A Separate Reality: Dark Digital Art by Alex Andreyev
Street lights that look like serpents about to strike. Strange, floating platforms for homes and parks hovering above the clouds. Pet spiders the size of dogs. Surreal battle scenes in ...
Category: Art
Urban art is at the heart of WebUrbanist – the drawings, images, photos and sculptures that inspire us in part because they are open to the public. From installation artworks to street graffiti and everything in between, here is our extensive collection of urban street art gathered from around the world and representing both traditional techniques and innovative approaches by old and new street artists alike.
Magical Music: 5 of the World’s Weirdest Instruments
Most music lovers can agree that music doesn't always follow the rules. Some of the most beautiful melodies have come from artists who chose to do their own thing despite conventional wisdom. The ...
Winter Wonderland: 12 Awe Inspiring Snow Sculpture Themes
We know winter is upon us when that first snowstorm hits; phone trees are initiated, and jubilant children rush outdoors bundled up into balls of jacket eager to make a snow man. As in any ...
Urban Camouflage: Liu Bolin, The Invisible Man
In a world of Photoshop and special effects, artistic craft wrought by hand is getting harder to come by. But Liu Bolin doesn’t need any fancy technology to produce the jaw-dropping illusion of ...
Trick of the Eye: 13 Delightfully Deceptive Works of Art
Hyper-realistic paintings and drawings can make us pause and wonder whether they're real, but there's another, even more deceptive, form of super-realistic art that's been in use since ancient ...
The Surreal & Colorful World of Artist Marco Escobedo
Illustrator and graphic designer Marco Escobedo’s work focuses on the surreal and fantastic, using high contrast and richly saturated colors to create scenes and characters that look like they ...
3D-Sculpted Pictures: Innovative Photography Sculptures
It could be said that the goal of modern art is to surprise viewers and force them to stretch their understanding of "art." By using completely new methods and/or materials, artists cause us to ...
Stunning Stereoviews: Historical Photos Show Past in 3D
The opportunity to catch a glimpse at life in a long-ago era in 3D is rare indeed, but thanks to the stereoviews taken by photographer T. Enami, Meiji Japan in the early 1900s momentarily appears ...
Future Sounds Like This: 10 Odd Modern Musical Instruments
The study of musical instruments ('organology' - no, really) is the study of the human condition. Every culture is defined by its own distinctive set of trills, whistles, parps, honks and beats, ...
Gargoyles: From Gothic Garglers to Grotesque Guardians
If the words "gargle" and "gargoyle" sound similar that's no coincidence, but from their original function as decorative downspouts gargoyles have evolved into whimsically sculptured, cathedral ...
