While you may already know Chuck Close as that incredibly talented American artist who creates those huge photorealistic paintings, you may never have seen this mind-blowing piece. Called Fanny/Fingerpainting, it's a beautiful portrait of Close's wife's late grandmother Fanny created with fingerprints!
It's the Instagram photo that's soaring through the web.
New York-based sculptor Urs Fischer gives a whole new meaning to “roman candles.
I'm a sucker for these simple but clever wall installations. They always manage to make me crack a smile. Austrian artist and visual poet Anatol Knotek created this one called Nothing Lasts Forever.
In 2010, graphic designer Hubert Tereszkiewicz earned his BFA from the University of Silesia in Cieszyn, Poland.
What is it about the human eye that is all at once mysterious and revealing?
Crouching at 85 feet tall and weighing about 60 tons, Antony Gormley's Exposure sculpture is rooted to ground in central Netherlands, reacting over time to the changing environment. Riddled with funding problems, It took nearly six years to complete. “One of the known environmental changes that is happening is the rising of the sea level through global warming,” explains Gormley.
Like a beautifully wrapped present, this stunning self-portrait by 21-year-old Olga Valeska got dropped into our inbox today.
Though artwork created in Photoshop or Illustrator can be nothing short of extraordinary, sometimes it's more impressive to see pieces...
If you were at this year's Luminale, an architecture and design festival held in Frankfurt, Germany, you may have witnessed, first-hand, some of the most beautiful lighting fixtures we've ever seen. Studio Drift's exhibition was the first time they showed three major lighting concepts together – Flylight, Shylight and Fragile Future. You'll have to watch the video, below, to really appreciate how they've combined nature and technology to create something almost otherworldly.
Created from discarded plastic bottles, these giant fish make a powerful environmental statement as they emerge from the sands of...
London-based artist Benedetta Ubaldini uses an interesting medium to craft a variety of three dimensional sculptures.
