Anything is possible, and any important figure can be a Russian general, but only on canvas. Below, check out Steve Payne's unusual portrait artwork. With the help of computers, he transformed Russian generals into famous faces of actors, singers and other great personalities.
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"Ali and Nino" is an 8-meter-high steel sculpture by Georgian sculptor Tamara Kvesitadza, located in the coastal Georgian city of Batumi. Presenting Ali and Nina, who embrace each other for a moment every day and then part forever, it tells a tragic love story based on the novel "Ali and Nina" from 1937.
#combophoto is a project started by Stephen McMennamy. Basically, it is a very simple idea, but with some creativity and no manipulation, it delivers exceptional results. And right here is the genius of McMennamy, who finds scenes with clean backgrounds, so that he can then combine two seemingly unrelated photographs into one meaningful whole. It started with the iPhone, but now the American has already "switched" to a professional camera.
Just over a year ago, French designer Julien Nonnon projected digital graffiti in the form of wild animals in a hipster guise onto Parisian buildings. This time, he projected couples kissing in the French style onto the facades of the French capital.
The best works of art are not only created in studios and museums, but also on the streets.
We present ten of the most unconventional museums that are definitely worth our attention and a visit. We're packing our bags, how about you?
Different works of art are created with different purposes. Artists are inspired by different things: some find inspiration in nature, others in imagination. But the most common inspiration is usually other people - muses. There are quite a few people in history whose style and appearance had a truly inexorable power to not only enchant the artist, but also greatly influenced him. Here are ten of the most iconic muses in the art world, who have influenced some of the greatest artists in our history.
The panda is definitely one of those animal species that is the most iconographic, as its image is extremely fairytale-like. The fact that there are less than 1,600 of them living in the wild has inspired the French artist Paul Grangeon to create a unique art installation together with the World Wildlife Fund, which extremely clearly shows the entire living population of pandas in the world.
Creating animal silhouettes with human bodies and paint has turned into a stunning art genre that is being followed by more and more artists. Only these, with their bodies in composition and color, form such unusual images of animals that the observer has to look more than once to grasp the essence of the structure and separate the "man" from the depiction.
Some time ago, we already wrote about extremely powerful ads that convince with their creative in a different and above all more creative way. This time, the creatives have set themselves the task of presenting us with advertisements that will not make us feel comfortable. Advertisements that remind us of the inappropriate attitude of humans towards animals.
Most of us throw tea bags in the trash after use. But not Ruby Silvious, who uses tea bags as a canvas for her illustrations, emerging from the 363 Days of Tea project. She adds a new one every day that reflects her current mood.
In the Portuguese capital, local artist Arturo Bordalo "Bordalo II" found a way to draw people's attention to the garbage that accumulates in the city. Bordalo II uses discarded car parts, scrap metal and trash to create colorful 3D animal paintings.