May 02, 2008
I am not Banksy
Dee Herget's art of screen painting, a Baltimore micro-tradition - They function like decorative one-way mirrors, so that people can see out but not in. (From Britta Gustafson)
Oral Roberts “We Are Partners” LP cover, and many other Incredibly Strange Albums, from Thrift Store Art
Clever I am Banksy t-shirt
Corpus Group - Weird. Another one in the Jodi (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans) tradition. Another nice one from Oliver Laric
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March 30, 2008
Ladies & Gentlemen
A blog dedicated to Toilet Signs. More on flickr
Are You Lonesome Tonight knitted television covers
The Recurring Ruins of the Statue of Liberty
Star Trek beaded curtains. (From No Puedo Creer)
Reactive Art project by Daan Roosegaarde
The Nihilistic Beauty of Weapons Arranged in Patterns. (Apparently, most of those shots are from the Leeds Royal Armouries)
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March 15, 2008
Works of wood
Two from FecalFace: The pattern-making art of Geoffrey Todd Smith
Mike Rea crafts some amazing works out of wood
“Internet figure” Leslie Hall started collecting thrift store sweaters, and became famous for her "gem sweater museum". Here is a Vice magazine article showing some of her 400 gem sweaters. She is now a rap artist with a following on Myspace. (From Day to day)
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March 08, 2008
What do you get when you hand Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake to Chinese contortionists?
Performed by the Great Chinese State Circus. (Yes, I'm sure that you too are tired of YouTube's terrible definition. I look forward to the next generation of online video)
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February 29, 2008
VR Panoramas
“Please keep our streets clean, over 818 people have to sleep on them”. Raising consciousness about the city's homelessness with signs installed on the streets of Toronto by mark daye. (From Under Wire)
An installation by German artist Gregor Schneider in Bondi Beach. It references Australia's immigration detention camps which are often dire places in remote desert locations. Here is an "aerial" view of the installation. (From Peter Murphy's Panoramic VR Weblog)
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February 10, 2008
Mona Lisa Descending A Staircase
"Mona Lisa Descending A Staircase", winner of the 1992 Academy Award for Best Animated Short. By Joan Gratz. More: Microsoft Windows 95 Welcome #2
Projects by Laura Splan
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January 29, 2008
Dennis Hopper on Andy Warhol
Dennis Hopper on Andy Warhol, a 20 min. interview. The 1971 Hopper painting mentioned in the interview
Warhol’s Time Capsule 21
16 Post-It Note Pranks, Sculptures and Murals on "Weburbanist"
Objects embedded in asphalt found in Brooklyn. (A beautiful flickr set. Also from 2Boings)
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January 22, 2008
Light drawings
The body-painting photo-manipulation art of Kim Joon
The beinArt International Surreal Art Collective. (From Surfez avec moi)
Re-post: Russell Higgs’s chaotic self-portraits
Lost artworks may be lost to history either through the deliberate or accidental destruction of the original, or through ignorance and lack of connoisseurship. (From an AskMe thread What significant items have been irretrievably lost?)
Light drawings by Eric Staller
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December 28, 2007
iKlimt
A beautiful Flash site about the life and work of Gustav Klimt. (Also, click on number 7 to see the Klimt house, part of a property for sale in Ibiza)
Inside the Chinese art factories/sweatshops
10 artists who employ everything from ice cream trucks to high explosives in their creations - The new alchemists
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November 19, 2007
Inflatable art
Caril Chasens, wood sculpture
Lomo Wall 360° in London (By MDH Imaging)
Inflatable art (Some NSFW). More by AKAirways
A new Christopher Walken mask by Brandon Bird
Luang Anh Dung, Vietnam propaganda artist
"Gigeresque" art by Kris Kuksi
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November 11, 2007
Yue Mingjun
Yue Minjun, a Chinese avant-garde artist, known for his depiction of toothy, smiling males. More at Asia's Hottest Modern Painters. Bonus: Goldfish
Ray Materson is a nationally renowned, self-taught artist who found inspiration in a pair of socks while in prison. (From Art for housewives)
Beautifully Big is a new line from Florence Studio in Italy celebrating the large person in all of you
Art for the Sky - Giant Living Paintings Made of People. (From Presurfer)
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November 02, 2007
Obey The Giant
The Room where Van Gogh died. (Previously, Van Gogh final view)
Andre the Giant Has a Posse is a street art campaign based on a design by Frank Shepard Fairey created in 1986 in Charleston, South Carolina. Distributed by the skater community, the Andre stickers began showing up in nearly every big city across the U.S.A. Later, when Fairey was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), he released his manifesto. At the time Fairey declared the campaign to be "an experiment in phenomenology." Over time the artwork has been reused in a number of ways and has become a world-wide movement, following in the footsteps of Ivan Stang's Church of the SubGenius and populist World War II icon "Kilroy Was Here". At the same time, Fairey's work has evolved stylistically and semantically into the OBEY Giant campaign
Art by Jaime Pitarch
The evolution of man, on a wall
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September 28, 2007
Archeology of the present
HA Schult's Trash People at the Piazza del Popolo in Rome, made from household waste and glue. Also, Tim Noble and Sue Webster make pictures of themselves using piles of junk and a light
Also, Self Portrait as revealed by trash by eco-artist Tim Gaudreau
Edible art by Katja Gruijters. (From Little Doodles)
The hyperreal paintings of Denis Peterson. (From Spluch)
Denis Darzacq Free Fall
Mixed media nightmares of Mia Makila. (From Oink)
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August 20, 2007
Strokes of Genius
The Institute For Figuring is crocheting a coral reef: a woolly celebration of the intersection of higher geometry and feminine handicraft, and a testimony to the disappearing wonders of the marine world
Hand Painted Golf Ball Art by Steve Ellis
The art of Icelandic 3D artist Bjorn Daniel Svavarsson
Rhinoceros by Rinus Roelofs
Art collective Rinpa Eshidan
Re-post: Strokes of Genius, the art of Phil Hansen
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July 01, 2007
39 plates
Place Settings of Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party, which represents 1,038 women in history—39 women are represented by place settings and another 999 names are inscribed in the Heritage Floor on which the table rests
Van Gogh final view of the outside world
Lisa Bufano, a Dancer With a Difference. (Watch the slideshow. From Le web… et le reste)
The hyper-real world of Ron Mueck
Business cards as little works of art (flickr)
Paintings by Seonna Hong
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June 24, 2007
If you got bad news, you wanna kick them blues
Art made by cocaine & sugar, by Comenius Roethlisberger
Hong Kong Art Archive. (From Hanuman)
The Essential DADA
Albrecht Dürer on stamps and other topical stamps
Processing Pool on flickr
Decomposing Mondrian. Marta de Menezes's latest project is a series of "living" artworks inspired by Mondrian’s paintings. The colors from those paintings are progressively degraded by the bacteria Pseudomonas putida MET94, a "microorganism of putrefaction." (From We Make Money Not Art)
Re-post / Repost: Super Bad, always changing
Probably a re-post: White People Dancing. (YT)
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June 07, 2007
Pointillism
The many variations of Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Pianolina, the interactive Piano by GROTRIAN. Play with the floating tones, create new atmospheric melodies and let yourself be fascinated by the charm of the Pianolina
On my desk: Creative folk share the stuff on their desks
Joshua Opdenaker is the resident artist at Philadelphia Glass Works. Hundreds other glass artists
A wikipedia List of the highest prices paid for paintings ever paid
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April 12, 2007
Little People
Edward Hopper and Benny Goodman. (YouTube)
"Bill lives under other people's beds. When he forgets to bathe, he smells like marshmallows", and other paintings uploaded by travis37a
A calligramme is a text or poem, of a type, or the word for which was, in which the words or letters make up a shape, particularly a shape connected to the subject of the text or poem. One of many Surrealist techniques
Gallery of Miro-like artwork
Little People, a tiny street art project
The art of Thomas Scott Kuebler
Salvador Dali explains Alka Seltzer
Sceneic Backdrop studio art. (From Dump Trumpet)
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March 30, 2007
Donkey Hoty - The viewing of hot donkeys
It has been scientifically proven that the viewing of donkeys, real or artificial, can attune the viewer to a warm and enlightened state of mind. The viewing of donkeys can alleviate the symptoms of day-to-day life and instill a strong feeling of "donkey-viewing" in all but the most hopeless cases. The art of (my friend) Nava Koresh (Click pix to enlarge, and see all galleries inside)
Colin Christian’s Nighttime adventures on Planet Freud
WFMU's Velvet Painting Gallery
Sketches drawn on the New York City subway system
Wrapped Reichstag®, Berlin 1971-95
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February 25, 2007
Influence
Seattle artist Phil Hanson painted 30 different people that influenced him one on top of another on his torso, then he trimmed a little off of the edges, took that strip and rolled it up. (His Bush portrait will remind you of the war president collage that Michael Moore did in April 2004. From Blort)
Goodbrush, the art of Craig Mullins
Embroidered Pillows by Christa Maiwald. (Click on "Embroideries". From Art for housewives)
Socialist realism was the official style in the arts in the Soviet Union from the early 1930s until the decline of Communism in the 1980s. Here is a Russian masterpiece “February 15th, Custom officers arrest 203 kilos of heroin”, a sample of Modern Art Realism
Jen Stark’s paper art. (From Make)
Master Polish poster designers
Welcome to UFO Artwork. For a number of years I have been intrigued by old artwork that appears to depict UFOs. The artwork in my collection consists of frescos, tapestries, illustrations, oil paintings and early photographs
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February 04, 2007
Amazing Hand Painting Art
In a large open room at the National Museum of Fine Arts there are four surveillance cameras, high on the walls, close to the ceiling, like all the other cameras elsewhere. But these four cameras are looking at each other: Pax Securitas. (From Look at some art works)
Erwin Olaf and Janna Syvanoja. (From Weird Art)
Guido Daniele is the artist & body painter whose “Amazing hand art” are being emailed all over the place
Homelessness Begins at Home. The Homeless Simulator
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January 13, 2007
Confusion parading as art
How to make roses from maple leaves
Mondrianum box for small items
My wife’s annoyingly bohemian niece gave us this piece of abstract "art" after her graduation. She was in art school for almost 6 years and, yes folks, this was part of her senior thesis.
If you're interested in completely useless hanging wire objects that merely consume space and inspire nothing more than smirks from visitors, this piece is for you. Or, if you want to send someone a not-so-subtle message letting them know you hate them, this piece would make the perfect gift.
First person to come to my house to pick this crap up gets it
The XXth annual I madonnari street art festival, in front of the Mission in Santa Barbara. Photos by Doc Searls
Sculptural pieces created with paper by means of scoring and folding by Richard Sweeney
Excerpts from The Mystery of Picasso by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Everyone's talking about Jesus by artist John Isaacs
Spray paint artist from Portorož, Slovenia doing sci-fi paintings in less then 10 min. (From Hickory Creek)
Re-post: CD Sculptures by George Radebaugh. (From Top 5 Most Creative Uses for Old CDs)
Minimalist artist Dan Flavin
Ray Johnson, the most famous unknown artist in the world. (Found through How To Draw a Bunny)
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December 15, 2006
Ask a vexillologist
American Ballroom Companion Dance Instruction Manuals Ca. 1490 – 1920. (From The Electric Eclectic)
Olafur Eliasson’s Weather Project
A wonderful question: What region/ country/ division does the red & yellow flag seen in the upper left of Monet's Terrasse à Sainte-Adresse signify?
Famous painters copied photographs
Kinetic Sculptures by Matthew Brand
Carved crayons by Pete Goldlust and by Diem Chau
Seen everywhere: Pencil Sculptures by Jennifer Maestre. Previously posted: Pencil carvings by Mizuta Tasogare and Kato Jado
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November 02, 2006
Descent Into Alzheimer’s
Americans in Paris, 1860–1900
Self-Portraits Chronicle a Descent Into Alzheimer’s. When he learned in 1995 that he had Alzheimer’s disease, William Utermohlen, an American artist in London, responded in characteristic fashion. From that moment on, he began to try to understand it by painting himself. More artwork created by people with Alzheimer's
Hallucci. (From Mira y Calla)
In 1995 I made a really unconventional discovery: Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian man is a rekursive geometrical algorithm for the approximation of the squaring of the circle!
Lauren Porter’s Knitted art
zy'-mo-glyph'-ic, adj. [Gr. zyme leaven + Gr. glyphe carving]
1. Of, or pertaining to, images of fermentation, specifically the solid residue of creative fermentation on natural objects.
2. The collection and arrangement of objects, primarily either natural or weathered by natural forces, for poetic effect.
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Pawlick - Art made from dry dog food (Must be a re-post)
Another re-post: Phillip Blackman’s Biro Art Gallery
Written on the city graffiti project. (Thank you, Axel)
By the way, guess what Bill Maher dressed up as for Halloween
(Pix above from All things beautiful)
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October 13, 2006
Daily painters
Michael Magrath Lot's Tribe installation is a temporary memorial to the other victims of 9 /11. Life-sized figures, cast in ordinary table salt, were placed in Downtown Seattle in the early morning hours of September 11, 2006. There the white, crystalline figures stand, until the rains dissolve them away. (Thank you, Kim)
Salvador Dali for Braniff Airlines
Van Gogh Action Figure. Heat-activated Van Gogh Vanishing Ear Coffee Mug
Wendy Walgate’s ceramics
Re-post: Pricasso’s Penile Art
A blog of daily painters. Daily Paintings by Kim Rhoney. Many others on the sidebar
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September 16, 2006
Birth of Kitsch
Lilliputian Art. (From Computer Love)
Odd Nerdrum, The Dawn of Kitsch
Jaron Childs’s Portraits of people weeping
My Father's Hand. 'My father can no longer hold a pen. He is in a wheelchair and is suffering from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Here are some of his drawings.'
The art of being a redhead, Victiorian paintings featuring women with red hair. (From Quiddity)
Animatronic human sculpture in bronze and stainless steel, by Mark Ho. Other “Different” artists at the Internet Craftsmanship Museum
E.J. Taylor doll maker
The art of roadwork in New Mexico
Black Peacock Indian art and Vedic philosophy
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August 20, 2006
Atomix
Russell Higgs’s chaotic self-portraits
Modern glass made by British artists or foreign artists or students working in Britain
Throwing a toaster. Part of an embroidery set by Kate O'Connor. (From Swiss Miss)
Atomix by Nike Savvas
Pioneers in the Valley of the Heart's Delight are five life-size cutouts painted with the portraits of people that were responsible for advancing the technology that drives Silicon Valley. These cutouts were implanted with small GPS devices and then abandoned in public places in and around San Jose with a request for passers-by to deliver them to a prescribed location
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July 22, 2006
ReHung
Asian Field, an installation of 180,000 hand-sized clay figurines
Re-post: Surrealist Sculptures from ‘Surreal Coconut”
Installations by John Powers
Saturday in the Park recreated in Beloit Wisconsin, from a painting by George Seurat. And a question on Metafilter about other recreations of famous paintings
Tampon Toupee and Tampon Viagra® Cufflinks at “Tampon Crafts”
By the way, if you haven’t done so already, please leave a comment on the post below - The $100 bill is burning a hole in my wallet…
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July 01, 2006
Glasshouses
Gardens of Glass: Dale Chihuly at Kew
The Folding freaks Origami pool on flickr
Cling film + nudity + trees = art in Colombia
Cezanne in Provence. (From Plep)
Pricing a 15th Century oil painting
The Lightning Field 1977, by sculptor Walter De Maria
Sheep in Menashe Kadishman's art
Seen everywhere the last few weeks: Strange statues around the world
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June 05, 2006
Abram, The Safety Ape
Magritte mashups. (Slide the speed handle to 2 sec. if you wish. From Robot Wisdom)
Lifesize driftwood by Heather Jansch
Salvador Dali, surrealist, is asked about the importance of Freud (MP3)
The Strange Self-Portrait of Hananuma Masakichi. When the renowned Japanese sculptor Hananuma Masakichi learned that he was dying of tuberculosis, he vowed to leave behind a life-like portrait of himself for his beloved. He carved his likeness out of wood while studying himself with an adjustable mirror. The hair, fingernails, teeth, and toenails of the sculpture were all pulled from his own body
The BallPoint Pen Art of Jerry Stith
Abram The Safety Ape introduces the Art of Bleeding
The sketchbooks of Mattias Adolfsson
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