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The top 20 artworks from the Upfest Street Art Festival in Bristol
Upfest one of the biggest street art festival in Europe and as such attracts artists from all of the country and the world. Applications are taken months in advance and to paint at the festival is the sort of thing that easily finds its way onto the average street artists bucket list.
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Artists and architects think differently to everyone else – you only have to hear them talk.
Artists have to think about reality in different ways to other people every day in their jobs. Painters have to create an imaginary 3D image on a 2D plane, performing a certain magic. Sculptors turn a block of marble into something almost living. Architects can design buildings that would seem impossible.
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Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori paints three-dimensional goldfish.
The fish are painted meticulously, layer by layer, the sandwiched slices revealing slightly more about each creature, similar to the function of a 3D printer.
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Free digital archive makes over 50 million pieces of European art available online.
The Europeana Collections has over 50 million pieces of European history in its digital archive from more than 3,000 institutions. The Europeana Photography collection, which has over 2 million photographs. Music, art, fashion, sport, natural history, and maps and geography are some of the other collections. More than 3 million of the archives are openly licensed, meaning you can use them for any purpose, and many of the images are available in high resolution.
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Notebooks Now Online
Browse 570 Digitized Pages. By Josh Jones.
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Street art: PichiAvo in Hasselt - Belgium. (oc)
Spanish street art duo Pichi & Avo collaborated in 2007, for an intriguing blend of traditional graffiti and renderings of mythological figures( influenced by ancient Greek sculpture). The precise shading and color is painted only with spray paint.
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Twin skulls transform the facade of this 19th century French castle.
Artist Okuda San Miguel recently transformed a 19th-century castle in Château, France in a work titled Skull in the Mirror. After stints as a school and holiday center for children, the castle was abandoned for nearly 30 years.
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lee kang-bin recreates artistic masterpieces in the form of latte art
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Street art photography master Henrik Haven boarded The Crystal Ship in Ostend.
The Crystal Ship, a contemporary art festival which encouraged artists to adorn the walls of this town.
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Myth-Maker of the Brothel
Of all the masters of the woodblock print in the Edo Period, Utamaro has the most colorful reputation. Hokusai was perhaps the greatest draughtsman… By Ian Buruma.
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Matisse: The Joy of Things
Matisse, unsurprisingly, had strong feelings about the objects of his daily life. They delighted, inspired, or confounded him, in their humble ordinariness and in all that they evoked. These mundane items, the organizing principle for the exhilarating show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, served as sparks for Matisse’s art. By Claire Messud.
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Imaginary Portraits
The British-Ghanaian artist creates compelling character studies of people who don’t exist, reflecting her twin talents as a writer and a painter. By Zadie Smith.
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Saul Steinberg’s View of the World
As a cartoonist myself, I am dismayed that there’s little of Saul Steinberg’s that I can steal, the crossover in the Venn diagram of the image-as-itself versus as-what-it-represents being depressingly slim. I am painfully aware that in comics, stories generally kill the image. But Steinberg’s images grow and even live on the page; somewhere in the viewing of a Steinberg drawing the reader follows not only his line, but also his line of thought. By Chris Ware.
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10+ Master-class balloon animals by Japanese artist Masayoshi Matsumoto.
Incredibly intricate animal and insect sculptures. Matsumoto doesn’t use markers, stickers or any other supplementary material. Ever. His multi-colored animal kingdom is made purely out of blowing and twisting balloons.
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Review of ‘David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet’
An inspired biography. By Scott Beauchamp.
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91-year-old man spends 56 years building his own cathedral alone.
Former monk Justo Gallego Martinez has been constructing his own cathedral in Mejorada del Campo, Spain, since 1961. He had no prior knowledge of architecture and hadn't laid a brick in his life, yet his project currently stands 131ft tall, and acts as a wonderful reminder that faith overcomes everything.
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The Lost Typefaces of W.A. Dwiggins
The pioneering designer created dozens of fonts, only a few of which are still around today. By Cara Giaimo.
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‘I wasn’t cock-a-hoop that I’d fooled the experts’: Britain's master forger tells all
Shaun Greenhalgh has turned his hand to everyone from Leonardo da Vinci to Lowry. He’s been to prison, but has never revealed the whole picture. Until now. By Simon Parkin.
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Toshihiko Hosaka is a master of sand
These incredible sand sculptures are the work of Japanese artist Toshihiko Hosaka. He has been honing his skills for over 20 years and was recently rewarded with 1st prize at the recent Fulong International Sand Sculpture Art Festival in Taiwan earlier this month.
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10+ Nostalgic Portraits Of 1970s Rebel Youth Captured By High School Teacher
Before Joseph Szabo was a world renown photographer, he was a teacher at Malverne High School in Long Island. And on his first days at the job he figured that he's gonna need something special to catch the attention of his pupils. So he brought a camera into class...