Posted on June 15, 2008 by Puzzles
In Rome , there are several wonderful examples of how Renaissance and Baroque artists were beginning to re-learn the lessons of perspective, which, had been discarded during the medieval period while artists focused on the social and religious dimensions of art.
Realistic perspective in paintings requires artists to understand a lot about the human vision system. [...]
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Posted on June 10, 2008 by Puzzles
Robbie Rowlands is one of a number of artists who had a rare opportunity to do whatever they wanted to a building that was soon to be demolished.
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Posted on April 24, 2008 by Puzzles
The photographs of Gillian Brown are specials; Why? you’d probably say at first. But look! don’t conclude things only at the first photo. Go reading and you’ll see few more photos of the same set – only seen from different perspectives.
The truth is that these aren’t just paintings painted over real life [...]
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Posted on March 5, 2008 by Puzzles
The amazing portraits were made by sticking small pieces of tape one over another. The more layers author attached one over another, the darker was the shade he achieved. It struggles me how detailed all of the portraits are, and it must have taken time and great amount of talent to create something so [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2008 by Puzzles
Most of the examples of street art at Optical illusion from Kurt Wenner or Julian Beever appear drop down into a hole, but not many where the image appears to pop up like this.This fine piece of art by Manfred Stader and Edgar Müller does just that.
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Posted on February 20, 2008 by Puzzles
Face painting illusion
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Posted on February 13, 2008 by Puzzles
Holland artist and mathematician Rinus Roelofs constructs charming mathematical structures. He constructs his structures in computer but some of them became sculptures in various Holland towns.
The sculpture above was erected in Borne (Holland) in 2005. It consists of 26 tetrahedrons or 104 triangles. Triangles are just slid together. Construction is stable and need no [...]
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Posted on January 16, 2008 by Puzzles
Posted on January 5, 2008 by Puzzles
These people have done something really cool in here: they painted over every old wall they found. How they did it? They looked for familiar shapes on those walls and its cockles that might look like faces and then used their skills and paint to make their imagination look real. There is sure a [...]
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