Art

June 19, 2010

Japanese Surreal Pop Art (17 pieces)

Hailing all the way from Japan, Fuco Ueda is a super-talented artist whose paintings feature beautiful women in surreal situations. To create these intriguing narratives, Ueda paints with acrylic and powdered mineral pigments on paper, cloth, and wood. By looking at her paintings, it's clear that there a few common themes which include music, as well as animal and plant life from the land and sea.

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June 1, 2010

Flying High with Paper Planes (8 pics)

Artist Dawn Ng created this incredible art installation involving thousands of paper planes. Titled “I Fly Like Paper,” planes are seen bursting through a small window, and into a massive indoor exhibition space. The installation is meant to represent the artist's feeling of homesickness, and the planes symbolize a wave of emotion rushing in all at once.

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May 16, 2010

2010 World Cup Official Art Posters (17 pieces)

Football Miracle – Zhong Biao The World Cup will start in less than a month, and for the second time in history, it is is accompanied by a major official art project. The collection features works by seventeen internationally acclaimed artists with a special relation to the African continent. Famous top-ranking artists include William Kentridge, Marlene Dumas and Romero Britto.

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May 4, 2010

Children’s Drawings Come to Life (17 total)

How much fun would it be if you could make childhood drawings come to life? That's what Korean artist Yeondoo Jung did with his creative Wonderland series. Jung transformed crayon drawings filled with sweet and sometimes bizarre imagery into real life photographs. Without the help of any computer graphics, Wonderland takes us from fantasy to reality in one fell swoop.

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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.