Art

July 26, 2012

Color Pencil Portraits of Classic Pop Culture Families

The McClanes, inspired by Die Hard Pop culture artist Kirk Demarais uses his skillful hands to produce color pencil portraits of some of our favorite fictional families from television and films. Whether it's a washed solid color or a red stage curtain, each realistic rendition is accompanied by a cheesy studio portrait backdrop.

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July 20, 2012

Molecule-Like Clusters Amazingly Form the Human Body

For more than forty years, British artist Antony Gormley has impressed us with thought-provoking installations about our own existence as human forms and the relationship our bodies have with the space around us. We have been witness to many of his shockingly massive sculptures including his 200,000 figurative clay mounds that completely dominate every square inch of any exhibit space and his geometric human forms that are frighteningly realistic in shape and structure.

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July 19, 2012

10 Interactive Street Art Works That Rocked

Interactive art has been all the rage. In fact, there's even an exhibition called the 2012 Magic Art Special Exhibition Of China going on right now in the city of Hangzhou. Visitors are encouraged to interact with these 3D paintings, and it seems the goofier you are the better. (Watch the BBC report here and see some awesome photos of it here .) Until August 6, visitors can become a part of these murals.

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July 13, 2012

Painted Photographs of a Man’s Mid-Life Crisis

Interdisciplinary artist and photographer Teun Hocks combines his varied passions for art in his multilayered creations that lie somewhere between photographs and paintings. In an interview with ArtInfo, Hocks explains his arduous process: “There's a big backdrop that I paint or build, or whatever's needed, and I stand in the middle of that. Then I take a picture of myself in black and white and enlarge it.

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