Art

November 1, 2022

Learn How To Illustrate When You Enroll in These Expert-Led Online Classes

Illustration is a fantastic way to express yourself. By utilizing drawing and painting techniques, you can craft images that are slices of life, completely born in your imagination, or a combination of the two. My Modern Met Academy is here to support you in your illustration journey. We’re dedicated to helping you unleash your creativity through e-learning and have courses that are ideal for perfecting your skills. Enthralled by cities?

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October 28, 2022

The Weeknd Put an Artist’s Funny Drawing of Him as His Profile Picture

Sometimes art has a funny way of flattering people. An artist known as Ballpoint Papi (aka @Tw1tterPicasso) started sharing less than perfect portraits of strangers back in 2016. Characterized by their major physical distortions, hasty gestural style, and charming humor, the portraits quickly became sought after. Fans of the artist flooded the comments with requests for their own contorted portraits, to which Ballpoint Papi seemed to oblige.

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October 25, 2022

Artist Creates “Skeleton Key” Skull Made Out of Vintage Keys

What's the first holiday motif that comes to mind when you hear the word Halloween? Is it pumpkins? Ghosts? Skulls? If your reply was the third one, you'll love the aesthetically pleasing composition that Adam Hillman shared just in time for the spooky season. We're no strangers to this visual artist's work—we've featured his colorful arrangements and his recreations of famous paintings before.

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October 21, 2022

Purposely Blurry Oil Paintings Show How People With Impaired Vision See the World

South Africa-based artist Philip Barlow uses his paintings to showcase a unique view of the world. By translating figures and places into simplified shapes, he explores the relationship between color and form, as well as between people and their environment. The striking results of this approach have been compared to the bokeh effect in photography—a phenomenon in which subjects are condensed into blurs of light—and even to how people with impaired vision view the world.

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