Art

June 3, 2011

Car Crash Sculptures

When we see sports cars violently wrapped around a pole, questions immediately start forming inside our heads. How did they find cars like this? Were they taken from real accidents? German artist Dirk Skreber purchased tthe red Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder and black Hyundai Tiburon with the intention of smashing them. He found a vehicle-testing facility in Ohio and choreographed both accidents, before exhibiting them at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

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May 28, 2011

Powerful Mixed Media Art

Christopher Lucania is an artist who uses some unlikely mediums. Sure they include more common items like acrylic, latex and oil, but he also adds in plaster, alcohol and large amounts of copy toner. “I also use a process of transferring manipulated images to the canvas.,” he tells us. “It involves a jigsaw of copied printouts that I fix to the canvas with a gel medium.

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May 25, 2011

Persuasive Strip Advertising

Clever advertising has reached new heights! Dutch outdoor advertising company Interbest uses extremes to bring awareness to their billboard visibility. Here they used a male stripper to grab the attention of onlookers in a campaign that won them the Gold at the 2011 Clio Awards!An overweight male strips down in each billboard with the caption “The sooner you advertise, the better.

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May 19, 2011

Portraits of Authors in Their Own Words

Walt Whitman as “Leaves of Grass”For all those book lovers out there, do we have a treat for you. Ohio-based artist John Sokol creates incredibly interesting portraits of famous authors using their own words! The artist invites us to go back in time to find the writers who've contributed a great deal to our society with their incredible works of literary art.

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My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.