All Blog Posts Tagged 'art' (3,540)

There's nothing I enjoy more than seeing movie posters remade by modern artists. The best ones, I believe, are the posters where the artist has put his or her own unique spin on them, giving us that unique experience or aha! moment when we correlate the art to the movie. (Extra bonus points for a retro or vintage modern look.) Just like in my previous post,…

Is it just me or does the mysterious woman in black remind you of Mrs. Steven Jobs? Who else would have the propensity to wear all black and create unbelievably cool magical scenes? Sorry to burst your bubble but these amazing landscapes are actually the work of Belgian artist Magdalena Bors. Using household items she makes the ordinary...extraordinary.…

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Kumi Yamashita has a secret power. She can place wood or metal objects in just the right light to make mysterious shadow people show their true selves. The genius of it all lies in the fact that without the lighting and shadows the objects would never give away her secret. These surprising silhouettes only come out when beckoned to do…

Modern oil paintings never looked so sad and solemn as those from David Graeme Baker. Painting domestic scenes filled with heavy emotion, Baker wants you to feel the weight of the world on your shoulders. Filled with honesty, his paintings are tragically beautiful. The rich colors make the paintings look almost photorealistic, don't they?…

Sexy, edgy and fun, Erik Jones's art can be described in a number of different ways. The common denominator? All of his women are much more complicated than their pretty face has you first believe. Erik's mixed media pieces are composed of watercolor, colored pencil, acrylic and oil. Dark, disturbing yet hauntingly beautiful, isn't it?…

When most people see a bare toilet roll, instincts tell them to throw it away. But as they say, one person's trash is another person's treasure. French artist Anastassia Elias saw the artistic potential in toilet rolls, and proceeded to create intricate scenes inside of them.



Elias spends hours painstakingly cutting out tiny shapes to make detailed…

Blink and you may have missed this totally awesome art exhibition from the World Wildlife Federation last year. Called Pandamonium, WWF invited top British artists and designers to create innovative and memorable artworks out of old panda collection boxes - helping spread WWF's message that the world's rapidly changing climate affects people, wildlife and the natural…

From the woman who brought us those cool construction paper cut-outs comes this Want Vs. Need series. Erin Hanson calls herself the Recovering Lazyholic. I enjoy her quirky and clever sense of humor.…

With a Marlboro dangling from the corner of her mouth, a Brian Viveros woman is hard to miss. Her beauty is undeniable despite her sullen look or half beaten up face. Her mystery will have you guessing, wondering how she could have arrived at this unfortunate place.



Brian will be showing the art you see here tonight, Saturday January 16 from 8:00-11:30 PM…

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What in God's name was McDonald's thinking when they made their mascot a freaky looking clown? Perhaps they wanted to scare kids into giving them their lunch money. Putting together this list of the most disturbing Ronald McDonald art on the web, we learn a few…

Barend Hemmes creates the most badass designer bikes you've ever seen! Taking inspiration from logos, he's so far created two works of art, the Charging Bull and the Jaguar. As Barend states "These concepts are my artistic representation of the logos and in no way do I wish to deface or ridicule them. I am just showing that it's possible to use each logo in a unique way…

Tyson McAdoo is one of those artists who's art rides that fine line between naughty and nice. Teetering on impossibly high heels, his modern day pin-ups look like that girl you find impossibly beautiful but are too scared to go near. If McAdoo's style looks familiar, it's because he's an on-air designer for Cartoon Network, working on kids drawings by day and adult…

Combining art, photography and technology, French photographer Jean Francois Rauzier creates hyperphotos that will blow you away. Just what is a hyperphoto? It's a term coined by Rauzier which means 'stitching' together hundreds or thousands of enormous high-resolution images into one amazing collage. Look closely and you'll see that an incredible amount of time has…