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Artist Phil Hansen is a resourceful guy.
He ‘paints’ in a variety of unexpected styles using everything from typography to used matches, peanut butter and jelly, wooden slats and dandelions to create portraits and homages to Jimi Hendrix, Mother Theresa, Bruce Lee, Che Guevara and others, including (above) da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, rendered in burger grease.
Lots more of Phil’s work here.
A nifty set of faux-early 20th century advertising prints from the world of Star Wars by graphic Artist Steve Thomas.
Rage Guy – one of the most universally applicable memes ever to emerge from 4Chan, has finally been given the respect its angry ass deserves in the form of a nifty sculpture by cghub artist SLiD3.
Let’s get in the mood. All together now:
FFFFFFUUUUUUUU.
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London-based street artist Alexander Farto (fnarr) aka Vhils (oh, right) makes incredible 3-D layered portraits by painting, etching and chipping away the surface of walls.
And he doesn’t stop at walls. He also applies his considerable skill to metal, wood, billboards, you name it. You can see a full gallery of his many works here.
Los Angeles art gallery R&R celebrates actor Bill Murray with an exhibition of portraits featuring many of the characters he’s portrayed in film over the years.
Quality. Slightly unhinged. A bit like the man himself
Check out this mind-blowing 83-photo Flickr gallery of Playstation print ads from 2007 to 2010: by turns beautiful, clever, provocative and disturbing.
Have you seen the uncomfortable Simpsons intro 18 times? Does your hunger for Banksy remain unsated? Right. Time to chow down on a gigantic 106 pic mega-gallery of Banksy graffiti. It’s right here.
Leaf art: painstakingly detailed hand carvings done on actual leaves using tiny little knives to remove the surface of the leaf without disturbing the veins.
More examples on display in the promotional piece, Nature’s Art. Also this:
‘Leaf-carvings are exceeding all expectations in popularity. Carved from an actual leaf which has been dried and cured, leaf-carvings come in various subject matter. ‘Amazing’, ‘beautiful’ are the words first heard from our customers who purchased one of these’.
Not ‘terrifying’, ‘kitsch’ or ‘witchcraft’, then?
This week a controversial artwork by Maurizio Cattelan took its place in front of the Italian Stock Exchange in Milan’s Piazza Affari. A four metre high ‘bird’, made of solid marble set on a seven-metre high plinth.
It’s entitled ‘L.O.V.E.’
Says it all, really.
