What if you could get rid of all the billboard ads around the world and replace them with art? While this may seem like fantasy, French artist Etienne Lavie is already looking to make this a reality on the streets of Paris with his series OMG Who Stole My Ads? Lavie quietly covers large advertisements… Continue reading French Artist Replaces Billboard Ads in Paris With Classic Art
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Living the Fast Life: Smeared Paintings that Depict Speeding through NYC
Paying homage to the city that never sleeps, artist Alexandra Pacula creates oil paintings that depict the constant state of motion in New York City. Her veloCity exhibition on display at the Mighty Tanaka gallery in Brooklyn features beautiful landscapes and architecture blurred by the sparkling lights buzzing through the city. Here’s the gallery’s description… Continue reading Living the Fast Life: Smeared Paintings that Depict Speeding through NYC
Glimpses of Colorful Urban Cityscapes Emerge from Abstract Graffiti
If you were to travel the streets of most cities, you’ll often find buildings and signs tagged with lots of graffiti and other artwork. Just as graffiti can paint the tale of what it’s like to live in a particular city, Korean-based artist Jieun Park looks to portray that in more literal terms. Park creates… Continue reading Glimpses of Colorful Urban Cityscapes Emerge from Abstract Graffiti
Illustrating World Issues through Satirical Art
Do you often look at the world through the binoculars of Facebook? Polish artist Pawel Kuczynski draws clever paintings that challenge our preconceived notions of society and usual way of thinking. His artwork often is centered around real world issues like poverty, war and pollution. Take his piece that questions the integrity and honesty of… Continue reading Illustrating World Issues through Satirical Art
14 Classic Renaissance Paintings Turned into Ridiculous GIFs
Citizens of the interwebs: what if you took classic paintings of the Renaissance and turned them into the ridiculous GIFs of the modern era that we know and love today? We present you the artwork of Scorpion Dagger, a Montreal-based blogger who posts one insane GIF per day, often portraying older paintings with a decidedly… Continue reading 14 Classic Renaissance Paintings Turned into Ridiculous GIFs
3-D Printer Recreates Indentical Replicas of Classic Paintings
3-D printing has set itself up to be one of the most exciting new developments of modern technology. Soon we could be printing cars, replacement body parts, food and now, as it turns out, even van Gogh masterpieces! Tim Zaman, a Dutch researcher at Delft University of Technology, has constructed a photographic scanning system that… Continue reading 3-D Printer Recreates Indentical Replicas of Classic Paintings
The Art of Optical Illusion: When Two Paintings Merge into One
Throughout the ages, artwork has often been known to take on dual realities or multiple meanings, but these paintings by Oleg Shuplyak take that notion to a whole new level. At first glance, these paintings seem like normal landscapes. Suddenly, though, famous faces will jump out at you from the background of each painting. Or,… Continue reading The Art of Optical Illusion: When Two Paintings Merge into One
10 Intricate Paintings Made by Fingerprint Patterns
Are you looking to find some art you could really identify with? That’s what artist Nicolas Jolly hopes to create with paintings that use intricate whorl patterns reminiscent of the van Gogh style of post-impressionist artwork, that appear to be made of fingerprint patterns the closer you look! Nicolas uses thousands of tiny black lines… Continue reading 10 Intricate Paintings Made by Fingerprint Patterns
