A great artist can make beauty out of any medium, no matter how limited. 97-year-old Hal Lasko embodies this concept. Instead of painting with dozens of expensive brushes or high-end software suites, Lasko uses a tool most of us have used and abandoned years ago—Microsoft Paint from Windows 95.
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It can be difficult to know what’s real and what’s fake when it comes to digital art these days. But don’t torture yourself worrying about it now: Here are some of the most photorealistic 3D renderings on the web. Each one is completely synthetic; every single detail generated by madly talented 3D artists. Enjoy.
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These striking images might only just look like faces—but that’s OK, because they’re made up of images acquired by the Hubble space telescope.
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Well, to consider this anything other than fantastic is to be wrong. Photographer Karsten Wegener teamed up with designer Silke Baltruschat and food stylist Raik Holst to create ‘Sausage in Art’, art which recreates famous paintings by using… deli meats, sausages, eggs, pickles and more. It might not look as good as the original, but it’s infinitely more tasty (and more funny).
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Like the awesome moving pictures in Harry Potter and the silliness of six second Vines, this video shows what art by Van Gogh would look like if the paintings he created could move. That is, how the candles would flicker, how the shadows would be cast, how the Sun would rise, how people would move, how the smoke would blow, how the ocean would look and so much more. It’s fantastic.
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We’re used to participating in Christie’s auctions as mere spectators, gawking at items like the Maharaja of Patiala’s banqueting service or the original Apple 1. But this week, Christie’s is offering up a collection of National Geographic’s most iconic shots—and they’re surprisingly affordable.
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M.C. Escher’s art is pretty mindblowing. It always featured impossible staircases that go up or down forever depending on how your eyes see it. Donkey Kong is pretty amazing too, but for entirely different reasons that only a video game nerd can appreciate.
Put them both together and you have yourself an amazing and crazy game where the barrels can roll up and down to infinity and Jumpman will never get the girl. Well, that’s not exactly what happens here, but it is still pretty amazing to watch.
Artist Chris Carlson replicated Escher’s staircase and combined it with Donkey Kong. And even though we don’t get a full animated level, this art is amazing and makes you appreciate Escher all the more as you watch the barrel do the impossible.
[via Geekosystem]
Sometimes photographers amaze us with their ability to uniquely reflect the world around us and get a look at it from a different angle. Other times, they depict images so disgusting or banal that it’s impossible to understand why so many consider their photographs masterpieces. The art market is inscrutable, especially when it comes to photography. The following ten photos, ranked by worth, sold for millions of dollars at auctions over the past few years.
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Normally, a gallery’s white walls are meant to foreground the art. In the case of Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira‘s latest sculpture, Baitogogo, they are the art.
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iOS has filters and drawing apps up the wazoo, so it can be hard to see the point of new ones. But Isometric allows you to create and manipulate designs and optical illusions that are weirdly compelling. It’s something about starting from a blank screen and building such a dimensional pattern.
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