Tag: sculpture
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Strange Fairy-Like Sculptures Created With Body Parts Of Insects
Amsterdam-based artist Cedric Laquieze, previously featured for his animal skeleton sculptures decorated with flowers, has created a new body of work. He calls his little creations ‘Fairies’, they are constructed from the body parts of a myriad of insects, bones and seeds, sculpted into flamboyant quasi-bug creatures that look exotic and alluring. What do you…
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Spectacular Industrial Flying Machines Made From Cardboard by Daniel Agdag
If you want to create detailed and imaginative flying machine sculptures that look like they’re about to take flight, cardboard is hardly the material to use. Unless of course you’re Australian artist Daniel Agdag, who has been toiling away creating a series of new works each more detailed and fascinating than the next. Agdag doesn’t…
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Redditor Makes Statues Take Selfies By Cleverly Positioning His Camera
On a recent visit to the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, one Reddit user had the clever idea of photographing the museum’s collection of plaster Greco-Roman statues to make it look as though they’ve taken a series of statue selfies. The “models” in these selfies are plaster copies of original statues in the Vatican museum.…
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Spectacular wind-blown fairies sculptured from wire!
If you’re like us, you remember wind-blown dandelions fondly – either as a child or with your children today. Artist and sculptor Robin Wight has brought that fondness to life, in huge, wire form, creating dramatic scenes of wind-blown fairies clutching dandelions, clinging to trees, and seemingly suspended in midair. Robin sells a number of DIY…
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Artist Turns Everyday Objects Into Playful Characters
With a creative eye, the casual observer can espy characters or faces in the everyday objects all around us. French artist Gilbert Legrand takes this a step further by painting and otherwise modifying totally mundane objects to turn them into cute characters and give them new life. Legrand lets his active imagination soar by painting…
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Extreme Paper Cuts With Artist Peter Callesen
Peter Callesen can turn an ordinary sheet of white paper into a brilliant story. His delicate installations involve the transformation of flat sheets into cut and folded figures that grow from the paper and fill the 3D space. Callesen says, “It is probably the most common and consumed media used for carrying information today, but…
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Beautiful Vases Constructed from Hundreds of Pencils by Studio Markunpoika
Amalgamated is a new series of vessels by studio markunpoika constructed from assembled pencils. Taking advantage of the pencil’s unique hexagon shape, the pencils are first tightly glued together at each facet to form a solid block. The final pieces are then carved on a machine lathe to reveal the insides of each pencil. Via…
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Glass Paintings and Portraits Sliced From a Loaf of Glass Bread
Master glassblower and stained glass artist Loren Stump in California has wowed the internet with an extraordinary display of virtuosity. He created a “loaf” of glass, called murrine, out of carefully layered glass rods that, when sliced, reveal a painstakingly detailed work of art in cross-section. His greatest work is called “Madonna of the Rocks,”…
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Beautiful Tattooed Porcelain Figures by Jessica Harrison
As part of a new body of sculptural work, artist Jessica Harrison has created a series of delicate porcelain figurines depicting idealized women in ball gowns, with one glaring difference from the collectibles found in your grandmother’s curio: each sculpture is covered neck to wrist in ornate sailor tattoos. This juxtaposition is not unfamiliar territory for Harrison…
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This Intricate Boat Carving Was Made Out Of A Single Olive Pit In 1737
The term “mind-blowing” gets thrown around way too often online, but in this case, it definitely applies. This detailed statue of a Chinese boat was carved out of a single olive pit! This work of unimaginable craftsmanship, detail and skill was created in 1737 by Chinese artist Ch’en Tsu-Chang during the Ch’ing Dynasty. The boat…