Recent works by French street artist OakOak.
Previously: Mooing Violation
Category Archives: Art/Craft
The art of hand-painted movie posters, prevalent in Ghana during the 80s and 90s when dilapidated movie halls, desperate to attract customers, maximised the allure of films by adding scenes and characters from their own imagination.
These days, originals regularly change hands for thousands of dollars.
Casting Couch: A pre-Oscars collaboration on Hollywood Boulevard by British street artist Plastic Jesus and ‘Naked Trump’ artist Joshua “Ginger” Monroe.
Creepy ‘Casting Couch’ Statue Depicting Weinstein Appears Ahead of Oscars (NBC)
Mona
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Boo!
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The giant wool and foam needle-felted masks of Pennsylvania-based British artist Paolo Del Toro – mythical faces with expressions varying from vacant serenity to horror, reminiscent of Japanese Noh theatre masks. Del Toro describes his work thus:
I try to find a place in my sculptures that unifies beauty and ugliness. That’s not to say finding somewhere in the middle, but rather finding the place where both coexist at the same time…
Eight Baller
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Watch and despair of your paltry lathe game as master woodworker Frank Howarth fashions a perfectly smooth 8 ball replica from a chunk of walnut.
Gâteau Gato
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A feline-themed zoetrope cake by artist and pastry chef Alexandre Dubosc featuring the cat trifecta: Felix, Maneki-neko and Catbus.
