29-year-old Vanessa Dualib is a Brazilian artist who gets an almost embarrassing amount of fun at photographing veggies and fruits that were, clearly, ‘born’ to be something else in this world. Her latest work, Playing with my Food, is an on-going project she’s still enthusiastically working on. “It actually started about 5 months ago when …
Over the last 10 years, italian artist Maurizio Savini has been creating a series of sculptures using thousands of pieces of chewing gum. His works have been exhibited internationally and some of his pieces have sold for over US$55,000. Meet below some of his best artworks.
NOTE: The artist is Mirko Siakkou-Flodin, and this particular tire sculpture is at the Jumeirah Beach Residence in Dubai, UAE –thanks Alex, from Neatorama!
Some of the best beach sand sculptures from around the world.
Marilyn Monroe Blackberry Dutch ice carver Helena Bangert works on an ice sculpture in Bremen, northern Germany Dragon Ice Sculpture of New York A replica of the Mayan Temple of Chichen Itza in Mexico. Constructed and sculpted from over 80 individual blocks of frosted ice, also incorporating clear ice for the steps Melting men Ice …
Error message wall painting The Balcons de Barcelona is a mural of 450 m2 on a dividing wall of a building, where by means of the technique of trompe-l’oeil, it imagines a group of outstanding personalities in the life of the city at different times from his history such as Joaquim Blume, Cristóbal Colón, Santiago …
1Arthur Mole’s Living Formations Almost a century ago and without the aid of any pixel-generating computer software, the itinerant photographer Arthur Mole (1889-1983) used his 11 x 14-inch view camera to stage a series of extraordinary mass human photographic spectacles that choreographed living bodies into symbolic formations of religious and national community. In these mass …
Using a projection called anamorphosis to create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle, these four artists create some of the finest 3D pavement illusions we’ve seen. Four artist, one art. 1Edgar Müller At the cutting edge of 3D pavement art is german artist Edgar Müller. His creations transform everyday locations …
Artist Peter Gibson –aka Roadsworth, often referred to as Canada’s own Banksy– creates fascinating artworks over pedestrian crosswalks. A direct response to what he calls the ‘car culture‘ that has gotten him into trouble with the law –he was arrested and charged with 53 counts of mischief–, he began painting the streets of Montreal in …