The French street art artist Levalet is to blame for the fact that the streets of Paris are decorated with comical graffiti that make us think. His works, the content of which is linked to the specificity of the street or the locations he explores, also have a generous measure of humor.
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Matthias Jung is a designer who, with the help of surreal collages, conjures up a fantasy world dominated by structurally completely impossible houses.
The Švicarija Creative Center is a new cultural, educational and creative center located in the exceptional surroundings of Ljubljana's Tivoli City Park and is part of the International Graphic Arts Center. It offers working and living studios for local artists and residencies for international artists, and it also hosts a lively cultural program.
Graffiti is most often associated with bad things, as various subcultures use it to express their rebellion. This does not mean, however, that we do not classify them as works of art. What's more, some graffiti is worth admiring.
Ever since Donald Trump was elected as the 45th president of the United States, we have been listening to the reactions of politicians, businessmen, celebrities and other individuals whose words count for something. Since you probably already have the statement at the top of your head, we preferred to look at how artists reacted to the election of the Slovenian son-in-law to the position of American president.
In the days filled with anxiety caused by the coronavirus pandemic, art institutions and museums have decided to share some works from their museum collections with a wide, global public.
South Korean architecture firm Shinslab Architecture has turned an old rusty ship into a spectacular building bursting with greenery. It is located next to the entrance of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul. It is the award-winning Temp'L pavilion with an upside-down ship, with which the young authors wanted to show that beauty is everywhere.
The unrealistic, perfect image of the dolls and their influence on the self-image of women still stirs up spirits - the toy industry creates proportionally shaped barbies, which affects the understanding of the beauty of girls all over the world from an early age. The perfect appearance has thus become an ideal that we all must achieve. Olga Kamenetskaya wants to change this illusion, so she removed the make-up from all the barbies. And what are they like now?
The German artist Tony Spyra, currently working in Austria, gives the viewer a mentally challenging impulse with his work. By using everyday objects, his artworks give a sense of homeliness, and the viewer realizes after a while that the artist has taken him into his own thoughts about social problems.
The German art duo known as Zebrating creates street art for people who walk the world with their eyes open.
If you don't have a gift for drawing, but you want to create, even if it seems absurd, it's worth trying the 'Make Stuff With Butt' technique.
As children, we were taught that it is not wise to play with fire. Well, Steven Spazuk has obviously been sitting on his ears, as he has learned how to draw smudges, that is drawing with the help of smoke and soot left behind by a candle flame. In the last 15 years, he has perfected the so-called fumage painting technique, with which he uses flame instead of brushes and drawings for painting. Each of his works of art is unique due to the unpredictability of the flame.