Steady Hands & A Keen Eye

These beautiful designs are cut from a single piece of paper.

Check out more from

Parth Kothekar

(click on his name}

If you are interested in buying one (or more) of these beautiful pieces, stop on by {Etsy}.

Body Art . . . As Commercial Art

 Emma Hack

Click on her name to visit her website, loaded with much more incredible beauty.

You may remember her from her work on the Gotye music video, "Someone That I Used to Know," or from her work in advertising.

Here is a detail of the process for the above work.
(for the Australia Motor Accident commission)

Street Art . . . for the Homeless

The sign says:

TEXT THEM HOME

Text HOMELESS to 50555 to donate $10. 

And help the 50,000 Homeless in LA find a new place to call home.

{Source}

MSG/ DATA rates may apply. Full terms at mGive.com/T and read the privacy policy. 

All proceeds will benefit the Weingart Center’s many homeless assistance programs.

{Weingart Center Website} {Weingart Center Youtube Channel}

A Mash-Up of Art and its Inspiration

The River Thames

with

"St. Paul's Cathedral on Lord Mayor's Day"

by Canaletto

A remix of old and new London by redditer shystone, who found the locations depicted in 18th and 19th century works and then layered the paintings on top of the contemporary photographs. Sometimes the match up is uncanny.

SOURCES (and more pics): Imgur, The Dish, & My Modern Met

Rife With Symbology!

                             CRIS SHAW   

Madonna of the Particle 

by

 Chris Shaw, 2013

I’m not sure exactly where my fas­ci­na­tion with Madon­nas was born, but I’ve loved Icons of all kinds for a very long time.

As an artist I’m intrigued with the the way icons present their ideas – an eas­ily under­stood, blunt cen­tral image jux­ta­posed with deep sym­bol­ism and cryp­tic geo­met­ric foun­da­tions. Icons also have a rea­son for exist­ing, they are con­vey­ers of information.

The mod­ern icons I cre­ate also con­vey infor­ma­tion, it could be a sci­en­tific con­cept, a polit­i­cal state­ment, or a pop-culture ref­er­ence. Regard­less, each icon has a story and a rea­son for existing.

In this body of work I use the Madonna as the vehi­cle to lit­er­ally carry the ideas I’ve cho­sen to por­tray. The titles are straight for­ward. How­ever, under­ly­ing and obfus­cated by the image is a rigid geo­met­ric base, over which the Madonna icon is con­structed. The geom­e­try within this base is a rid­dle to deci­pher as are many of the sym­bols within.  . . .

The “Madonna of the Par­ti­cle” and the “Madonna of Dark Mat­ter” both con­cern the recently dis­cov­ered Higgs-Boson par­ti­cle. The geo­met­ric base used within each image con­tains nat­ural ratios and curves that ref­er­ence the sub-atomic par­ti­cle col­li­sions which led to the “God Particle’s” discovery.  . . .

Each paint­ing com­mu­ni­cates its secrets in var­i­ous ways.

 

Madonna of the Dark Matter

by

 Chris Shaw, 2013

I Have Mixed Emotions About This . . . After All, They're . . . Books.

Justin Rowe is an artist and paper sculptor from Cambridge,

 who works as an academic bookseller.

         from: Days Fall Like Leaves

~ Five Gold Rings ~

WOW! Just WOW!

. . . a wooden panel painted a solid white, thousands of small galvanized nails,

 and a single, unbroken, common sewing thread.

Kumi Yamashita

A Bit of Art for the New Year . . .

Michelangelo's 
"Pull My Finger"

I Just Love Museums

 

The mission of the Barnes Foundation, which dates back to its founding in 1922, is “the promotion of the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts.”

"Evolution"

Ben Heine.com

And how!

Beautiful

Guido Daniele

Meet Chelsea Fairclough . . . Please

PaintAbility.org is the web site dedicated to Chelsea Fairclough and her very first art exhibition and fundraising event, entitled Paintability.

All of the paintings are produced by Chelsea using the wheels of her electric wheelchair, and the funds raised at the exhibition will support the Make a Wish Foundation in Singapore, and Chelsea’s immediate medical expenses and considerable on going care costs.

14 year old Chelsea is scheduled to have spinal fusion surgery to control the pronounced curvature of her spine and make it easier for her to sit in her wheelchair and have pain free days. The surgery is scheduled to take place during the summer 2012.

Where: ReDot Fine Art Gallery at Tanjong Pagar, Singapore (more)
When:  Thursday 10 May 2012 from 6pm
Ticket Cost:   S$25 per person or S$50 per family of four

If you are unable to attend, you can still make a donation.
(Information and link are on the site)

Recycling at its Most Beautiful

Alexander Korzer-Robinson

Medieval Tweets

 

 Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art

by Michael Camille

Who Needs Art?!?

by Edgar Muller.

I Discovered an Artist today I'd never Heard of

and I was just struck by the power and beauty of his works.

 An interview with the painter, and some other links: here, here, here, & here.

Kerry James Marshall.

"A Picture is Worth . . .

                               a thousand words.

"Dance of Death" 

David Gothard, Antiwar Art.

All About the Benjamins

 An online project called Make Your Franklin calls on artists and designers to put their own creative stamp on the $100 bill.

FUNDING FOR THE ARTS Always Seems to be An Easy Target When CUTS Need to be Made.

But, perhaps we should rethink that strategy, because it seems that:

Arts don't just prettify science or make technology more aesthetic; they often make both possible. ...

[T]he computer chips that run virtually all our devices today are made using a combination of three classic artistic inventions: etching, silk screen printing, and photolithography. Data from NASA and NSA satellites is enhanced using artistic techniques such as chiaroscuro (a Renaissance invention) and false coloring (the Fauvists) to increase the contrast so it's easier to perceive the important information.

- - - by Robert Root-Bernstein,

The Art of Scientific and Technological Innovations.

 Who woulda thought?

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Boris Andreev