Art Mediums & Means Of Expression

'What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.' Said Michelangelo.Medium is not bar in art. We are already equipped with multiple art techniques and art mediums. When I talk about art; it is not limited to only watercolor painting or oil painting in terms of painting, only sketching or drawing with pencil in terms of sketch or making sculpture using stone or wood in terms of sculpture. It is more than that.Artists use multiple methods, processes or means of expression to state their points. What would...

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Tinkering With Art Forms

For every decorating need, people can find quality art forms to fit. The angle of art might come from a vintage period, or from fine art in the form of a Ming vase or Renoir painting. The quality art forms might come from a subject a person knows very well or one that has consumed a person's curiosity for years. Since we all have varying tastes, one person's masterpiece might be just ordinary to another.Finding quality art is not a hard task for some however, but finding artwork that is worth the price is difficult to surmise for some. And...

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Photo Art: The Science Behind Morphing Pictures Into Artworks

Hand-painting is an art that came into being very early in time, right from the prehistoric age, when the only known mode of communication was sketching. The initial crude form evolved through continuous tweaking and fine-tuning, down the generations, to the day when the finest of painters were born to marvel the world with their remarkable and inimitable handiwork. The commoners, till today, and hopefully till a distant future, will be able to appreciate the artistic brilliance and splendor of hand paintings fully. Painting as a booming...

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Macro to Micro: Intricate Paper Cut Art Inspired by Nature

What starts as a scientific study takes on a life of its own, guided only by the imagination of artist Rogan Brown as he transforms a sheet of paper into a masterful sculpture with thousands of tiny incisions. Rogan takes his inspiration from natural organic forms, mineral and vegetal, ranging from microscopic individual cells to large-scale geological formations. Each of these sculptures is incredibly time-consuming, with a single work sometimes taking more than five months to complete. Rogan starts with a pattern that catches his eye, carefully...

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Art Wars: Stormtrooper Helmets Get a Colorful Makeover

‘Turning the dark side into the art side,’ a group of renowned contemporary artists have provided their unique spin on iconic Star Wars imagery with custom-painted stormtrooper helmets. Damien Hirst, Mr. Brainwash, Andrew Ainsworth, Joana Vasconcelos and others participated in the Art Wars display at Saatchi Gallery. Each artist was given a replica Stormtrooper helmet made from the original molds used for the first Star Wars movie in 1976, and asked to alter or decorate it however they saw fit. Banksy film subject Mr. Brainwash (‘The Borat of...

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Gravity-Defying House Gives Visitors Climbing Power

Some London residents have recently acquired an incredible ability to scale walls with ease. They climb the facade of a building, sit quietly on windowsills, and simply enjoy their ability to see the world from a different angle. The illusion is made possible by a large-scale installation called Dalston House, created by Argentine artist Leandro Erlich. He painstakingly recreated a London house facade, complete with brickwork detail and ornate windowsills. The facade doesn’t stand up vertically, however. It lies flat on the ground. A huge...

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Macro to Micro: Intricate Paper Cut Art Inspired by Nature

What starts as a scientific study takes on a life of its own, guided only by the imagination of artist Rogan Brown as he transforms a sheet of paper into a masterful sculpture with thousands of tiny incisions. Rogan takes his inspiration from natural organic forms, mineral and vegetal, ranging from microscopic individual cells to large-scale geological formations. Each of these sculptures is incredibly time-consuming, with a single work sometimes taking more than five months to complete. Rogan starts with a pattern that catches his eye, carefully...

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Steampunk Flea: Mechanical Insects by Dimitry Valchev

Spark plugs, kitchen strainers, springs and other random metal parts come together into a ‘steampunk flea’ that looks like it could jump away at any second in this mechanical insect sculpture by Dimitry Valchev. The Bulgarian artist uses scrap metal to create a series of sculptures mimicking mosquitoes and other insects as well as flowers, birds and the Loch Ness monster. Valchev uses all sorts of metal components in ways you wouldn’t expect to create representations of various creatures. One bird has spoons as feathers, while the ‘flower of...

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Interactive Sculpture Echoes the Movements of Spectators

Artist Daniel Rozin creates installation pieces that watch you even more closely than you watch them. His Angles Mirror installation features a triangular base with hundreds of yellow pegs. As you approach the sculpture, it springs to life and the yellow pegs start to spin into new positions. After a moment it becomes apparent: the yellow pieces are mimicking your body’s position and movements. As you shift positions, the yellow pegs rearrange their own positions to echo yours. Rozin calls this and his other similar interactive sculpture “mirrors.”...

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Free T-Shirt & Final Tag: Banksy’s Goodbye to New York City

After an intensive month-long residency in America’s biggest city with daily updates, street artist Banksy is leaving behind a strangely mixed legacy of his trip. Here are some of his last works from the stay, from a thrift store painting hacked and re-donated and an unpublished op-ed piece to a free t-shirt to anyone who wishes to download and print it. ‘The banality of the banality of evil’ is a second-hand shop art conversion purchased, adapted and given back to a local store on 23rd street. It features a World War II Nazi officer added...

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Skinned Buildings: Latex Casts of Derelict Urban Surfaces

Draped like the macabre souvenirs of a serial killer, ghostly skins of old buildings billow on clotheslines, bearing the grime of the surfaces from which they were cast. Amsterdam design studio KNOL Ontwerp preserves the memory of cobblestone streets, brick walls, fireplaces and doors by coating them in latex to create a tactile impression of their surfaces. Installed at the Sandberg Institute of Amsterdam, ‘Skinned’ has these castings hanging like funeral shrouds from the gallery ceiling. The latex is fittingly translucent, almost immaterial,...

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Blanking Banksy: Artists & City Paint Over Pricey NYC Graffiti

Banksy is an artist with the rare power to make walls more valuable after he has vandalized them, which some then seek to alter or  destroy and others fight to protect and save. The highly-publicized and daily-updated images of his residency in New York largely tell the first part of the story, but there is another side to the tale as well about the aftermath, and that side has even more surprising and surreal plot twists. Some graffiti artists feel compelled to cover over his art, out of anger, jealousy or perhaps a mixture of the two....

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Real Life Instagram: Street Views Framed with Colored Filters

Instagram is both broadly adopted and heavily criticized for the faux-vintage filter options provided to users, providing opportunities for aptly-timed and well-executed spoofs like this project. In his Real Life Instagram installation art series, Brazilian artist Bruno Ribeiro has begun framing everything from mundane graffiti on walls and ubiquitous CCTV cameras to famous London monuments. These he carefully surrounds with physical emulations of digital snapshot borders. Hilariously enough, many people then stop to photograph...

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The Museum of Buddhist Art - A Rare Collection of Buddha Statues

The Museum of Buddhist Art in Bangkok is reputed to have the biggest collection of Buddha statues, sculptures and figurines based on Buddhist art work from kingdoms dating back to the TH century AD. The exhibits reflect the cultural heritage of the various kingdoms in Thailand and neighboring kingdoms as well.Visitors to the Museum of Buddhist Art are usually advised to start their tour in an annex to the main building that houses the Kun Yin Palace and Museum which displays statues of Kun Yin, the Goddess of Mercy. The courtyard outside...

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Optical Illusion Art: Is what you get really what you see?

Optical illusion art, also known as op art, is a mathematically-based genre that produces optical illusions. It uses the repetition of form and color to create Moira© patterns that give rise to illusions. It also distorts our sense of depth, causing foreground-background confusion, as well as other perplexing effects.Optical illusion art requires math ingenuity, technical skills and meticulous planning. Because it manipulates the rules of perception, a viewer trying to decipher such a painting may observe movement, hidden images, three-dimensional...

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With Maternity And Baby Photography You Can Immortalise This Time

Any parent will tell you that it all goes by so fast, the pregnancy, the early years. If you want to hold on to those memories forever then you need to get some great photos so that you can always go back. Find a maternity and baby photography expert who can help capture those special time, who can immortalize your child at the important stages of their life. This guide will tell you what to look for in a good photographer.You need to find one that specializes in this type of photography, that is probably the single most important thing...

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The Essential Supplies for Card Making and Scrapbooking Crafts

Paper craft is very popular hobby among people of all ages. It requires lot of creativity and with every creation the work becomes. It is the card making and scrapbooking crafts that have become very popular today. Not only have they become a favorite pastime for many but also a lucrative business. Both these crafts have been there from ancient times, it is now that it has become well recognized in the whole world.Cards are used to send greetings to loved ones on special occasions. This was a very common practice in ancient China and Egypt...

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