Art

September 4, 2009

21 Brilliant Illustrations by Noma Bar

Gun Crime Noma Bar is an Israeli artist who takes complicated ideas and simplifies them into graphic form. Using only a few lines and colors, Bar makes us look deep into an illustration. First, we find the surface meaning and then Bar prods us to discover the more complicated story. Particularly in his caricatures, Bar assigns symbols to each person, essentially exposing a side that's not often brought to light.

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August 21, 2009

Digital Art Masterpieces – Ray Caesar (15 pieces)

Ray Caesar's digital art is some of the best I've ever seen. His pieces almost look like paintings due to their unique emotional impact and seamless blending, but each piece is exclusively created using a 3D modeling software called Maya. Some of Caesar's artistic inspiration came from working for 17 years in the Art and Photography Department of The Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto.

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August 14, 2009

Superheroes…Exposed! – Patrick Ballesteros (4 total)

Underneath it All What's the real story behind our favorite comic book superheroes? Artist Patrick Ballesteros exposes us to the things our parents tirelessly hid from us all throughout our childhood. Who's the real Iron Man? Is Superman a manufactured robot? Is Batman actually a prepubescent girl? What's going on here? Born in North Carolina, Patrick grew up in several states and countries before finally settling down in San Diego in 1991.

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August 6, 2009

Amazing Canned Food Art (18 pieces)

You know all that canned food that we give away during Christmas time? Maybe we should create some art with it before we give it away… The most unique food charity in the world, Canstruction is an annual international design/build competition where architects, engineers, designers, and students compete to design and build gigantic structures made entirely from cans of food!

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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.