Category: Art
Green Tumors – Made to Dislike by Remedios Vincent
Remedios Vincent is the artist behind Feeas – Made to Dislike, unusual collections of pieces made by reusing old items found in antique shops and flea markets which are reshaped into unique macabre objects of art. From infamous accessories to flower installations, the Spanish artist gives a new purpose to forgotten art pieces and reassembles [...]
Emotional Illustrations by Princess M
And yet not a day goes by on Mole Empire without discovering a new promising artist. This time, our attention goes to Princess M, a young freelance artist based in California who creates amazingly beautiful black ink and water color illustrations. In an attempt to give human emotions a concrete form, the artist creates complex and somehow [...]
Interview with Master Glass Sculptor Henry Richardson
Named 2012 Design Artist of the Year by the Design Center of the Americas, master glass artist Henry Richardson is an innovator into the field of glass sculpture. With techniques known primarily to architects, the artist uses hand-chiseled plates of glass fused through a high-intensity light welding process he innovated. Taking mainly large-scale forms, his sculptures feel translucent [...]
The Two Classical Approaches to Oil Painting
There are many ways that artists use to approach an oil painting. However, artists would have to be knowledgeable on the techniques and approaches of this type of painting prior to the commencement of their work as all steps have to be handled carefully. Among the many ways an artist could utilize in painting, there [...]
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The Abstract Street Art of KEF! [Interview]
Based in Aachen, Germany, KEF! is a young artist who uses the walls of different European capitals to expose his abstracts looking characters, Kef and Kefline. Expressive and playful, these seem to appear inconspicuously with their curios looks and cheer up the most unexpected urban places. Asked what his characters represent and what inspired him [...]
Infographic: Top 100 Art Blogs to Follow in 2013. Molempire.com #12
Looking for new art blogs to read and follow in 2013? We have the honor to occupy 12th place in an infographic realized by Coupon Audit, gathering the top 100 art blogs to follow in 2013. Since 2010 we’ve been bringing you the best news about great art and artists, interviews and interesting art features [...]
Mole Empire As Imagined by Carla Dias
Carla Dias, French make-up artist has got “Mole Empire under her skin”. Not literally, but figuratively of course, with this special effects make-up that she dedicated to us, as part of the “Mole Empire imagined by others” series. With the idea that what we post here on Mole Empire is so sticky that it gets [...]
Have Yourself a Very Mole Empire Christmas!
Photo from snooowflake on tumblr 2012 has been an interesting year for Mole Empire. Thanks to some brilliant artists out there our platform has grown and extended to contain a mixture of photography, art installations, painting, drawing, graphic design, styling, or even artistic creations that are hard to be defined but definitely worth mentioning. We [...]
Greg Holland’s Art or Transforming Images into Paintings
A self-taught photographer with a background in painting, Greg Holland‘s art is an interesting combination of the two forms of art. Continuously exploring the relation between people and their environments, he focuses on portraiture in which faces emerge or recede from the background. In his day time job, Greg is teaching full time, but recently [...]
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Andrea Petrachi’s Futuristic Mechanical Sculptures [Interview]
Every day household items come to life in the mechanical sculptures of Andrea Petrachi aka Himatic. Simple things that are thrown away every day are collected by Andrea and assembled in the most ingenious forms, giving birth to original robots that looks as if taken from a sci-fi movie. Toy parts, electronic pieces, or different [...]
