Mirage Muralist: Street Artist Bends Surfaces Using Illusion
With works often requiring second looks or sanity checks, artist Pejac bends reality in his use of paint and other materials to create sublime art from walls, streets, sidewalks and ...
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Forging Fun, Not Profit: Master Copycat Fakes Out 50+ Museums
Mark Landis is a US artist and actor of extraordinary ability, having spent decades faking various identities and committing a kind of faux philanthropy, having donated copied artworks he creates ...
City-Sized Artwork: Huge Building Mural Spans 99 Structures
In his most ambitious and large-scale work to date, Felice Varini has created a perspectival piece that wraps around the entire historic core of Hasselt, Belgium, and can only be fully seen from ...
Just Add Monsters: Chris McMahon’s Modified Thrift Store Art
Artist Chris McMahon looks at cheap thrift store landscape paintings and sees something missing. Then he paints in the hidden monsters for all to enjoy. McMahon first began buying thrift ...
Spinning Canvas: Color & Gravity Create Brush-Free Paintings
Calculation meets chaos in the work of Amy Shackleton, a painter who works without brushes to create masterful yet whimsical urban and natural landscapes. Her dynamic paintings are the ...
Gritty City: Dark Oils Capture Essence of Bustling Urbanity
Busy shipyards, city streets, rain-streaked skyscrapers and other iconic staples of cities come alive in this portfolio of shadowy oil paintings. Valerio D’Ospina captures ...
High-Speed Art: Murals Spray-Painted for Train Passengers
Made to been seen at high speeds, these colorful patterns intentionally form a sequential whole when experienced by commuters in adjacent railway cars. Katharina Grosse (with photos ...
Spinning Zen: Real-Time Patterns Painted on a Potter’s Wheel
Like a hypnotist's pendulum, this fifteen minute visual experience will charm you with its rich variety of mesmerizing patterns, all drawn by hand before your eyes. An amazingly meditative ...
Sand Paintings: Temporary Street Art Will Blow (You) Away
After 650 such works, it is perhaps no wonder that this artist generates each new sand painting spontaneously on the spot, letting the pattern evolve as he pours him efforts (and handfuls of ...
Extreme Exposures: Light Landscapes Take Hours to Shoot
Most light photographers focus on making a shape in the foreground in a matter of seconds, then setting it against a dark static backdrop - this artist often animates every inch of the ...
