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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