Art

January 3, 2014

Surreal Door to Nowhere Spotted in the Alps

On a mountain, high in the Northern Limestone Alps, located in Bavaria, Germany, sits a lone door. Photographer James Hilgenberg captured this stunning shot of the entrance way as it leads to a view of breathtaking beauty. “I saw this door in the Alps this year,” he wrote on National Geographic's Your Shot website. “Thinking about words to the picture a Beatles song came to my mind. ‘Nowhere Man' could be living behind this door.

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December 26, 2013

Mountain Landscape Carved Into Encyclopedia Britannica

Book sculptor Guy Laramee pays homage to the printed version of the Encyclopedia Britannica by carving into a 24-volume set of the informative series of books for his latest piece titled Adieu. With the physical publication of the encyclopedias coming to a halt after 244 years of printing the educational text, Larame decided to bid the obsolete medium farewell in his signature way. The Quebec-based artist's ambitious book sculpture depicts an earthy, textured landscape.

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December 18, 2013

More Celebrities Re-Imagined as Classic Paintings

Jack Nicholson Expert Photoshoppers over at Worth1000 continue to re-imagine classic paintings with celebrities as the models. The skilled photo manipulators have been expanding the site's Modern Renaissance collection with their creative additions, transforming the likes of superstars like Julia Roberts and Jack Nicholson into painted people from centuries past. The cleverly humorous amalgamations disregard any notion of time or aging as they spotlight these present-day celebrities as classically painted portraits.

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December 15, 2013

Wonderfully Witty Animal Comics by Liz Climo

If you're on Tumblr, you may already know the name Liz Climo. She's the artist whose funny comics get thousands (and even tens of thousands) of notes a day as people share her witty works with the world. By day, she's an author and animator for the hit show The Simpsons. By night, she turns into one of the most popular artists on the blogging website.

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