Art

June 15, 2013

Curved Steel Walls Reflect an Upside Down World

Indian-born British sculptor Anish Kapoor created two giant stainless steel sculptures that are designed to figuratively turn your world upside down. Kapoor's sculptural installation known as C-Curve is a life-size wall of reflective steel that curves around, almost reconnecting with itself, in the shape of the letter C. The outer side of the piece functions as a typical mirror, albeit a little like looking through a fish lens, but fairly normal nonetheless.

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June 8, 2013

Spectacular Film Inspired Paintings by Alice X. Zhang

The Dark Knight New York-based artist Alice X. Zhang creates spectacular portraits of pop culture characters in their artistically dazzling worlds. As of late, she has been especially inspired by cinema, recreating scenes with her brilliant aesthetic and color palette. Each image is digitally painted in Photoshop, taking her up to 4 hours per painting.

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June 3, 2013

Playful Books with Arms Spring to Life

Literary Slip London-based artist Jonathan Wolstenholme's love of literature has inspired him to create a number of whimsical watercolor paintings depicting books with their own set of arms and hands. Rather than simply lying in a bookshelf, waiting to be picked out from a row of similarly shaped novels and read, Wostenholme's surreal characters are given the ability to scoop up or even write their own books.

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June 1, 2013

Powerfully Captivating Surreal Oil Paintings by Joel Rea

In his extensive collection of surreal paintings, artist Joel Rea takes us on extreme adventures. His hyperrealistic landscapes and portraits feature everything from swirls of stormy winds and water to giant dogs chasing tiny people. Using brushes as thin as just a few hairs, the Australian artist spends hour upon hour meticulously developing his oil paintings until they are smooth, saturated and insanely detailed scenes of imaginative realities.

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