Art
April 23, 2010

Mysterious Shadow Art (7 pieces)

Paul Pacotto doesn't think like most conventional artists. Instead of “painting between the lines,” Pacotto bounces light off sculptures to make mysterious shadows spring to life. After welding sheets of brass, Pacotto finishes off his sculptures with 24 carat gold or silver. He then uses a projector to illuminate his pieces, and mysterious shadow characters magically appear. “It is the soul before which the body bends,” he says.

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Art
April 21, 2010

21 Beautiful Modern Vintage Art and Illustrations

Julien Pacaud Perhaps one of the most interesting things an artist or illustrator can do is make something that appears timeless. You're not quite exactly sure in which decade it was created in. These modern vintage pieces have a nostalgic feel to them through the use of colors, typography or imagery but there's an undescribable feeling that it was created in these modern times.

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Art
April 19, 2010

Linnea Strid’s Unbelievable Water Paintings (Not photos)

Gasp Chances are you've never seen an artist who can paint like Linnea Strid. Her unbelievable water paintings are so realistic they make you want to reach out and feel the cool drops splash onto your skin. Representing everything from change, routines, life, salvation, death, and rebirth, water takes on different meanings depending on the context. I was able to catch up with Linnea to ask her about her work.

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Art
April 14, 2010

Urban Street Art: City Faces – C215 (18 pieces)

Lyon French street artist Christian Gumy aka C215 travels around the world beautifying the streets wherever he goes. He usually paints local faces because “faces reflect the personality” of a city. “I paint in the streets people really belonging to the streets: tramps, but also beggars, street orphans from the poorest countries. This is a stencil tradition by the way,” he says.

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