Art

December 17, 2011

Photorealistic Celebrity Pencil Drawings

Can you believe that these images are pencil drawings? Upon first glance, artist Rick Fortson's celebrity portraits appear to be photo stills of some of the most famous television, film, and music stars. However, each picture has the artist's name legibly etched into it, all in pencil! Fortson, who sometimes refers to himself as Dr. Pencil, is a self-taught illustrator based in Illinois.

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December 15, 2011

Banksy’s New Pixelated Sculpture: Cardinal Sin

“I'm never sure who deserves to be put on a pedestal or crushed under one.” – Banksy Oh, the Catholic church won't be happy about this. Banksy just unveiled a brand new sculpture called Cardinal Sin which is a 18-century stone bust of a priest with its face sawn off and replaced by blank “pixelated” bathroom tiles.

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December 13, 2011

Shockingly Satirical Porcelain Sculptures

It's Murder on the Dance Floor Not all ballerinas are prim and proper, especially the ones depicted by artist Penny Byrne. The Australia-based artist alters the elegance that porcelain figurines customarily portray and replaces that formality with satire and a sprinkle of whimsy. She takes old, weathered ceramic figurines and, through vigorous manipulation, reworks the structures' appearance and meaning.

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December 11, 2011

4,000 Floating Ghost Hats

What a strangely interesting sight! To celebrate internationally-known milliner Hirata Akio's 70 years of work, Nendo (the same Japanese design studio that created a unique rock-climbing exhibit) designed an exhibition that consists of more than 4,000 hats. However, not all of the hats were designed by Hirata Akio. Rather, most are mass-produced non-woven fabric hats [Nendo] created for the space.

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