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A sea worm is going to help a child build a sand castle
Mike Giordana
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Underwater photos
Among the masters of underwater photography, one cannot miss the Japanese photographer Tomohide Ikeya. Lately, the theme of water has been more and more present in his work.
According to the photographer:
It is only in water that the difference between life and death, between control and its loss, can be seen so clearly...
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Mexican artist Carmen Carpena presented her new work
This work caused a flurry of comments and disputes about Carmen's technique. Some found it original, others wrote that it is nonsense and their children draw better!
In this art Carpena revealed the essence of her approach - she reinterprets the visual chaos that she herself creates, turning it into real art.
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The contemporary artist from Australia is Werner Bronckhorst
Werner made it to the top because of his signature style that he came up with himself!
His thing is the combination of abstract sculptural backgrounds with miniature and super realistic
images.
Not only is the work visually gorgeous, you can imagine how much painstaking work it is overall!
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Exquisite decay
American artist Kathleen Ryan makes giant sculptures of rotting fruit out of gemstones.
To make rotting fruit, Ryan observes and is inspired by the actual rotting process. She finds mold to be very aesthetically pleasing. So the parts of her “fruit” that the mold hasn't affected, Kathleen Ryan makes out of cheap glass beads.
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The non-destructive vandal
Rich McCore is a photographer who has been called a “non-destructive vandal.” Using his camera and paper cut out figures, he creates the illusion of artificial perspective.
The Londoner's hobby, which at first was seen as a hobby, has already brought him viral popularity in a year. Now Rich travels the world, and the number of his followers in social networks is approaching half a million.
He has worked with some of the world's biggest brands, including Microsoft, Red Bull and PUMA!
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Sculptures made of real bread
Unusual lamps from Japanese artist Yukiko Morita are made of real bread.
Yukiko was inspired to create these lamps by her work in a bakery, her sincere love of baking and her regret that a huge amount of bread is simply thrown away when it expires!
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The Last Supper
Artist Zeng Fanzhi from China has created his own version of the legendary “Last Supper”.
The painting shows 13 characters sitting at a long table, each of them wearing a mask. The table is covered with snow-white tablecloth, pieces of ripe watermelon are scattered on it, scrolls with Chinese calligraphy and slogans hang on the walls.
The painting is a symbol of China's movement towards capitalism. At the Sotheby's auction, the painting was sold for 23 million dollars. The collector who bought the lot, wished to remain anonymous!
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Paintings with wine
Ren Taotao is an artist who is known for her original art technique. She paints all her works with watercolors and as you have already understood red wine.
In addition, Ren sometimes uses even more unconventional materials in her paintings. For example, lipstick and perfume!
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Real Surrealism
Mahir Ates is a talented Turkish artist who works in a surrealistic manner, but with a high degree of realism imprinted on his works.
It is hard to believe that he once studied chemistry and worked as an engineer for several years before finally deciding to dedicate his life to painting!
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Dancing in paintings
Contemporary artist Maria Amaral was born in 1950, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
María Amaral loves to paint the human body in motion... whether it be love caresses, languid tango, boxing or bullfighting, always with the same strong sense of aesthetics - all subjects obey the laws of choreography.
Maria's paintings are executed on a large scale, sometimes in a format comparable to the height of a person. According to the artist it allows you to better understand the beauty of movement, how to enter the picture and merge with the dancers!
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The most terrifying painting of the Middle Ages "Dead Lovers"
The painting was painted in the 15th century. The name of the artist has not survived, in manner today it is attributed to an anonymous man nicknamed the Master of Ulm.
It strikes with its unusual approach to the nude body: what should be supposed to excite and delight the eye, here turned into a real horror.
Since the subjects are not young handsome men, but shriveled old men, and it seems that they are already being devoured by grave worms (despite the quite lively expression of their eyes).
For us, such a depiction of a woman and a man is usually associated with Adam and Eve - and traditionally such paintings serve to glorify human beauty. But not in the case of our Dead Lovers, which contrasts with the template in an even more shocking way.
The idea behind this medieval allegorical painting was to remind whoever looked at it: life is decay. We are all going to die, and soon enough.
The viewer, looking at this ugliness, was supposed to meditate on the fact that everything earthly is vanity, vanity of vanities. Including the body, youth, health.
The horror of the picture is increased by the fact that the eyes of the characters are still burning with reason, but their bodies are already being eaten by insects, snakes and worms.
The toothless woman's dried-up breasts hang down in the most pathetic way, and a huge toad - a symbol of nastiness and abomination - sits on her bosom.
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England's most mystical picture
Almost 39 years ago, in the mid-80's, in England there was a series of unexplained fires, associated with various factors and circumstances, accompanied by human casualties. As it turned out later, all tragic events were united by one thing - in all cases in the premises there was a reproduction of one of the paintings by Giovanni Bragolin, which remained untouched by fire.
The attention of the British to the mysterious fact attracted a fireman from Yorkshire named Peter Hall, in his interview reported that throughout the North of England fire brigades find on the sites of fires untouched by fire copies of paintings Bragolina. Unheard of panic gripped the country. Frightened to death ordinary people firmly decided: “offended and angry at the whole world kids take revenge on this soulless, cruel society. It was not for nothing that after each fire, among the embers they found a portrait of a crying baby unharmed and unharmed, with not even a trace of soot on it.
In November 1985, the editorial staff of The Sun decided to organize a mass demonstration burning of the images of the crying baby collected from the citizens, with the involvement of television. The action was held on a vacant lot outside the city, where a huge bonfire was set up, in which all the remaining copies were burned.
After the act of burning, the British froze in anticipation of something catastrophic. However, days, weeks, years passed, and there were no more mass fires. “Crying Boy”, having burned in the fire, stopped taking revenge on people. With the passage of time, the gruesome story began to be forgotten. The only things left are old newspaper folders, which remind us of it to this day.
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Erotic Surrealism
Joyce Lee has become one of the most prolific artists on social media. Portraits, different themes, from nudes to surreal fish, have garnered hundreds of thousands of likes on her page.
Lee now has such a strong fan base based on social media that she has become one of the most successfully marketed artists!
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Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945)
Well-known German artist. Kollwitz was active in politics and social activism, advocating women's rights and pacifism.
During World War I, her son died and this event had a profound impact on her life and work.
Her work was almost consumed by the theme of death, yet she continued to live a vibrant, full life.
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3D arts
Illustrator and designer Tang Zixi has fun in his spare time creating gorgeous 3D artworks of his favorite cartoon characters - Jerry from “Tom and Jerry” and Patrick from “SpongeBob SquarePants.”
At first he painted them wherever he saw an opportunity, but a little later Zixi started being invited by parents of toddlers to paint their children's rooms!
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A sculpture created in 2016 by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.
An example of satirical party art, it is a fully functioning toilet bowl made of 18 carat solid gold!
In September 2019, the toilet bowl was put on display at Blenheim Palace in the UK, from where it was stolen. The suspects were apprehended, the $2.6 million dollar toilet bowl was never recovered.
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