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Thought for the day

2013-04-12T18:01:00.003+05:30

Portrait Made From an Entire Room of Objects

2013-04-12T10:37:00.000+05:30

This Anamorphic Portrait by Bernard Pras is Made From an Entire Room of Objects.

French artist Bernard Pras works almost entirely within the realm of assemblage andanamorposis, a visual illusion where a distorted projection—often made from paint or a collection or objects—must be viewed from a specific vantage point to reconstitute the intended image. His latest piece, a portrait of Malian actor Sotigui Kouyaté, is comprised of numerous objects including clothes, paint, wood, rubber, and other objects found or scavenged around the installation site. Only when viewed through the lens of his camera is the image clearly visible.

source: www.thisiscolossal.com

Unusual Medium, Extraordinary Artworks

2013-04-10T11:43:00.003+05:30

Medium: Chewing Gum. Artist: Maurizio Savini

Medium: Cassette Tape. Artist: Erica Iris Simmons

Medium: Trash. Artist : Tom Deininger

Medium: Prescription Bottles. Artist: Jean Shin

Artist: Joseph Carnevale Medium: Traffic Barrels

Artist: Jean Shin. Medium: Records

Incredible paintings by Bruno Schmeltz

2012-02-14T23:59:00.000+05:30

Bruno Schmeltz was born in Toulouse, France in 1938.

In 1972, he abandoned his decorative work to devote himself to painting in oil. Meeting with Pierre Cardin, the legendary Fashion Designer, was the turning point in his life. Since 1974, he participated in major exhibitions of contemporary art in Paris, and in numerous group exhibitions in France and abroad.

Bruno Schmeltz still paints in his hyper-realistic but surreal in content. His dreamlike landscapes are obviously related to the beauty of the High Pyrenees.

Bruno Schmeltz

Digital Circlism by Ben Heine

2012-02-13T16:55:00.001+05:30

Digital Circlism is a contemporary artistic expression made with digital tools usually featuring celebrities made of thousands of flat circles on a black background. Almost each circle has a different color, a different size and a different tone.

It generally takes between 100 - 180 hours for a single artwork.

It is a digital version of Pointillism.

These are created by Belgian Artist Ben Heine.

Jesus

Marilyn Monroe

Elvis Presley

Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp)

Japanese way of Folding a T-Shirt

2011-09-14T18:42:00.002+05:30

Check out this video. This is an intriguingly interesting way

of folding a t-shirt.

Amazing Bed Design

2011-07-21T17:44:00.002+05:30

Some of these bed designs are very artistic and practical and some are interesting by the way the designers have busted their boundaries.

Which one is your favorite?

Unusual buildings around the world

2011-06-21T18:48:00.000+05:30

Check out some of the unusual Building Architectures from different parts of the world. Some are very aesthetically appealing but not all of them. Furthermore, it’s a result of out-of-the-box thought process. Kudos to the architects!

The Basket Building, Ohio, USA

Dancing Building (Prague, Czech Republic)

Krzywy Domek (Crooked House in English) at Sopot, Poland.

Klein Bottle House, Mornington Peninsula, Australia

Kubuswoning (Cubic Houses), Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Wonderworks-Pigeon-Forge, Tennessee

Kansas City Public Library Parking Garage

Origami Art

2011-06-17T16:19:00.000+05:30

Origami, a Japanese word meaning to fold ("oru") paper ("kami"), is the art of building sculptures by folding paper. Origami is an art form, The goal of this art is to create a representation of an object using geometric folds and crease patterns preferably without the use of gluing or cutting the paper, and using only one piece of square paper.

Wonderful Illustrations by TIAGO HOISEL

2011-06-16T18:25:00.002+05:30

Tiago Hoisel is an Illustrator from Sao Paulo, Brazil. His works are intriguingly interesting.
check it out.

The Beach

Lunch time

Mailman

Meeting with Girlfriend's family

Big Bad Wolf

Fantastic Packaging Designs

2011-06-10T18:44:00.002+05:30

Check out these fantastic Packaging Design. A creative pack can make a huge appeal to the audience.

Dymov Ultra sausage wrappers. Designed by FERMA

Salt and Pepper shaker which looks like two alkaline batteries.

Gatorade sports drink bottle

Animi Causa’s Sardine Paper Clips

Here come a lovely yet simple paper clip design by OTOTO, Israel

Screw Portraits by Andrew Myers

2011-05-03T19:08:00.000+05:30

Andrew Myers is a California (US) based artist who uses screws to create 3- Dimensional artworks. Once the screws are in at the correct depth, (from 7,000 to 10,000 holes by hand) he paints over each head individually to create the finished product,which looks more like a portrait than a sculpture. He drives hundreds of thousands of screws at various depths to create his unique artwork.

He starts with a base, plywood panel, and then places pages of a phone book on top. He then draws out a face and pre-drills 8,000 to 10,000 holes, by hand. As he drills in the screws, Myers doesn’t rely on any computer software to guide him, he figures it out as he goes along. “For me, I consider this a traditional sculpture and all my screws are at different depths,” he says.

Glósóli

2011-01-30T17:26:00.001+05:30

Sigur Ros is just awesome. Just check this out. I don't need to say anything more.

You will understand more than you can speak out.

Typography Art

2010-12-19T18:53:00.001+05:30

"Dylan Roscover is a brilliant graphic designer who creates a wide variety of striking digital media pieces. This portrait of Obama uses typography to expertly illustrate the pressure and incredible burdens the president has to deal with while in office. The craftsmanship and composition of this typography portrait is remarkable and definitely deserves a standing ovation" Tim Bonvallet

What Lies Within by Michael

Michael is a self taught Graphic Designer from Colorado, US

Incredible Carved Leaves Artwork

2010-11-11T15:03:00.001+05:30

Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf's surface to produce an art work on a leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully remove the surface without cutting or removing the veins. The veins add detail into the subject matter of the carving.
The material or most common leaf used in leaf carving is the leaf of a Chinar tree. The Chinar tree is native to India, Pakistan and China. Chinar leaves have a close resemblance to maple leaves.

Leaf Carvings, are exceeding all expectations in popularity. Carved from an actual leaf which has been dried and cured, Leaf Carvings come in various subject matter.

To do these artworks an artist should be incredibly meticulous.

Superb Shopping Bags

2010-08-28T18:38:00.000+05:30

Let me ask you something, what is not art?

Splendid Architecture

2010-08-10T17:13:00.001+05:30

This is the awesome Capital GateTower in Abu Dhabi. It has been certified as the world’s ‘furthest leaning man-made tower’ by the Guinness World Records.

The 160-meter - 35-story tower - high tower leans at an angle of 18 degrees, more than 4 times the angle of the Italy’s Leaning Tower of Pisa. Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company is the owner and developer of the tower. The tower is designed by international architectural firm RMJM. The tower is being built using many innovative techniques that contribute to its unique shape and strength.

Capital Gate integrates several sustainability features. The tower sports a double-glazed façade that facilitates greater energy efficiency. This is due to the air being pre-cooled between the inner and outer facades before being expelled. Also, low-emissivity glass, being used for the first time in the UAE, keeps the building’s interior cool while maintaining transparency and eliminating glare. The building also features a unique stainless steel ‘splash’ descending from the nineteenth floor. This ‘splash acts as a design element as well as a shading device that eliminates 30% of the sun’s heat before it can reach the building. The ‘splash’ also twists around the building towards the south providing the tower maximum protection from sunlight.

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2010-08-09T19:17:00.001+05:30

Papercut Art By Peter Callesen

Another Paper Art work..................!

Peter Callesen is a Danish artist who works almost exclusively with white paper in different objects, paper cuts, installations, and performances. His cool paper works are based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality. Peter’s project sizes range from monumental to minuscule. Do check his gallery and website.

Source : www.yurock.net

Unbelievable Paper craft.

2010-07-15T14:59:00.002+05:30

Awesome Paper craft by Taras Lesko

Incredibly great!

Please find a better adjective to describe it..

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The Principles of Magic

2010-07-06T15:56:00.000+05:30

I am yet to find a person who dislike magic

The Principles of Magic from HMNS on Vimeo.

3D Street Art

2010-07-06T15:36:00.002+05:30

Have you heard about 3D Street Art. It looks like graffiti, but its different.

This particular art style has been getting lots of attention . Only when looked at the right point of

view does the three-dimensional painting become a perfect illusion. Here seeing is believing.

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Displaced Concrete

Done to make an illusion of concrete displaced from the walkway.

Flowing River

This illusion looks like if a river is flowing through the street.

Water Stream

Amazing illusion of water stream running through a public park entrance.

Glacier Cracking

This illusion looks like a crack in glacier.

Power Cord

This illusion is very simple but cool. It makes the yellow road line looks like a power cord.

BMW

This street illusion is of the BMW from Need For Speed Most Wanted, coming from beneath the road.

Pedestal

Illusion above looks like if the guy in the picture is sitting on a pedestal.

Underground City

This illusion show if there is a whole city underground.

Underground Whiskey

Looks like a man pushing the whiskey bottle back in to the ground.

Falling Walkway

The Brick Artist

2010-07-04T17:14:00.001+05:30

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
~Charles Horton Cooley

Some artists use paint, others bronze – But for Nathan Sawaya he chooses to build his awe-inspiring art out of toy building blocks. LEGO® bricks to be exact.

Artist Nathan Sawaya with his creation

With more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his New York studio, Sawaya’s sculptures take many forms.

He had exhibited in almost all the prominent cities around the world.

LEGO, as in the plastic children's toy that has become ubiquitous since it was introduced more than half a century ago. For the past ten years, LEGO has been the medium of choice for lawyer-turned-artist Sawaya, who used nearly a million of the little interlocking bricks for the pieces that make up this crowd-pleasing traveling exhibition. Fun is indeed the operative word here -- there's little hope for you if you can't appreciate the ingenuity, not to mention the sheer exuberance, of Sawaya's creations.

A blonde's dark secret

2010-07-03T18:58:00.001+05:30

How a seductive beauty changed into a demure lady, 300 years after she was painted.

The painting before restoration in 1978 Scholars had already changed their minds about the Italian Renaissance painting ‘Woman at a Window’ several times. Was it a portrait by Palma Vecchio, showing the artist’s daughter? Or even a painting by Lorenzo Lotto? In 1978 a routine restoration revealed a secret lying underneath the paint.

Suspected damages to the underlayer in the woman's brown hair prompted further investigation. But as the subsequent conservation report found, this was not a damaged underlayer at all. It was the original painting.

A dramatic transformation

It was now clear that ‘Woman at a Window’ had been covered with a later repainting. Conservators removed the repainting stage by stage, revealing a woman with a radically altered appearance. Far from being a demure brunette, she was a seductive blonde.

Her jawline had been softened, her breasts more discreetly veiled, and even her eyes had lost their sultry edge.

The painting that was revealed was hardly a likely portrait of an artist’s daughter. (It might even be a courtesan.) Nor does the painting look much like a work by Palma Vecchio. It is now attributed to an unknown Italian artist.

Italian, North, Woman at a Window, probably 1510–30

Victorian tastes

The most likely explanation for the dramatic and rather prudish alterations? The painting had fallen victim to later tastes. Knowing the highly conservative fashions of the day, it seems likely that this happened during the Victorian era. This is supported by the conservation report. The repainting could be removed from the canvas easily, showing that it had to have been done relatively recently.

It is possible that the painting was changed when it first came to the Gallery in 1855 – this cannot be ruled out. However, it seems more likely that the woman was painted over before the work entered the collection. Not all Victorian gentlemen preferred blondes: after the make-over she would have been far more attractive to the art market of the day.

Exhibition 'Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries'
now open at The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN

Opening hours: Daily 10am–6pm, Fridays 10am–9pm

30 June – 12 September

Admission free

Unusual Art

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Unusual Art

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” - Albert Einstein

There are no specific rules for creating an art work. An artist often gets airborne in his flight of fancy.

Here are some of the unusual artworks that will certainly interest you. They may be short lived but live

forever in these images.

Post-it Note art works
Check out these creations that involve covering, cladding, sculpting and decorating with simply sticky pieces of paper

image courtesy: weburbanist.com

ICE SCULPTURE

Fairbanks Ice Festival, Alaska, 2007

Image courtesy: ImUnusual.com

Sand Sculpture

Balloon Dress and Toilet Paper Wedding Dress

Paper Art

Body Art by Guldo Daniel

Bus Art (Ad Campaign)

The list is endless............Hope you really enjoyed it.