Apr 12
I love the coarse large format paintings of cities by Jeremy Mann. I like to get lost in his everyday scenes and admire the gritty brushstrokes that reveal a perfect command of light, texture, and color.
Mar 23
A lot of people take paintings that they find at thrift stores and add stuff to them. Some people even add Star Wars themes to these paintings, but Dave Vancook has a great eye for it.
Boba Fett as a matador, facing off against a raging bull? Greedo in Scottish attire, riding a pony? How about an Endor Scout trooper having lunch at a restaurant with his speeder bike parked in front? Check. Check. And check. That is just some of Dave’s fantastically geeky work.
I would love to hang these up in my home. I especially like the Boba Fett one. It’s classy and geeky.
[via Boing Boing]
Feb 26
The identification of fakes and forgeries is a basic issue that has always raised controversy. This is unsurprising, of course–the enormous sums garnered by top paintings would turn to dust as soon as a question as to their authenticity arose.
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Feb 20
I never knew there was such a thin line between being impressive and being disgusting but artist Ani K is toeing it. Or to be more accurate, tongue-ing it. That’s because instead of using a paintbrush to paint, Ani K uses his tongue to create his artwork. He basically licks paint and then licks the canvas. He even uses his tongue to mix colors together. Ani K has made over a 1,000 paintings like this. Art is crazy.
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Feb 02
Artist Adam Lister creates awesome watercolor paintings of iconic pop culture figures using rudimentary block shapes. The most meta of his images has to be the watercolor of Bob Ross – though I’m having a hard time making out any happy little trees.
Despite their apparent simplicity, each image clearly conveys its subjects, while giving them a sort of 16-bit pixelated sensibility to them. He’s done versions of Darth Vader, Superman, Boba Fett, Batman and Robin, Iron Man, and even Forrest Gump. But my personal favorite is Kirk and Spock:
You can find more of Adam’s pieces over on his website – where you can get limited-edition 5×7 Giclee prints of many of his images. He’s even got a special running through today (2/2/14) where you can grab them for just $30(USD). And be sure to check out his gallery of original paintings here.
[via Geek Art]
Dec 02
Great victories in intelligence are, by definition, usually destined to remain secret. But inside its headquarters in Virginia, the CIA keeps its own little oil-and-canvas shrine: 16 pieces of art commemorating important moments in intelligence history.
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Nov 19
Holy wow this is impressive. Artist Anders Ramsell animated Blade Runner by painting 12,597 different water color paintings and stringing them together into beautifully fluid sequences. It’s incredible, you feel like you’re watching Blade Runner, you get to hear Harrison Ford and follow the story but you’re seeing it like never before—in moving art.
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Nov 05
Not all of us can stand and stare at artwork and pretend to be impressed and then stare again and then focus in on how the brushstrokes add up to the emotion of what the artist was feeling during his struggle when his father did not approve of his calling. Some of us want more fun when it comes to art. This hilarious animation of famous paintings are that fun.
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Nov 04
Police has found what’s probably the biggest stash of stolen art ever by pure chance: 1,500 paintings valued at roughly $1.35 billion hidden by Cornelius Gurlitt, an 80-year-old man in this apartment in Munich. Of course, the art was stolen by the damn Nazis.
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Oct 21
At first glance, The Beautiful Future—a series of paintings made in Pyongyang, North Korea—looks like standard propaganda fare: Happy citizens, lush farmlands, and bustling industry. Except something’s amiss: In the background of each painting stands an iconic piece of Beijing architecture—from the CCTV building to the Olympic Water Cube.
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