Takeo Takei was born in Suwa, Japan in 1894. In 1921 the young Takei got married and turned to his art in order to support his family, illustrating a children’s magazine with his stylized, attractive drawings. Throughout the course of his career, Takei produced hundreds of illustrations for magazines, posters and children’s books. This gallery […]
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 […]
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 […]
A collection of inspirational picture quotes and beautiful pictures for March 2013.
Tim Shumate was born in 1982 and currently lives in Chicago, USA. Shumate works in a number of different art mediums like pencil, paint and digital art programs, creating art works that are heavily influenced by cartoons, fantasy and fairy tales. Some art works are inspired by classic comic books while others appear to have […]
Shann Larsson was born in 1987 and raised in Germany, Sweden, Indonesia and Hong Kong. The childhood nomad currently lives and works in Hong Kong, creating mixed media art works with photo manipulation and paint to create art works that combine the real and imagined worlds. Larsson says her paintings are inspired by emotions and […]
Bonsoir Paris is an art duo who experiment with a variety of art mediums. Turning their hands and creative talents to wood sculptures, the artistic pair created Duramen, a series of wood sculptures that depicts melting picture frames. Each piece is a tactile surrealistic delight. In reality, wood doesn’t melt, it simply burns and turns to […]
Lebensader is German animation that was written, designed, directed and animated by Angela Steffen. The video tells the story of a little girl with a vivid imagination finding a whole world hidden within a single tree leaf. Steffen’s bold, clear illustration style comes to life in this beautiful animation. Characters morph into one another, racing […]
INTI is a graffiti artist from Santiago, Chile. His enormous street art paintings are giving the world of graffiti art a new appeal; turning an entire side of a building into a large scale art work brings fine art out of the galleries and into the streets. Inti’s graffiti paintings don’t resemble the messy scrawls […]
Barbara Swingaling is an artist living in the Netherlands. Working from the body art shop Classic Ink and Mods in Amsterdam, Swingaling creates tattoos with an intriguing twist; although the tattoo is permanent, the designs are based on those traditionally used in henna tattoos, a non-permanent form of body art. Many of Swingaling’s paisley tattoo […]