Life-Sized Female Sculptures Inspired by the Graceful Beauty of Renaissance Art
Chinese artist Luo Li Rong creates life-size bronze sculptures of women inspired by Renaissance and Baroque sculpting techniques. Her figures are usually captured in motion, often with their dresses or garments seemingly fluttering in the breeze around them, and the artist’s painstaking attention to detail ensures that every crease and fold is precisely where it should be. Rong has been sculpting for much of her life, having studied...
Woman Gives Up Teaching To Create Optical Illusions With Makeup, And It’s Messing With Our Minds
Makeup is usually used for slightly adjusting the everyday look but some actually realize its true potential. Mimi Choi from Vancouver, Canada is one of them. She is a 31-year-old makeup artist who creates intense hyperreal optical illusions, and her amazing work has earned Mimi 274,000 followers on Instagram. Before discovering makeup art, Mimi trained as a teacher and worked in a pre-school for three years. “I felt like my...
Disney Princesses As Modern Day Girls Living In 2017
In recent years, we’ve seen quite a few reimagined ‘modern’ versions of the Disney princesses we grew up loving and admiring. This latest interpretation by Chilean digital artist Fernanda Suarez, however, might be the fairest of them all. Starting with Snow White back in July, Suarez has gone on to illustrate 7 classic princesses in hip, present-day fashion. These sketched-up smoke shows look like they follow Luxy...
Korean Artist Illustrates The Beauty Of Falling In Love So Well You Can Almost Feel It
After all the flashy declarations of love go, the small but truly romantic things stay. And that’s what South Korean illustrator, Hyocheon Jeong, has captured in her heartwarming illustration series. She drew simple everyday moments of couples being together, cozying up to each other with the occasional cat by their side. “The sources of my inspiration are always stories of people. Most of them are the stories of me and my boyfriend....
20+ Times People Accidentally Found Their Doppelgängers In Museums And Couldn’t Believe Their Eyes
Do you find classic art a bit hard to relate to? So do us, but that could easily change upon a find like these guys stumbled upon when they uncovered their identical doppelgangers in old paintings! A&D has compiled a list of these suspected time travelers who snapped a selfie next to their twins preserved in old canvas. But the words won’t do it justice, so better scroll down and see for yourself. Also, don’t forget to...
Artist Turns People Into 3D Pixar-Like Characters And You Can Become One Too
What do artists Robert DeJesus and Lance Phan have in common? They both turn strangers into awesome characters. However, while DeJesus does anime caricatures , Phan creates portraits that are much more Pixar-like. From a girl enjoying the beach with her doggo to a guy strumming his guitar, these images look so awesome, you could easily mistaken them for stills of a feature-length animation movie. Scroll down to see the stunning...
Gustav Klimt’s Paintings Get Recreated With Real-Life Models, And The Result Is Amazing
Have you ever wondered what some of your favourite paintings would look like in real life? Austrian photographer Inge Prader has recreated selected iconic works from her compatriot Gustav Klimt, and the results are stunning. Klimt is most commonly associated with the Art Nouveau style, a bold and elaborate aesthetic that originated at around the turn of the 20th century. The aesthetic inspired artists as well as architects such as...
Inside this Unassuming Log Cabin is the Craziest Cat House You Will Ever See
Do you like cats? Would you like to buy a house for your cat(s)? If you answered yes to these questions your search is over. Welcome to 669 County Road 8235 in Stanford Concho, Arizona (MLS #215144). For the low price of US$240,000 this 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 2,500 sq. ft. cat shrine can be all yours for you and your feline companions. As per the listing description: Single Family Detached – Contemporary eccentric full log sided...
50+ Epic Photos From Burning Man 2017 That Prove It’s The Craziest Festival In The World
Did you know that before becoming one of the most iconic festivals in North America, the Burning Man first took place in San Francisco back in 1986, when two friends burned an eight-foot statue? More than 30 years later it has grown into an event which hands over 7 square miles of Nevada’s desert to about 70,000 visitors for them to enjoy music in, create art and roam the land for a week. Today is the last day of the festival which...
If Tim Burton Illustrated ‘Game Of Thrones’ Characters
Game Of Thrones season 7 just ended leaving many viewers with emptiness inside. While fans hybernate for almost 2 years waiting for another thrilling episode, all that’s left to do is to appreciate some high quality fan art of the series. Andrew Tarusov, a Russian-born artist famous for redrawing popular characters in Tim Burton’s style, has decided to dedicate his newest work to the world of Game Of Thrones. The...
