Art

January 20, 2025

Flickering Window Lights Transform Architectural Drawings Into Inviting Animated Scenes

Architectural sketches are great for capturing a building’s details, but bringing its life and character to the page isn’t always easy. Ukrainian artist Nikita Busyak has found a unique way to do just that—by digitally enhancing his drawings with warm yellow light. This technique makes the windows appear to glow, transforming the sketches into captivating night scenes. Busyak begins by using Micron pens to craft his cityscapes with intricate linework, hatch shading, and detailed markings.

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January 16, 2025

Surreal Photos Capture the Magic of Charles Pétillon’s Balloon Installations

Artist Charles Pétillon is known for his monumental balloon installations, which have been staged around the world. Now, he's shifting gears and merging his balloon art and photography to create surreal imagery from carefully crafted sets. The result of this is Weightlessness, Pétillon's solo exhibition at Danysz Gallery in Paris. Pétillon's white balloons give rise to ethereal scenes, whether rising up in a misty landscape or billowing out of Brutalist architecture.

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January 12, 2025

Artist’s Graffiti-Style Portraits of Women Are Vibrant Plays on Color

One could say Yoann Bonneville is a portrait artist. But that would hardly encompass everything else that goes on in his artwork. Rather than faithfully representing women's faces, his subjects double as the platform for an experiment in color and shapes. And cleverly, the artist also inserts his initials—YBA—into each composition, innovating how an artist can show ownership over their work with just one look.

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January 10, 2025

Ethereal Paintings Visualize the Borderline State Between Life and Death

For Japanese artist Miho Hirano, boundaries are designed to be breached. No matter how disparate, the elements in her artwork serve as complements rather than contrasts to one another. Hirano’s latest solo exhibition, Boundary, perfectly captures this impulse, being primarily concerned with the relationship between life and death. These forces, however, aren’t illustrated in competition, but instead as intimately connected.

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