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Bug Art
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There is art and there are bugs. Up till now each one knew their place. That is until I found this artist who creates frighteningly realistic creepy crawleys
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The Art of Fruit
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Sometimes fruit is not just to be eaten, as these photos from an exhibition in Tokyo demonstrate. These are real fruits carved to perfection and too good to eat!
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Fake Japanese Pool
Sometimes seeing isn’t believing.
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Seiji Fujishiro – Japanese cut-art painter
Seiji Fujishiro’s is a Kiri artist . Kiri is the Japanese art of cut-out art, fashioned after the principle of silhouettes. He uses three layers of paper behind glass and back lit. The works are displayed in a dark exhibit area that further enhances the effect. This technique doesn’t transfer well to printed matter of photographs so what you see here is far less impressive than the real thing. If an exhibition arrives at a museum near you, run to it.
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Tokyo Design Festa #33 – cakes good enough to eat!
I found these cakes displayed at the Tokyo Design Festa. They aren’t real but they sure look it.
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Tokyo Design Festa #33 – the presenters
Tokyo Design Fest #33 – animals and monsters
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Tokyo Design Fest #33 – animals and other creatures
Here are some cute animals and not so cute monsters that I found at the festival.
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More from Design Festa
Design Festa #33 the presenters
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Tokyo Design Festa #33 – the presenters
The bi-annual Tokyo Design Festa at the Tokyo Big Sight (and they mean big!) boasts 7000 booths, but because of the calm Japanese manner it is my no means cramped or too tiring. Apart from the exhibitions themselves the exhibitors are often even more interesting as this sample demonstrates.
Live art at its best
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It doesn't get more colorful than this
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Proof that less is more (maybe!)
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Are we supposed to look at the art or the artist?
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Just in case you forgot you're in Japan - art and cosplay combined
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Some artists paint in evening dress. Hope there were no paint stains
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Vigeland
Vigeland Sculpture Park is one of those wonders that you come upon and then can’t resist the necessary Wow!. Because of its location in Frogner Park, Oslo, Norway, it is not as well known as it should be and is thus even more mind blowing. Imagine a great sculptor who’s complete work is collected in one single place and you may begin to realise what I’m getting at. 3 km northwest of the city centre you’ll find 212 bronze and granite sculptures created by Gustav Vigeland depicting the cycle of life.
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Junk Art
I know a man who doesn’t pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car. - Henny Youngman
Here are some great examples of trash art
The Great Trashotaurus
The good the bad and the garbage
The Trash Hatter
Time is Garbage!
Take the Last Train to Trashville
Bison Shmison
Horse Trash
Trashosaurus and Lunch
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Dalton Ghetti: Art on pencil tips – Go Figure!
It takes all types of people to make a world and why should the art world be different. In the category for the what the hell was he thinking of when he started doing this comes Dalton Ghetti whose gift to the world is miniature masterpieces carved on the tips of pencils.
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Li Wel: Unreal Photographs with a Punch of Reality
Li Wel is a 40 year old Chinese photographer who uses the tricks of his trade to make the unbelievable seem real and often shocking. In many of his photographs humans are suspended in mid air – an affect that is either angelic or scary depending on the context. Here are a few of hs more interesting works. A full catalogue can be found on his site Li Wei Art
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A work of Art: this time with real artists
In the search for the ultimate reality show, with a seasoning of culture, A Work of Art may open a new frontier for the fusion between art and reality. If Sarah Jessica Parker and friends have gone this far, why not go all the way. Here is a preview of A Work of Art Celebrity Special.
Sarah Jessica Parker: Welcome to the A Work of Art Celebrity Special. Thanks to an enormous budget, latest DNA breakthroughs and a weirdo producer who wears boxers with pictures of George Washington, we were able to approach major artists, living and dead to appear in our project. More >
But I am the Fire
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This picture is actually one of a series of digital collages on glass by artist Sarah Bush.
I also particularly like the one she calls Backyard Budda below. Check her out.
Marc Sijan: the Modern Day Madame Tussauds
All the photos on this page are of sculptures – they are not real people. Unbelievable but true. I know several people who look less alive!
Marc Sijan’s Superrealistic sculptures are “homages to humanity’s fascination with its own forms — a fascination which has compelled artists throughout the millennia to mirror life in virtually every medium.” Sijan’s figures are incredibly lifelike, sensuous and graceful. In fact, they are so lifelike, they seem always on the verge of movement, a mere instant away from action. The pores in the skin, the tiny hairs, and veins; even the bald spots, the blemishes, the More >
Seiji Fujishiro II
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Seiji Fujishiro III
Seiji also did a formidable amount of work in black and white
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Patricia Piccinini: Science Fiction, Parenthood and Hyper Realism
Wikipedia describes Patricia Piccinini as “an Australian artist ….who works with a wide range of media, including sculpture, video, drawing, installation and digital prints. Her major artworks often reflect her interests in issues such as bioethics, biotechnologies and the environment. ”
A non professional look at her work reveals a stunning juxtaposition of science fiction and parenting. As she mixes alien creatures nurturing their offspring together with human children the results are simultaneously stunning and heartwarming. Judge for yourselves.
How To Eat Yourself
I stumbled upon this great gif made my Carl Krull a Danish illustrator based in Copenhagen and had to share it with you.
Evan Penny: Hyper Realistic Sculpture
From an article by Michael Burtch, 1987
Evan Penny’s works is surrounded by a marvellous silence that permits the viewer to wander about in a complex web of associations and meanings. To attempt to isolate the precise source of its strength is an exercise in futility. Penny has worked hard to neutralize traditional, over-articulated signs, such as narrative gesture and sexuality. What he presents is an invocation of the mute, inexplicable fact of human existence, a presence mediated by socially and culturally defined and constructed identities. The figures are offered up as inexplicable “others”, named subjects without subjecthood, yet they reflect back More >
The Taite Guide to Michelangelo’s David
Michelangelo’s David is one of the best known and respected art pieces in the world. His marble sculpture of the young Israelite who slew Goliath and became king has been the #1 tourist attraction in Florence for centuries. If Michelangelo sculptured the young David today, entirely in the buff, who would probably immediately be arrested as a suspect pedophile. Such is the way of the world.
Here’s what the Internet has done to innocent David.
The result of centuries of pasta
Even a king needs to pick his nose sometimes
Dressed for the kill
Dressed for school
The thinking man's David
Reality Show David
David at Halloween party
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