Visual Art by the Human Body Visual Art by the Human Body Never Be My Friend When I'm bored, I browse through my friends' Facebook images, choose my favorites, and draw them. Sometimes I take... liberties. Let's just call it artistic license. R.I.P. when I drew you looking like a corpse. I occasionally wonder why I still have friends at all. 75 Exceptional Moleskine Notebook Artworks Moleskine notebooks are a favorite among many artists, designers and writers. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and with many different kinds of paper. The elastic closure and pocket in the back of each one adds to their utility. The popularity of Moleskines among the art community ensures that there are thousands of great examples of Moleskine art out there. Flickr alone has a huge pool of Moleskine artists. One group, Moleskine: One Page at a Time, has nearly 4,000 members and more than 36,000 images in their pool. Below are 75 fantastic Moleskine artworks, all collected from Flickr. Fine Art and Illustration A lot of traditional artists opt for Moleskines, due to their variety of paper types and their durability. Moleskine 2 by Andy Gosling: A heart and the letter “A”, created from interwoven arteries. Moleskine book 5, page 72 by Steve Loya. Moleskine Sketches by Jimbradshaw. Moleskine book 1, pages 61 and 62 by Steve Loya. Moleskine “A cat in my head” by Framboisine Berry.
Masterpieces Painted By The Chinese TotallyCoolPix A Van Gogh? You’ve got it. A Dali? 1 A painter eats his lunch in a studio at Dafen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province April 25, 2011. 2 Painting brushes are placed for sale at a shop at Dafen Oil Painting Village, in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, April 25, 2011. 3 Pigment tins are placed on the roof of a studio at Dafen Oil Painting Village, in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, April 25, 2011. 4 A painter works on an oil painting next to a portrait of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong in his studio selling the portraits of U.S. 5 A two-year-old boy, the son of a vendor, sleeps next to oil paintings at a gallery at Dafen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province April 26, 2011. 6 A vendor waits for customers in a gallery at Dafen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province April 26, 2011.
Story Behind Those Stunning Cinematic Gifs Here at theMET, we're always looking for creative projects that catch our eye. More than anything, we love posting about work that pushes boundaries, showing our audience something that has been changed, flipped or spinned into something magically different. Then, we see it as our job to find out the story behind such projects. What inspired the artist or photographer to start down that path? What do they hope others get out of their work? A few days ago, when Met member Mark Huckabee put up a post called Astounding Animated Gifs, we knew we had to dig deeper. Before we go into that more, enjoy these lovely cinemagraphs that they sent directly to us. What's been the response like, so far, on your animated gifs? Which of them is your favorite piece and why? What do you hope others get out of these works? Which gif has been the most popular and why do you think that is? Were you inspired by other gifs or anyone else before you started this more artistic ones? From Me to You website
Art Inspired Outfits II 28 22 34 28 19 27 18 31 33 19 25 15 27 24 22 15 17 23 17 21 20 23 25 22 18 39 32 66 22 16 15 23 23 19 37 32 32 19 27 23 15 71 25 24 20 27 36 34 22 23 62 31 22 39 56 25 16 34 28 18 18 18 20 19 50 20 15 22 26 33 28 16 16 16 39 19 17 18 28 32 15 24 23 15 19 16 25 24 17 23 16 41 30 28 40 30 67 34 Rainbow Thread Art (8 pics) Though we can appreciate Gabriel Dawe's beautiful thread art by just looking at these pictures, we're certain that these photos will never quite do them justice. In fact, we can imagine ourselves walking around these rainbow prisms and just getting lost. I asked Dawe to tell us what he hoped others got out of his artwork including what they represent. "Conceptually, these works are about the human need for shelter," he tells us. "Ultimately, what I want to give the viewers is an experience with light and color. "What is very satisfying is that I hear all the time that people go back to see them and stay for half hour, experiencing the piece. Read the rest of our interview with Dawe below. You are formally trained in art with an MFA in arts and technology at the University of Texas at Dallas. Can you tell us about how your art is influenced by your heritage? On average, how long do these amazing installations take you? What are some of your favorite installations and why?
14 Great Banksy Street Art Photos and Quotes! | Street Art Utopia “There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.” – Banksy “Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. ” – Banksy “Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.” – Banksy “You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. “Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. “People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.” – Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall) “I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me. ” – Banksy “My main problem with cops is that they do what they’re told. “Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.” – Banksy (Wall and Piece) “If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. “Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
Au coin de ma rue How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) - Austin Kleon Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 Buy the book: Amazon | B&N | More… Here’s what a few folks have said about it: “Brilliant and real and true.” Read an excerpt below… Tags: steal like an artist 35 Inspiring Color Palettes from Master Painters | Art Varsity Putting together a great color palette for your design work can be one of the most challenging aspects of any project. And many times, color palettes are built from some source of inspiration. So why not be inspired by some of history’s greatest master artists? Colour Lovers has a lot of great tools including the ability to create color palettes auto-magically from pics you find around the web. It’s a great way to find inspiration when building your palette. Of course, computer algorithms are not perfect; they miss key accent colors frequently and make questionable decisions on extracting the dominant tones. Long story short … here are 35 color pallets extracted from the work of some amazing painters with relative ease thanks to the Colour Lovers tools: William Blake Ancient of Days William Adolphe Bouguereau Birth of Venus Nymphs and Satyr Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros Alexandre Cabanel Cleopatra Paul Cezanne The Basket of Apples La Montagne Saint Victoire Barnes Leonardo Da Vinci St.
Visit Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass at the MFA "Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass" has closed. The video is no longer available. Visit other exhibitions at the MFA Surrealistic Paintings by Tetsuya Ishida (21 pics) Pics | 8 Jun, 2010 | Views: 22058 | These are the paintings of Japanese artist Tetsuya Ishida. He was trying to show the dark side of modern life. Weird. Do you like it? It is just one of the thousands of posts that we have on the Acidcow.com.