Tag Archives: Art
Incredible makeup inspired by art masterpieces
Greenpeace activists scale the British Museum
Creativity
Theo Jansen’s wind-powered “strandbeest” sculptures
Faceswap at the museum
“Art Today, Gone Tomorrow”: street art in Austin
A piece by Banksy
Missing girls in India
This art project by Leena Kejriwal aims to attract attention to girls being kidnapped in India (usually between 9 and 12 years old) to be used in sex trafficking.
Read more about this action here:
Spray-painting the dreams of the homeless
Anonymous Los Angeles street artist Skid Robot wants to “ignite a global revolution of compassion.” The artist brings attention to the issues of homelessness by making Skid Row his canvas and its inhabitants his muses. Best known for his graffiti, Skid Robot gives food, money, and toiletries to homeless people on Skid Row and then includes them in paintings done around their makeshift homes. Skid Robot will sometimes ask his models about their dreams and incorporate that into his pieces. While a painting of a warm bed doesn’t compare with the real thing, he is fund-raising for a documentary about homelessness.
Rainworks: rain-activated Art
Banksy paints graffiti on remains of Gaza home
▶ Banksy paints graffiti on remains of Gaza home – YouTube.
Here is a link to the ironic, fake tourist video Banksy made about Gaza.
Banksy’s “Exit Through The Gift Shop” trailer
Banksy creates street art and mystery in L.A.
Making Art out of dirt
Street artists in San Francisco fight against islamophobia
An anti-Islam group in San Francisco had put up ads on city buses. Street artists have fought racism by covering them up with their art, using Marvel superhero Muslim girl’s image.
T’was The Night Before Christmas by Norman Rockwell (1894 – 1978, American painter)
Fashion photographer takes photos of kids with disabilities
NYC-based photographer Rick Guidotti was in Cincinnati photographing local families of kids living with genetic, physical, and behavioral differences. His non-profit, Positive Exposure, aims to show the “beauty in human diversity.” Film produced by Carrie Cochran, September 2014. Exhibition in Cincinnati, October 2014.
NYC-based photographer Rick Guidotti was in Cincinnati photographing local families of kids living with genetic, physical, and behavioral differences. His non-profit, Positive Exposure, aims to show the "beauty in human diversity." Produced by Carrie Cochran. September 2014
via Former fashion photographer trades supermodels for kids with disabilities on Vimeo.
How painting can transform communities
Click on this link to listen to this great talk about helping poor people change their environment through Art:
Haas&Hahn: How painting can transform communities | Talk Video | TED.com.
Street Art transforms slums in Brazil
Banksy filmed live
▶ Banksy filmed live by The Sunday Times – YouTube.
Here are some extracts from his interview:
“I still paint graffiti because I genuinely think the side of a canal is a more interesting place to have art than a museum. And the fact of the matter is, if you exhibit in a gallery you have to compete against Rembrandt, but if you paint down an alley you only have to compete against a dustbin. I guess it’s the art equivalent of hanging around with fat people to make yourself look thin.”
“I did art at school but I never pursued it any further. I have a large collection of famous art at home, but they’re all fakes. I make them myself. If I like a picture I grab a photo, project it up and paint it. Sometimes I change the colours to fit with the curtains. I do it partly because I’m tight and partly because if the Basquiats and Picassos in the sitting room were real I’d be too scared to ever leave the house.
“I recommend graffiti to anyone, for no other reason than a trip across town is never boring — you’re always on the lookout for new spots and what you can do on them. Likewise, if you ever get bored going round a museum, the interest level ramps up substantially when you smuggle in your own piece under a coat and glue it up somewhere.”
“I don’t make as much money as people think. The commercial galleries that have held exhibitions of my paintings are nothing to do with me. And I certainly don’t see money from the T-shirts, mugs and greeting cards. My lawyer calls me ‘the most infringed artist alive’ and wants me to do something about it. But if you’ve built a reputation on having a casual attitude towards property ownership, it seems a bit bad-mannered to kick off about copyright law.”
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU
Urban fairies and their little doors around town…
In the little American town of Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, exists a secret world that very few people are aware of. If you look carefully around town, you’ll notice itty bitty doors placed on the side of buildings. They are urban fairy houses…
Jonathan B. Wright, children’s books author, started creating little fairy doors in his home in 1993 for his own children (two daughters). Then in 2005, the first little door appeared in a public place in his city, and many others followed.
They can be on the side of a real-size door, in a side street, inside a shop, on any place really (a restaurant, a school, a public library…). Sometimes they are outside, right in the middle of a wall, and sometimes you stumble upon them as you are looking up a fairytale book in the town library!
If you walk around this town you may pass them by without noticing them.
Some people have installed a fairy house door in their own home or garden. We don’t know if any fairies have set up houses there…
You can use this link to find out more about Jonathan Wright and the fairy doors of Ann Arbor: