Today Google celebrates Austrian painter Gustav Klimt’s 150th birthday by displaying a doodle of the artists’ most famous painting, “The Kiss”. Known as the most representative painting from Klimt’s “Golden Phase”, “The Kiss” is a square painting depicting a couple embracing one another, and was made using the gold leaf. It is one of the…
Since Marcel Duchamp exhibited his pissoir (urinal, also called “Fountain”) in New York, a real landmark in art’s history, art has never been the same. Oscar Wilde’s Art of Art’s sake has yielded to the Avantgarde’s gesture, which took precedence over the object. Now we might consider Wang Zhiyuan as one of the contemporary artists…
Henrietta Harris, an Auckland based illustrator is the author behind a series of portraits entitled ironically “Hold Still“. Ironically because the faces seem to tear off from the portraits, taking of a personality of their own, or drifting to another place. The portraits, a combination of illustrations and paintings on watercolor and gouaches are, intriguing…
This story is about the power of social media, and mainly the power of a platform that is referenced as the main source of jokes both in real life and on the internet. No, we’re not talking about reddit, but about 9gag. Yes, the links that constantly appear in your Facebook feed. And this time…
Photo from The Poppy’s by the Tree Killer on Tumblr The famous painting entitled “The Scream” by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch just became the most expensive painting sold at an auction, after it fetched no more than $119.9 million. The expressionist painting was sold recently during a Sotheby’s auction to an anonymous buyer, thus also…
It’s not easy to affirm yourself as an artist nowadays, especially if you are a young one, but this girl is determined to. We are talking about Andreea S., an eighteen year old student from Romania who developed from an early age an extraordinary artistic sense. “An aspiring animator and film-maker” as she describes herself,…
Were you aware that Darth Vader‘s favorite Yoga positions are “Revolved Lunge”, “Reverse Warrior” and “Half Lord of the Fishes”? Well neither was I, but self-entitled writer/artist/world conqueror Rob Osborne was creative enough to imagine this. And much more… Ranging from $13 to $19, posters of the Star Wars Yoga are available to buy on…
Their work is carried in the backstage and you rarely get to see them, you rather see the final product. They’re just one of those people who know that beauty is in every person and try to emphasize it so that the others notice it as well. Only they know the transformation they put a…
The latest Eastern – European cold snap has brought delayed trains and flights, closed roads and houses buried under several feet of snow. However, despite all those bad things, the cold also brought some amazing photo opportunities. And the best one is the recently frozen Black Sea. The fairytale-like photos made the news around the…
Coffee is for millions of people, that tasty and energizing black beverage they can’t live without. Of course, in time, an overwhelmingly number of combinations and aromas have been created – each tastier than the other. The legend tells that 700 years ago, while out to pasture his sheep, an Ethiopian shepherd saw them eating leaves…
Globes, garlands, reindeers or stars. Christmas decorations haven’t changed that much over the years. That doesn’t mean that we have to satisfy our desire to decorate with just buying them. One of the simplest methods to make your own Christmas decorations has always been the art of paper-folding: Origami. Each time when we think about…
Sometimes there’s more to the eye than you initially perceive. Apparently just some amazing oil paintings, the works of Ukrainian artist Oleg Shuplyak’s hide a surreal world once you take a step back and watch more closely. Through carefully placed objects, characters, coloring and shadows, there is a second image in the painting which creates…