Posts tagged art
comic book paintings from sharon moody on it’s nice that
A Sky Full of Kindness – breathtaking, poetic, beautiful cut-paper illustration by artist Rob Ryan.
These 3D portrait books were carved by artists over at Souverein - using the autobiographies of Vincent Van Gogh and Anne Frank. The idea came from Van Wanten Etctera, a Dutch ad agency. Via
“Suspended Together” -Manal Al-Dowayan
“Suspended Together” is an installation that gives the impression of movement and freedom. However, a closer look at the 200 doves allows the viewer to realize that the doves are actually frozen and suspended with no hope of flight. An even closer look shows that each dove carries on its body a permission document that allows a Saudi woman to travel. Notwithstanding their circumstances, all Saudi women are required to have this document, issued by their appointed male guardian.
The artist reached out to a large group of leading women from Saudi Arabia to donate their permission documents for inclusion in this artwork. “Suspended Together” carries the documents of award-winning scientists, educators, journalists, engineers, artists and leaders with groundbreaking achievements that gave back to their society. The youngest contributor is six months old and the oldest is 60 years old. In the artist’s words, “regardless of age and achievement, when it comes to travel, all these women are treated like a flock of suspended doves.”
Reason Number 32454543 I fucking hate KSA.
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Massive Art Nouveau Mural by a’shop
Made with 50 different colors and over 500 cans of graffiti, these artists recently produced this stunning Goddess on the side of a 5-story high apartment building. Your graffiti is inferior.
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Chris Jordan’s brilliant visualizations of marine statistics. Here, an image made of 2.4 million pieces of plastic, the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution entering the world’s oceans every hour.
Manual Photography Cheat Sheet by Miguel Yatco
nifty.
Tara Donovan, shattered glass print on paper. (via Contemporary Art Truck: Broken Glass)
In the foreground, a young man stands upon a rocky precipice, his back to the viewer. He is wrapped in a dark green overcoat, and grips a walking stick in his right hand. His hair caught in a wind, the wanderer gazes out on a garish landscape covered in a thick sea of fog. In the middle ground, several other ridges, perhaps not unlike the ones the wanderer himself stands upon, jut out from the mass. Through the wreaths of fog, forests of trees can be perceived atop these escarpments. In the far distance, faded mountains rise in the west, gently leveling off into lowland plains in the east. Beyond here, the pervading fog stretches out indefinitely, eventually commingling with the horizon and becoming indistinguishable from the cloud-filled sky.
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog • 1818 • Caspar David Friedrich
Video: The art of Arabic calligraphy | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
“When letters were created as an art, they resembled the human body”
more proof that art imitates life, except that it just looks better in Arabic.
The cube: a primary building block, the simplicity of which reflects the essence of Islam. emel brings you art from around the world, depicting the magnificent beauty of the Ka’ba.
The Magnetism of the Ka’ba - Emel Magazine
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