Posts Tagged ‘art’

Top 24 Amazing Photo Manipulations

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Put simply, photo manipulation is changing photos to create an illusion. Widely accepted as an art form, photo manipulation requires skill as well as an active imagination. Using Photoshop and other photo editing tools, digital artists have recently taken it to mind-blowing levels, creating everything from surreal and dark environments to strange and otherworldly animals. […]

Little Red Riding Hood Has All Grown Up

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Cultural anthropologists at Durham University have arduously assembled the many versions found worldwide of the popular fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood”. The story of violation, rape, murder, picnics and the general dangers to be found in a forest surprisingly has 35 different versions recounted in as many cultures. Here are illustrations of one version […]

Figurative Paintings by Lauri Blank

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“I felt the need to create something new, each day, whether it was a painting, interior design, or classical music. You couldn’t do that in fashion – once successful, the business becomes more about production and less about creativity.” Lauri Blank Lauri Blank creates original fine art oil paintings utilizing old-world styles and techniques. She […]

11 Attractive Illustrations by Mario Vibisono

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11 attractive girls illustrations by artist Mario Wibisono. His style lays between manga and comics. With his talent for graphics, design and vivid imagination, talented  Mario Wibisono makes an exceptional blend traditional techniques and modern digital art. This carefully selected gallery of 11 of his most attractive female characters will leave you amazed.

What Happens when Cartoons Meet Art

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Here is an interesting collection of well known artworks by genius artists like Rembrandt, Raffaello, Michelangelo, Salvador Dali, etc,  but with same funny differences.   You will recognize some of your favorite cartoon characters, but in quite different settings than they usually find themselves in. These characters have been ‘discreetly’ inserted in famous artworks.  In […]

‘Waste Not’ – Chinese Art Project

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The artist Song Dong, one of the most inventive figures in contemporary Chinese art, has turned the contents of his mother’s former home in Beijing, which was also his childhood home, into the installation titled “Waste Not“. These are all everyday life objects collected by Song Dong’s mother over the span of fifty years – […]

Salvador Dali’s Divine Comedy – Inferno

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Between 1951 and 1960, Dali created 101 watercolor drawings to interpret the Salvador Dali Divine Comedy, a poem by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). These works have been reproduced using a wood engraving technique. With this technique, wood engravers carved 3500 blocks for the prints that make up the book. 100 woodblocks were published as a French […]