Art

January 20, 2012

Seamlessly Blending into Backgrounds

Lima, Peru-born artist Cecilia Paredes might just remind you of the female version of modern-day magician Liu Bolin. Working with her assistants, she creates photo performance based works that have her seamlessly blended into backgrounds. Acting as both the photographer and the subject, she uses make-up, body paint and any costume she needs to make her virtually disappear.

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January 16, 2012

Futuristic Picasso-Inspired Cubism Portraits

Finding inspiration from world-renowned painter Pablo Picasso's cubism era, illustrator and designer Dave Murray has created his own line of “futuristic cubism” works in his series entitled Polygons. Relying heavily on multi-toned geometric shapes, Murray produces stylized portraits that almost appear like sharp, pixelated images. Although, rather than the standard square-shaped pixels, these works feature primarily triangular blocks of colors to depict pop culture figures.

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January 12, 2012

Elaborate Art on an Office Whiteboard

Data manager Bill Taylor has found new ways of using everyday office supplies to reconnect with art and to jazz up his North Carolina cubicle. “Some people put up pictures and newspaper articles. Maybe calendars or stuffed animals. Perhaps I will get around to those things. For now, I just draw on the whiteboard.

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January 10, 2012

Remarkable Geometric Human Figures by Antony Gormley

World-renowned sculptor Antony Gormley creatively reconstructs the human form. The British artist's works, which have flourished over a 40-year time span, revolve around the human body, focusing not so much on the accuracy of the anatomy as the abstraction of the figures and an audience's interaction with the structures. (If you're a New Yorker, you may recall Gormley's statues that littered the area around Madison Square Park, on solid ground and atop skyscrapers, in 2010.)

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