Tag: sculpture
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Stunning 19th-Century Sculpture Cloaked in a “Translucent” Marble Veil
Sculpture is among the oldest of the arts. Even before painting cave walls, early humans fashioned shapes from stone. From these beginnings, artifacts have evolved to their current complexity. Among the commonly available stones, only marble has a slight translucency i.e. subsurface scattering that is comparable to that of human skin. It is this translucency…
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These Giant Urban Flowers Bloom When Pedestrians Walk Under Them
HQ Architects have designed a set of giant flowers that bloom and react to pedestrians and transportation. Located in Vallero Square in the heart of Jerusalem in Israel, the flowers have been installed as part of the municipality’s effort to improve the urban space. The four giant flowers, that are 30 feet tall, have been…
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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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Sculptor Fills The Forest with Life-Size Sculptures Made from Woven Rods of Willow
It’s not often that you walk through a forest and encounter a life-size statue of a woman shooting a bow and arrow. But that’s exactly what British sculptor Anna and the Willow has crafted. She’s filling the U.K. forests with statues made of willow branches by combining sculpture and basket weaving. The sculptor says she…
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Lego Lovers Post ‘Illegal’ Lego Building Techniques And They Are Actually Genius
There are online communities for almost everything these days, but did you know that there was a community called ‘adult fans of lego’ or AFOL, and it is filled with men and women who haven’t let their enthusiasm for the building game die? While these enthusiasts respect the activity, some have gone off-map to create…
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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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Designer Grows Trees As Artistic Furniture Directly Out Of The Ground
The 'normal' way of making wooden furniture is pretty straightforward: grow trees for a few decades, chop ’em down, cut them into smaller pieces and assemble the pieces into a chair. Derbyshire-based furniture designer Gavin Munro wondered if he could try a wholly different approach: what if he could just grow chairs? What if trees…
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Rainbow Joes Are Tiny Army Men Toy Soldiers In Rainbow Colors
If you’re like us and liked toy soldiers as a kid, you’ll love Rainbow Joes which come in all colors. Concepted and designed by Dan Abramson, each Rainbow Joe is made up of 9 practitioners striking yoga poses. Unlike classic Yoga Joes, each set features a cast of many colors, “with the end pieces in…
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Ceramist Anna Whitehouse Created 100 Unique Clay Vessels in 100 Days
Anna Whitehouse is a ceramic artist based in United Kingdom who set a goal on January 1, 2018 to create a new bottle each day for 100 days. By limiting herself to a single form, Whitehouse was able to stretch her creativity to formulate new designs previously unexplored in her practice. Each white ceramic bottle was…
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Sculptor Twists Steel Wire Into Amazing Metal Masterpieces Merging Nature With Fantasy
Wire magician Martin Debenham can do things with wire that we never thought possible. He has mastered the art of twisting stainless steel wire into fantastical sculptures inspired by nature. Working with something as malleable as wire means that his designs have endless potential, and has allowed him to create any number of animals, people,…