Art o' Not – You're the Critic!

Art or craft? Or something entirely different?

Pegasus

Fat Pot

Phoenix

Land Shark

Devil

Crane

T Rex

credits listed in order of appearance:

Robert J. Lang Origami

Joseph Wu Origami

Eric’s Origami Page

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Crop circle making has got to be some of the weirdest art in the world. But art it is, at least in our opinion. Today, the Telegraph ran a story about the first ever jellyfish-looking crop circle found in Oxfordshire, England, seen below. Pretty amazing, wouldn’t you agree?

This one looks like some sort of fractal pattern:

This crop circle is from Switzerland:

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Saw this story on the Daily Mail today. This one really begs the question… Art or Not? You can judge the painting below for yourself, while I go dig up the name of Alan Brown’s surgeon, you know… just in case.

Until the stroke, Alan was unable to draw or paint, and the best he could manage was a simple 2D stickman.

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Alan, who is divorced, said: ‘I was out of the danger zone but still in intensive care and a nurse came up to me and said I looked bored and suggested I start drawing. ‘She gave me a pencil and some paper and photograph of her dog which I copied almost perfectly.

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‘I had never even set foot in an art gallery, let alone tried creating my own art work.’

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‘While most of the effects involve a loss of functioning, in some cases people have been known to acquire or discover new skills, although the exact reason for this is not fully understood.’

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via Mail Online

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Got art? These people think they do. When a statue is not really a statue but a decorated human being… is that still art? Am I asking stupid questions?

A living statues contest was held in the Russian city of Sochi earlier this month. Looks pretty interesting. What amazes me most here is that I really can’t tell that these exhibits are all living, breathing people. Perhaps you could better discern their humanity if you saw the show in person… or maybe it’s just a Russian thing

Title reads: Tired Violinist

This guy is pretending to be A.S. Pushkin, the great Russian writer

Title reads: After the Rain

More pics from the show available at English Russia blog

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an artist is you! or at least that seems to be the general consensus these days…

Inspired by all of the wannabe artists we’ve been discussing on the blog so far, I’ve decided to give this “creativity” thing a try myself, and here are the fruits of today’s labor. It’s amazing what you can accomplish on the tennis court, and I’m not just talking about serving some aces. With a few bum balls, nets, fences, and rackets as my tools, I am beginning my artistic career as a tennis ball sculptor!

I swear, some poor, hopeless, good for nothing (else) art student will look at this blog, get “inspired” and glue together a giant tennis ball sculpture, made from like a million balls. Then, some art “critic” will give it a raving review, and viola, you have yourself a new alternative arts movement… Thus, some bored idiot could change the course of art history, a little…

SO WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK? AM I AN ARTIST YET???

This one reminds me of a frog:

This is a spaceship:

A secret message hides in the fence, can you guess what it is???!!!

Tennis Ball Sculpture, No glue required!

My tennis ball artistry probably has Michelangelo spinning in his grave… but then again, so does most modern painting, architecture, and sculpture.

Ok, I’m done here for now.

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Ginou Choueiri’s potato portraiture has been mentioned on several art blogs already, but we thought we’d cover it here as well since the topic fits so well within our alternative arts theme. The artist’s justification for defacing (pun intended) the vegetables is as follows:

I chose the potato to portray the human face due to it’s many striking parallels.  Not only is their skin porous like ours but they also come in different colors, shapes and sizes.  Potato heads grow, sprout, age, then decay… but they refuse to go without a trace.

But what does our reader think? Is this art, or not?

via Ginou Choueiri

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We’ve got some more artonot to discuss today. What do ya’ll think of this guy’s work? He uses mirrors in various climates and geographical locations to demonstrate something I can’t quite grasp… But are his little setups truly artistic? He also uses colored sticks to create some weird illusions in various landscapes, and those things really freak me out!

via English Russia

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I saw this on 4chan a few minutes ago and, honestly, it made me lol. Perhaps a future post about ART SCHOOL and all the reasons NOT to go there is in order

!!! ^^^ AWESOME ^^^ !!!

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Walk down the right back alley in Ann Arbor, and you WILL shit brix!

Been living in this college town for the past 4 years, and now that school is out and there are no classes to worry about, I am beginning to realize that I may have missed out on seeing the best of this tiny town during my time here. The real local bars and eateries that college kids rarely hear of, much less wander into, the best kept secrets in underground music venues, and of course, the graffiti. Just a few hours ago, on my way to the train station, I wandered down an alleyway I must have passed by dozens of times while a student. Yet the thought of exploring this tiny little enclave never crossed my mind before. Well, today I did it, and below are some of the products of my breathtaking detour.

Would you like to share some cool art (or not) from your college town or perhaps your hometown?

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