fabric and wire.…
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Pistol-Shaped Sculpture Made from 168 Rotary Telephones!
Artist Joana Vasconcelos gathered and arranged 168 rotary telephones for her larger-than-life sculpture titled Call Center. The Lisbon-based creative transformed the iconic-yet-dated phones into a shiny, cohesive-looking unit that’s as stunning as it is monumental. Its shape is reminiscent of a Beretta pistol, but the only things coming from this handgun are the fantastic receivers that dangle by…
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AMAZING 3D-Printed Fibonacci Zoetrope Sculptures!
These 3d-printed zoetrope sculptures were designed by John Edmark, and they only animate when filmed under a strobe light or with the help of a camera with an extremely short shutter speed. He shares about the project: These are 3-D printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a strobe light. The placement of the appendages…
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Old Car Hubcaps Transformed into Amazing Animal Sculptures
For over twelve years now, Brighton, UK-based artist Ptolemy Elrington has been morphing discarded hubcaps into amazing animal sculptures. While most of us see hubcaps as just replaceable car accessories, Elrington sees them as art, taking these scraps of metal and forming them into everything from a fish and birds, to a shark and dragons.…
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Silhouettes Cut from Butcher Knives by Li Hongbo
Artist Li Hongbo, whose flexible paper sculptures have amazed us previously, has just created a new series of silhouette artworks as part of a solo show at Contemporary by Angela Li in Hong Kong. Each piece is delicately cut from the knife leaving a complementary negative space from which it appears to rise. Hongbo says the pieces are meant…
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Amazing Metal Sculptures Made of Car and Motorcycle Parts!
Czech artist Tomas Vitanovsky creates delightful out of scrapped car and motorcycle parts. Vitanovsky says he stumbled upon his artform through his work as a motorcycle mechanic and racer. Vitanovsky is currently represented by the First Art Gallery in the United Kingdom where you can find his works available for purchase. And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece…
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Ancient Terracotta Warriors Re-Imagined as Pop-Culture Icons
In a whimsical twist on ancient artwork, a terracotta army of sculptures re-imagines cartoon characters as stoic heroes. San Francisco-based artist Lizabeth Eva Rossof designed the army and hired an authentic terracotta-warrior replicator to manufacture the figures. Rossof’s sculptures are comprised of the same materials as the iconic army guarding the tomb of China’s first…