Sculptures by Brooklyn-based Korean artist Seung Mo Park created by covering fibreglass life-casts with tightly wrapped aluminium wire to capture the delicate folds of material and musculature of the human body.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Paintings by Roland Deschane mashing up the gentle bucolic art of the late American artist Thomas Kinkade with Star Wars imagery.
From a series entitled ‘Just The Two Of Us’ by Austrian photographer Klaus Pitchler, who was invited into the homes of various cosplay enthusiasts to create portraits of each one against the backdrop of their everyday life. Sez he:
Who hasn’t had the desire just to be someone else for awhile? Dressing up is a way of creating an alter ego and a second skin which one’s behaviour can be adjusted to. Regardless of the motivating factors which cause somebody to acquire a costume, the main principle remains the same: the civilian steps behind the mask and turns into somebody else.
At this point, if Banksy farted in a bottle, it would sell for a lot […] Hundreds raced to swarm around his NYC pieces every day all this month. But 10 years ago in May of 2003, Banksy’s first New York art exhibit was a small and humbly-attended affair in the expanded space of a Triple Five Soul retail store on Lafayette.
READ ON: The Untold Story Of Banksy’s First New York Show (Animal New York)
Using cardboard, paint, and foil, french artist Benadetto Bufalino has created ‘la Ferrari sur voiture sans permis’.
Completely functional with cut out windows, it slides over the top of any small car and is – you’ll agree – virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.
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Toon façades and the grotesque chaos beneath – the animated greats subverted by the pencil of artist and graphic designer PEZ.
The sculpture of Swedish artist Anders Krisár.
A bisected figure holding hands with itself. A mask made of pills taken by the artist’s mother. Body parts latticed and indented from life like sense-memory foam.
Ah, Stockholm.
Newtownards Road, East Belfast.
(Thanks Damien McCoy)
From a selection of 21 classics harvested from multiple sources by the wonderful Bored Panda.
Memorable scenes from Breaking Bad by Australian artist Isabella Morawetz