Dish Nyet Work: Painted Russian Satellite Dishes
A Russian retiree's beautifully painted satellite dishes do double-duty as works of art and functioning receivers for the orbiting descendants of Sputnik. Love of Satellite Russia knows ...
Tag: painting
Out of Focus: Blurred Street Scenes Capture Cities as Cinematic Moments
Like stills from some rainy noir film, these paintings are deceptively realistic in part due to their abstraction -- unresolved details look like a trick of the lens rather than the work of a ...
Canned Heat: 12 Folk Art Painted Residential Propane Tanks
Those popular home propane tanks that look like colossal cold capsules or dry-docked mini subs can be unusual showcases for unique folk art creations. Ranging in capacity from 250 gallons ...
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, ...
Graffiti by Drone: Team of Spray-Painting UAVs to Make Huge Mural in Berlin
Taking to the skies in Berlin, a set of color-coded drones aims to make the biggest spray-painted mural ever made (at least by robots) using unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with programmed ...
Still Life with Smoke Bombs: Artist Live-Paints Berkeley Protest Violence
This past Saturday, Trump supporters and counter-protesters from the left clashed violently in liberal Berkeley, all while one intrepid street painter captured the scene live on canvas. ...
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 ...
Artist Socks Series: Wear Pairs of Figures from Famous Paintings
Simple stripes, colors and patterns are all that is visible when you are wearing shoes, but kick them off and you can show off famous figures from classic paintings. They may not be fit for ...
Please Touch the Art: Tactile 3D Portraits Let the Blind See Themselves
“My nose isn’t that big!” protests portrait subject George Wurtzel as he runs his hands over his own image, rendered in paint on thousands of screws raised from a wooden board in a relief ...
Gritty Cities: Oil Painter Captures Cityscapes at Dusk & Dawn
Artist Jeremy Mann works in early in the day or evening, and it shows in the dark, smudged and ultimately riveting way in which he captures streetscapes of major cities from New York to San ...
