LA-based mixed media artist Brooks Shane Salzwedel assembles beautiful, haunting landscapes out of layers of graphite, tape, and resin. His bridges, forests, and oil rigs have a surreal, misty three-dimensional feel.
More sequels than a horror movie
The Scream is perhaps in the top five most well-known artworks in history. What’s less well-known is that the artist Edvard Munch painted four different copies of the masterpiece.
The second in this row is up for auction at Sothesby’s for the first time ever next week. The pre-auction price is $80 million - the highest pre-sale figure the prestigious auction house has ever set.
And another thing: the central character in the painting isn’t actually screaming. Inscribed on the frame of the work on sale is a description written by Munch of the work:
I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.
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Russian designer Tatiana Plakhova layers complex networks of dots and lines with vibrant pictures of nature and wildlife to draw out the structures and chaos they have in common.
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Sculptures popping out of paintings
Shintaro Ohata’s Polaris is about nostalgia and childhood and finding a home in alien places. He combines sculpture and paintings in a unique way to tell dreamy stories.
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Eric Standley stacks hundreds of pieces of paper and cuts them with lasers to create mind-bogglingly intricate patterns. I beg you to click the link.
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Massive Pegasus Made Of 3,500 Smartphones
To promote their newest product, the Ascend D Quad, communications giant Huawei commissioned a sculpture of the mythical winged horse Pegasus out of 3,500 phones.
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Spanish visual artist Ana Soler carefully dangled tennis balls in suspended trajectories. Giving an uncanny sense of motion reminiscent of strobe lighting, they appear to bounce off walls and floors and other surfaces throughout the Mustang Art Gallery.
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Man Creates Massive Artworks in the Snow by Walking
Artist Simon Beck walks in snowshoes for up to 9 hours a day, creating spectacular patterns in snowy fields. Interestingly enough, he said, ‘The main reason for making them was because I can no longer run properly due to problems with my feet, so plodding about on level snow is the least painful way of getting exercise. Gradually, the reason has become photographing them, and I am considering buying a better camera.” Spectacular art for the sake of exercise!
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Artist Grace Grothous created this piece, titled “Uncharted Terrain,” out of old circuit boards. The tiny “buildings” dotting the landscape are actual transistors and circuits that are still attached.
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Due to an exceptionally rare vision disorder, Neil Harbisson is completely colour-blind. He has, however, found a solution.
A webcam attached to his head converts colours into a variety of tones. He has not taken it off except for maintenance since 2004, and he wears it in his passport photo.
When Harbisson isn’t raising questions about the nature of the cyborg and the border between man and machine, he produces art to show others how he sees. Hears. You know what I mean.
