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Expect new twists on old traditions as new tools and unique techniques allow artists to draw, paint and illustrate in radically different ways. From coffee-cup pen artists to people who paint whole rooms with colored markers, here are some seriously innovative creatives. The digital age has put on dramatic new spin on the the world of art, from three-dimensional realism to fresh forms of abstraction. Here you will find some of the most creative and innovative forms of computer-generated expression and futuristic artistic representation.

It’s All in Your Head: 17 Optical Illusions Prove You Can’t Trust Your Brain

If there's one thing all these illusions can show you, it's that you can't trust your own brain. It'll blot out peripheral colors right before your eyes to help you focus on a fixed point, turn ...

Urban Explorers Scuba Dive Through an Abandoned Submerged Soviet Prison Camp

How eerie must it be to swim past submerged lamp posts, barbed wire and other remnants of an old Soviet prison while scuba diving in a former quarry? The setting is dangerous; visitors might ...

Algorithmic Art: Dynamic Display ‘Paints’ Surreal Scenes & Melting Cityscapes

Abstracting views of the city, this huge installation uses computer algorithms to deform local everyday footage on a massive 14-by-23-foot display canvas. Ordinary wall art can get old, ...

Jobs that Don’t Exist Yet: Art Based on World Economic Forum Predictions

The automation of many of our jobs - even those that have long seemed safe - is fully inevitable at this point. One study predicts that about 38 percent of American jobs will be at high risk of ...

Tied Up in Knots: 13 Truly Twisted Towers, Buildings & Staircases

Bridges, buildings, staircases and pavilions twist and turn around themselves, forming into neat knots or chaotic tangles in these 13 wildly weaving creations. There's often a method to this ...

Needle, Thread and Flesh: Artist Hand-Sews Scenes Right Into His Palm

With his own skin as his canvas and needles as his tools, artist David Cata demands a pound of flesh from himself in return for his creative expression. That is to say, each individual piece ...

Fractal Cities: Drawings of Urban Architecture Seem to Go On & On Forever

The deeper you look into the incredibly detailed drawings of artist Benjamin Sack, the more the cities depicted seem to multiply, as if you could travel through his fractal cities forever and ...

Shipping Shapes: Perspective Drawing Lines Form Containerized Landscapes

Anyone who has seen stacks of shipping containers and the huge cranes that move them at big ports knows they can make for a marvelous sight, but what happens when you overlay those rigid ...

Out of Focus: Classic Works of Art Reimagined in Abstract Pixelated Form

Some centuries-old works of art are so imprinted upon the collective consciousness, our brains recognize them even when they’re blurred, disguised, abstracted or otherwise remixed. You could ...

Art of Parenting: Father Frames Six-Year-Old’s Uncommissioned Wall Drawing

Kids will be kids, and sometimes they will surprise you by doing things like drawing on the walls, leaving parents with an array of options for how to respond. Dr. Eric Masicotte is a ...

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