Ariel the mermaid takes on a cheeky statue of a little boy who piddles in her pond. Summoning her father, the king, and Sebastian the crab, Arial goes to extreme lengths to stop the widdling work of art from polluting the water. (This is a GIF animation and may take a few moments to load.)
Optical illusions are art works, photographs and designs that trick the mind into seeing something that isn’t actually there, or into not seeing something that is right in front of you. Some illusions rely on the brain’s tendency to jump to conclusions, while others reveal how different people think. It’s always interesting to look at […]
Ray Caesar was born in London, England in 1958. He describes his childhood art as “atypical and aberrant” as it was unlike the bright pop art of the 60s and 70s. Drawing inspiration from Classical, Baroque and Romantic era paintings, Caesar creates fantasy scenes that include innocent young girls, sensual young women or ageless divas. […]
David Walker is a London-based artist who creates explosively colorful portraits of people he’s never met. Each of his art works features a face that the artist found in a book, magazine or photograph. Walker says that the anonymity of his subjects allows the viewer to create their own background story for the person in […]
The German art duo Herakut is made up of two German artists, Jamin and Falk who also go by the names Hera and Akut. The pair combines their talents and their love of both street art and fine art to create beautiful, emotive paintings that bring graffiti art into art galleries in the form of […]
Nude art model Clelia Rinaldi poses for ten artists who sketch her from specific vantage points in the room. Combining their sketches into a stop motion animation allows viewer’s a unique vantage point of the artist’s model; we can see her from every angle in the room and yet the video’s view remains stationary. The […]
A collection of inspirational picture quotes and beautiful pictures for March 2013.
Svenja Jödicke was born in Berlin, Germany and grew up in a large, creative family. Although art had always played an improtant role in her life, it was only in 2012 that she turned to art professionally. Not only did painting become a profession for Svenja, it became a way for her to express her […]
Japanese artist Yosuke Ueno’s painting are an interesting blend of fantasy, surrealistic styling and cartoon elements. Although his characters are all his own original designs, their cartoon styling has been around for nearly a century. His pop surrealism paintings have an innocent appeal about them, even when darker symbolism appears in the art work in […]
“The Sneetches” is a children’s story book that was written and published by world renowned author Dr Seuss. Like all of Seuss’s stories, The Sneetches begins as a nonsense poem but ends with a poignant moral. This animated version of the tale tells the story of the Sneetches on the beaches with stars on thars, […]