Art

April 20, 2012

Fun Interactive Murals that Play Off One Another

I was led to Brooklyn design studio Dark Igloo's work through Web Urbanist's recent post on their creative Google mural. After looking through Dark Igloo's Flickr stream, I came across a set called Analog Interactive Mural that just made me smile from ear to ear. Love how they've created a set of black and white framed art pieces that seem to interact. Stare at them for a bit and you'll see hidden stories emerge.

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April 18, 2012

Giant Fractured Sphere at the Vatican

Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro is known to construct enormous spheres with layers of complexities. One of his monumental orbs stands tall as the centerpiece of the Courtyard of the Pinecone at the Vatican Museum. The structure titled Sfera con Sfera, translated as Sphere within a Sphere, is a bronze statue that appears golden as the sun shines down on it. It is 4 meters (a little over 13 feet) in diameter.

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April 5, 2012

Interview: Gorgeous Pastel Portraits by Emma Uber

Artist Emma Uber has an incredible knack for paintings faces. Her series of pastel portraits involves beautifully detailed–and mainly feminine–faces that blend into backgrounds filled with thick, vibrant strokes, drips and smears of paint, and bursts of colorful shapes and flowers. Her use of a strong color palette and aggressive strokes, set against the soft features and expressionless faces, sparks an intense curiosity about each of her subjects.

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March 27, 2012

Crosshatched Ink Portrait Stencils

Best known for his stencil and spray paint work, artist Kris Trappeniers has undertaken a new art project involving an artist's most basic materials – ink and paper. The Belgium-based artist's series of illustrations, known as Analog haftones, feature contemporary portraits of ordinary people as well as familiar faces of old Hollywood. Trappeniers utilizes a raw, crosshatching style.

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