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The art of origami

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:31:12 +0000

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

Brain surgery turns man into artist… O’RLY!

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:58:07 +0000

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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Weather Photography: True art form, or merely a glorified hobby?

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:07:08 +0000

A few posts ago, a reader asked us whether we considered weather photography to be an art form. Thinking about it for a while, I still cannot be certain, so I’ve decided to open up the discussion to our visitors… Well? Is this art?

Credits, in order of appearance:

WeatherPix.com

In the Clouds Photography

Australian Severe Weather Photos

WeatherScapes.com

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Pencil Art by Jennifer Maestre

admin — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:34:51 +0000

Never seen anything like this before. Very intriguing collection of sculptures made entirely of colored pencils. I guess there are multiple ways for one to use a pencil in creating art.

More at Jennifer Maestre

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Street Sign Art

admin — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:00:36 +0000

Just when I thought I had seen every kind of street art there is, signtologist of Denver comes up with yet another way of decorating trivial public property. It’s catchy, original, and it’s way easier on the eyes than a damn STOP SIGN (especially while driving). Only one question remains… is this truly bona fide art, or not? You be the judge.

via SteetSignArtist.com

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Alive but silent. Living statues contest in Sochi.

admin — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:45:32 +0000

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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The ART of Tennis, an Artonot original

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:49:20 +0000

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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Potato Faces

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:23:31 +0000

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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Arte Povera at the Tate

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:17:54 +0000

To me, this is yet another sign that the artists of our age are running all out of ideas. But, there ARE many vacant spaces in the various museums that need to be filled somehow…

“simple and mundane materials as works of art”

O’RLY! Anyone else out there think that this is some sort of a trap/trick/prank/scam?

srsly… are these guys for REAL? What? Got your OWN opinion?

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