Over the past three years, we've come across an endless amount of portraits. Today, we've chosen 20 that really stood out to us for their originality and creativity. What these artists have done is take everyday materials like screws, maps, CDs or junk mail and turn them into incredibly cool and unusual works of art.
Next time you want to remember the most blissful moments of your childhood, take a look at these oil paintings...
Ask anyone and they'll agree, paper stencils are an art in and of themselves.
On the front of a model train running around a darkened room is a small, lit-up LED light. As the train moves slowly along its route, small and large objects are projected onto the walls and ceiling. Due to the movement of the light source, the shadows of the stationary objects appear to move, leaving viewers with the impression that they are passengers riding on the train (watch video, below).
When we see sports cars violently wrapped around a pole, questions immediately start forming inside our heads.
Back in 1995, Alex Queral was just an undergraduate at the University of Washington in Seattle who loved to paint.
What happens when cinema meets art? You get cinemart! Triple threat Fernando Degross (who's equally adept at design and illustration as he is to branding) blends art and cinema to create these fantastic illustrations. By combining different pop culture references – or even icons together like Bart and Charlie Brown – Degross makes us believe that we're all living in one small, silly and spectacularly funny world!
Christopher Lucania is an artist who uses some unlikely mediums.
Design lovers rejoice! If you're looking for something unique and interesting, you've come to the right place.
Step into the Los Angeles County of Museum of Art (LACMA) starting May 29th and get ready to see over 700 creative works from the one and only Tim Burton. This show first debuted at New York's Museum of Modern Art, where it brought in an estimated 810,500 visitors, making it the third most popular show in the museum's history – only behind Matisse in 1992 and Picasso in 1980!
Clever advertising has reached new heights! Dutch outdoor advertising company Interbest uses extremes to bring awareness to their billboard visibility.
