Smear Campaign: Guerrilla Artist Remixes Adverts with Acid
Mutating works of public advertising with corrosive acid, this cunning urban interventionist hijacks posters from bus stops and subway stations, then adds his own message into the ...
Tag: painting
Animating Van Gogh: World’s First Fully-Painted Feature Film
It is a fantastic endeavor and nearly finished - a movie made up of 56,800 stop-motion paintings, all presented in the style and told by the characters of the tale's protagonist: Vincent van ...
Invisible Skyway: Urban Optical Illusions Conceal & Distort
New Zealand artist, illusionist and urbanist Mark Hewson has a good many tricks up his sleeve involving spatial deception, convincing citizens there is less (or more) to their city than can ...
Edgy Art: Fore-Edge Paintings Hidden in Historical Books
Invisible at a glance, artists have long hidden fore-edge artwork in plain sight, resulting in works that are sometimes first spotted decades or even centuries after their creation. What looks ...
Multi-Building Murals: Repainting a 100-Home Neighborhood
Previous efforts of Favela Painting transformed 34 buildings in Rio de Janeiro via huge rainbow-colored community mural, creating jobs and beautifying an area often feared by outsiders. This time ...
From Abstract to Actual: Unrealistic Art Models Made Real
Some of the world's greatest abstract artists have created portraits of humans that, while inspired by the human form, have completely dispensed with any actual human's natural ...
Painting Robot Plans Each Stroke Of Its Own Masterpieces
If you think humans in creative professions aren't in danger of someday being replaced by robots, which ostensibly don't possess the ability to produce real art, you're going to want to watch ...
Tag Clouds & More: Geek Street Artist Remakes Messy Graffiti
To the uninitiated, used to seeing it but not to reading it, graffiti scrawl can seem illegible. In a play on both tagging and technology, this artist turns traditional tags into computer-style ...
NeoLucida: Optical Drawing Tool Lets You Trace Real Life
Have you ever wondered how 19th century artists were able to produce such incredibly realistic drawings? It isn't just because they were unusually talented, though it's hard to argue that they ...
Different Strokes: Strange Paintbrushes Promote Creativity
When something evolves to have such a long history as the art of painting, it falls on out-of-the-box thinkers to question the most basic elements of creation: tools. The designers ...
