Tricking the Eye: Phenomenal 3D Art
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe art world is full of surprising and unexpected styles, but there have always been some clear separations. Paintings, drawing, and photographs stay on the two-dimensional canvas, while sculptures exist in 3-D. Those boundaries are difficult to cross, unless you are Ramon Bruin, a Dutch artist who excels at blurring the lines between reality, art, and the physical boundaries of a 2-D world.
We think of flowers as some of the most delicate creations in nature. We think of bone as hard and durable. Japanese artist Hideki Tokushige disagrees with that traditional separation, and in his spellbinding Bone Flowers (Honebana), he shows that artistic brilliance can turn flowers into stone and bone into silk.
In the HBO drama series, "The Newsroom," Jane Fonda plays the recurring role of Leona Lansing, the self-important CEO of the TV news show, Atlantis Cable News (ACN).
Fonda views the fictional network’s influence as falling "somewhere
between Ted Turner (her ex-husband) and Rupert Murdoch." Playing against
type and her real-life liberal bias, Lansing is a staunch Republican
who feels the need to constantly remind her news team staff headed up by
Will McAvoy (played by Jeff Daniels) . . .