Some artists can take expressive art to an almost surreal level. Adam Martinakis is one of them. With 3d digital renders of sculptures with a somewhat disturbing yet subtle feel. Each piece definitely creates a mysterious story that is left to the viewer’s level of creativity in imagination. There is such an odd force of attraction and wonder that doesn’t leave right after one looks away from the artwork.
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Valentines’ Day might be over but it isn’t too late for some matchmaking! This time, it’s going to be done with the use of vintage album covers. Voices of East Anglia showed that creativity can be well-played through these records to actually provoke a subtle laugh or nudge that upward curve in the lips of the viewers.
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When one is both hungry and bored, sometimes it can result to more than an ounce of high-end imagination. Vanessa Dualib takes humor into food art and uses creativity to pose a story or a scene. Combined with believable expressions marked on the subjects is her perfect timing with the capture of each shot, imposing that it was as if these lifeless objects are actually animated.
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Concept artist Albulena Panduri from Albania concentrates her art on imparting surrealism on objects that don’t necessarily go together had they been seen from a normal perspective. She takes things a step further away from reality by playing with one’s prospect, expressing different concepts that at times will provoke questions in one’s mind such as “What if I had looked at the world at this angle?”
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Billy Bonkers is a photographer more widely known for his photomanipulations with subtle humor. Ideas don’t just bounce off the ceiling, as I believe it takes both a witty mind and a whole gallon of editing skills to come up with such works of art.
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More than 30 talented graffiti artists hooked up at a bone yard – a large space hosting several non-functioning WWII american military airplanes – and embellished the fiecfeull war machines with extraordinary art. The Bone Yard Project is curated by Eric Firestone, Carlo McCormick, Leslie Oliver and Med Sobio and this is the second edition of airplane intervention. The first one featured spectacular nose-cone paintings.
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Neytiri by James Cameron
As a tribute to the fiftieth anniversary of the feminine fashion icon Barbara Millicent Roberts, French artist Jocelyn Grivaud created this one-of-a-kind doll collection. She recreates famous artwork using Barbie dolls as subjects. A lot of effort is taken to recreate the details of the original artwork without making Barbie unrecognizable. The collection is meant to show both modern and ancient concepts of beauty.
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She likes photography and he likes programming. Students Ayaka Ito and Randy Church combined their talents and came up with these breathtaking photographs distorted and reconstructed in 3D. The themes of their “Cinema Flash Showdown” project are The Influence of Occupations, and Man vs. Nature brought to life by ingeniously using scribble lines inserted into photography.
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Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada is a Cuban American contemporary artist. He used sand and gravel for his portrait of Spanish architect Enric Miralles, as part of his “Terrestrial Series”.
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Kate MccGwire’s practice probes the beauty inherent in duality, exploring the play of opposites – at an aesthetic, intellectual and visceral level – that characterises the way we conceive the world. She does this by appealing to our essential duality as human beings, to our senses and our reason, and by drawing on materials capable of embodying a dichotomous way of seeing, feeling and thinking. The finished work has a consistent ‘otherness’ to it that places it beyond our experience of the world, poised on a threshold between the parameters that define everyday reality.
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