Art

January 25, 2019

Brilliant Artist Pairs Totally Different Objects to Create Unexpectedly Perfect Matches

Have you ever looked at a light bulb and thought it looked like an egg? Or compared a scoop of ice cream to a ski slope? No? Well art director Stephen McMennamy has. For years he’s been artfully combining photos of unrelated items to create a collection of playfully surreal scenes. His ongoing digital collage series, titled ComboPhotos, is just as joyful as it is thought-provoking.

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January 23, 2019

Sunlight on This Street Installation Casts Shadow Messages About Passage of Time

Indian street artist DAKU recently unveiled an immersive shadow art installation in Panjim, Goa. Titled Theory of Time, the incredible street-long piece features a net of suspended letters that create typographic shadows on the concrete floor, when sunlight shines down on it during the day. The letters spell out phrases related to the passage of time, such as “Time works wonders” and “Time is an illusion.

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January 21, 2019

Ethereal Installation Reimagines the Garden of Eden as a Crystalline Wonderland

In his piece, Man and the Mind, poet Shofi Ahmend calls the Garden of Eden “the heavens' wonder.” This lyrical description of the mythical site struck a chord with Pamela Tan, whose immersive installation, Eden, embodies these ethereal words. In her practice, Tan toes the line between several creative practices, including art, architecture, and design.

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January 20, 2019

The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner: One of the Most Influential Figures of Modern Art

Few artists have had a lasting influence on the history of art like J.M.W Turner. Living and working in 19th-century London, the English painter is known for his interest in powerful subject matter, as evident in both his sublime landscapes and studies of modern machinery. While Turner is seen as a pioneer of Romanticism, he is most celebrated for facilitating the emergence of modern art.

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