Wet Look: 12 (More) Cool Creative Water Tanks & Towers
Due to their sizes and shapes, water tanks and towers lend themselves to artistic embellishment as these dozen creative examples refreshingly illustrate. A waterpark? In the middle of ...
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.
Unnatural Wonders: Magical Surrealist Artwork Worthy of Dalí & Escher
In the same magic-realist vein as artistic giants like Salvador Dalí, M.C. Escher and Renê Margritte, Rob Gonsalves crafts elaborate and interconnected scenes that shift subtly to form ...
Design in Stitches: 45 Artistic Embroidered & Cross-Stitched Creations
This is definitely not your grandmother’s embroidery. It’s stitched into the helmets of soldiers, onto car doors and fences, producing cats that pop out of shirt pockets and portraits so ...
Creative Crosswalks: Artist Adds Color to Brighten Crossings for Students
Part art project and part urban safety experiment, this series of Funnycross installations in Madrid have been positioned outside a cross section of city schools. Designed by Bulgarian ...
Painting with Paper: Quilled Portraits Reveal the Expressiveness of Aging
Expanding upon a previous body of work that’s more graphic in nature, paper artist Yulia Brodskaya presents a new portrait series capturing the expressive qualities of aging faces in vibrant ...
Codex Silenda: Solve Puzzles to Turn Pages in this Crafty Wooden Book
Unlike The Maze and other classic puzzle books, the Codex Silenda brooks no cheating, forcing readers to solve elaborate puzzles on each page before proceeding to the next. Somewhere ...
Wheels of Steel: Full-Sized Art Cars Made of Nothing But Scrap Metal
Their body panels consist of a lacework of metal gears, their windshields no more than mesh, their seats steel and the spaces under their hoods hollow, but these life-sized car sculptures still ...
Scratching the Surface: Expressive Portraits Chip Away at City Walls
Set in neglected parts of the city, scratched into deteriorating surfaces, expressive portraits loom large, often created with nothing more than a chisel. Alexandre Farto, better known as Vhils, ...
Forest of Resonating Lamps: Brilliant Interactive Illuminated Installation
Dangling from a darkened ceiling like strange bioluminescent blooms, hundreds of high-tech lamps respond to the movements of people in the room, glowing in a particular color that resonates ...
Spellbinding Visuals: Magical Book Artwork Tells Surrealistic Stories
A series of book-centric illustrations (now collected into one big 'book of books') by Seoul artist Jungho Lee explores realms of impossibility through the deconstruction and re-imagining of ...
