Art

July 20, 2012

Molecule-Like Clusters Amazingly Form the Human Body

For more than forty years, British artist Antony Gormley has impressed us with thought-provoking installations about our own existence as human forms and the relationship our bodies have with the space around us. We have been witness to many of his shockingly massive sculptures including his 200,000 figurative clay mounds that completely dominate every square inch of any exhibit space and his geometric human forms that are frighteningly realistic in shape and structure.

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July 19, 2012

10 Interactive Street Art Works That Rocked

Interactive art has been all the rage. In fact, there's even an exhibition called the 2012 Magic Art Special Exhibition Of China going on right now in the city of Hangzhou. Visitors are encouraged to interact with these 3D paintings, and it seems the goofier you are the better. (Watch the BBC report here and see some awesome photos of it here .) Until August 6, visitors can become a part of these murals.

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July 13, 2012

Painted Photographs of a Man’s Mid-Life Crisis

Interdisciplinary artist and photographer Teun Hocks combines his varied passions for art in his multilayered creations that lie somewhere between photographs and paintings. In an interview with ArtInfo, Hocks explains his arduous process: “There's a big backdrop that I paint or build, or whatever's needed, and I stand in the middle of that. Then I take a picture of myself in black and white and enlarge it.

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July 10, 2012

Dior’s Show-Stopping Set of a Million Flowers

At Christian Dior's Autumn/Winter 2012 Couture show, its new creator director, Belgian designer Raf Simons, made his grand debut even before one model walked down the runway. By decorating five grand rooms inside a Parisian mansion with one million real flowers, he was showing how he would bring a fresh and modern approach to the French fashion house.

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