Art by Pascal Campion.
Tag: art
Who Who
via @jasonthielke on Ello
How it feels to walk in the city
Looks like Jagger
Paris’ Grevin Wax Museum painter Franck Bruneau prepares the head of Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger’s statue in their workshop before it is shipped to Prague for the opening of the museum on April 11, 2014. (Reuters/Philippe Wojazer)
Well, no need to sleep tonight…or ever again. Via In Focus.
Never apologize for selfies.
Seeing Art
Here’s what you do. Click the Wikipaintings random link over and over. In fact, open 20 new tabs in the background. Now you’ve generated your own little art gallery.
Take some time to explore through the paintings. Click through to the artist page to learn more about the personalities behind the canvas. Click the style link to learn more about the style and find more paintings of that era and style.
Wiki paintings goal is to create the most “high-quality, most complete and well-structured online repository of fine art.”
We hope to make classical art a little more accessible and comprehensible, and also want to provide a new form of interaction between contemporary artists and their audience. In the future we plan to cover the entire history of art —- from cave artworks to the new talents of today.
Visiting art museums isn’t the only way to experience your artistic heritage.
The Scream by Edvard Munch
According to Munch, he was inspired to paint this scene as he was walking in a boardwalk with tow of his companions. As he stopped and his companions walked on, he looked up at the blood red sky and felt a “the scream of nature” moving through him.
Under water photos or Baroque paintings?
Action Scene Cut Out Art
Halifax-based artist David Reeves creates thrilling paper cut out action scenes involving typical action characters like zombies, superheroes, and ninjas.
Star Gazing
by Thomas Allen