Hide Away from the World in Jessica Tremp’s Photography [Interview]

There is something in Jessica Tremp‘s imagery that makes you feel like home wherever you are watching it. Natural lighting, mostly outdoor locations, nudity here and there, but a type of innocent nudity that tends very little towards eroticism is what her photography shows. A Melbourne based photographic artist, Jessica came to our attention with her latest…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Dara Scully Tells Stories in her Nude Photography [Slightly NSFW]

At only 23 years, Spanish Dara Scully is not just a photographer. She’s a free spirit, a storyteller, and a character in her stories, stories which mix fantasy elements of a child’s world with erotic and nude elements of a grown up’s world. It’s a mysterious world oscillating between two extremes, worth discovering and diving…

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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…

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Miniature Worlds Unveil in Christopher Boffoli’s “Big Appetites” Series [Interview]

Tiny figures, meticulously detailed appear as taken from a movie scene in Christopher Boffoli‘s “Big Appetites” series. The humorous scene is humorous unveils itself in surroundings made out of real food environments. Here a strawberry, there some bananas or some pasta, and little people casually fit in the surroundings having a conversation. Each image has…

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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…

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The Addams Family, a Photo Project by Pauline Darley

Pauline Darley, fashion photographer based in France has put up a fun and realistic photo series about the morbid cartoons “The Addams Family“. Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday, Cousin Itt and even The Thing are brought to life in a modern fashionable portrayal through a black and white photographic series. The series brings up some childhood thoughts…

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Mole Empire as Imagined by Giada Laiso

The key to creativity… is a hurricane of inspiration. That is how Giada Laiso, 21 year old art student and photographer imagined Mole Empire, as part of the “Mole Empire imagined by others” series we just launched. Giada explains the idea behind the two thematic photos dedicated to our website. I thought about how Molempire…

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