Desnudos

Las fotografías de desnudos de Leonid Markachev no pasan desapercibidas

Kristina, by Leonid Markachev

Las de Jan Slotboom tampoco se quedan cortas

With Guitar and Pointe Shoes, by Jan Slotboom

Flores de colores

See you

- Trevor Brady es un fotógrafo fascinante, que conjuga la belleza y la creatividad en cada una de sus series de moda y publicidad.
- Oscar Monzón se ha encaramado a un puente y curiosea con el objetivo de su cámara en el interior de los coches que circulan por Madrid.
- No te pierdas el trabajo soberbio de Lisa Rodden. Sus obras cortando papel te sorprenderán gratamente.
- Carolina Fontoura construye unas lámparas preciosas con la ayuda de piezas de bicicletas.
- Call Parade es una exposición urbana de cabinas teléfonicas diseñadas por diversos artistas.

- El excelente trabajo de la ilustradora Maryn Roos ha sido publicado en libros y material educativo infantil. No dudo que aprender con sus dibujos debe ser todo un deleite.
- Me encanta la ropa que confecciona BongaChopShop con sábanas infantiles.
- Albyky es una pintora e ilustradora francesa afincada en Madrid a seguir de cerca.
- Bellísimas ilustraciones de un libro infantil japonés de 1927, por Takeo Takei.
- Divertida colección de creaciones artísticas con ayuda de viejos casetes

Manhattan esculpida en un bloque de mármol de 2,5 toneladas

As far as maps go, this one definitely holds its weight.

A scaled model of Manhattan hand carved from a slab of marble tips the scales at an astounding two-and-a-half tons.

The miniature creation of America's most famous skyline, carved by Japanese artist Yataka Sone, has art enthusiasts at a New York City gallery awestruck.

Astounding: Yutaka Sone's Little Manhattan marble sculpture, weighs as much as a Rolls-Royce Phantom VI

Precision: Mr Sone used photographic reproductions, imagery from Google Earth, and several helicopter rides to render Manhattan with its skyscrapers, streets, avenues, and the bridges to the east and west to scale

Recently put on display at the David Zwirner gallery in New York, Mr Sone used photographic reproductions, imagery from Google Earth, and several helicopter rides to render Manhattan with its Central Park, skyscrapers, streets, avenues, and the bridges to the east and west to scale.

Little Manhattan, carved between 2007 and 2009, measures 21 3/4 x 104 3/8 x 33 1/2 inches.

And it was the highlight of the exhibit when it opened on September 20, with passers-by noting the painstaking precision with which Mr Sone carved the city's every building and sloping street.

The exhibition marks Mr Sone's fifth solo showing since his first exhibition at the gallery in 1999. The current exhibition also includes other marble works and sculptures of trees made predominantly from rattan. 

Long haul: The scaled model took two years to carve

On display: Yutaka Sone: Island at David Zwirner in New York opened earlier this month and runs until October 29

Attention to detail: A tiny model of Manhattan's Central Park lies amongst miniature marble skyscrapers

Mr Sone was born in 1965 in Shizuoka, Japan.

He studied architecture at the Tokyo Geijutsu University. The artist predominantly works in sculpture, but also uses painting, drawing, photography, video, and performance as means of expression.

His work was shown in a number of group exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad,

Yutaka Sone: Island at David Zwirner in New York runs until October 29, 2011

See video at original post: Marble model of Manhattan weighs in at a mighty two-and-a-half TONS | Mail Online

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El arte de las manos de Guido Daniele

Mighty Optical Illusions

I see some you have asked whether I have resigned from maintaining this blog, and whether Jill has been assigned as new editor in chief. Whether you like it or not I’m here to stay! It’s just that I was too busy over the last few days organizing a sport tournament, so didn’t have much time to work on new posts. This was only temporarily and this is why Jill’s work has dominated over the last couple of days. Everything should return to normal from now on, as my vacation is over and I’m back to business :D What could be better to start my shift with, other than new works of Milan-based artist Guido Daniele. Guido has created some gorgeous and fresh trompe l’oeil hand art! You’ve probably seen some of his early work on this site before, as well as ad campaigns he worked on! Hope you’ll enjoy these… For more samples, be sure to visit Guido’s official homepage.

Mighty Optical Illusions

Miniesculturas de escenas callejeras, de Alan Wolfson

Vía Mira y Calla

El realismo que le impregna Alan Wolfson a sus esculturas de localizaciones urbanas en miniatura es realmente asombroso. Hasta el deterioro y la decadencia de cualquier establecimiento consigue reflejarlo a la perfección.

"PEEPWORLD" (2007)
17 1/2 x 22 1/4 x 26 inches

'Subway Inn' interior view.

The array is comprised of approximately 300 LEDs. The lights in the circle 'chase' in and out, and has a switch to change to the 'all on at once' mode.

"PEEPWORLD" (2007)

Motorreloj, por Dmitriy Khristenko

Vía Mira y Calla

Dmitriy Khristenko 'dkart71' es el ingenioso autor de estas réplicas de motocicletas construidas con piezas de relojes

Extreme Murals & Painted Buildings

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Bleak Walls Transformed by Creativity
Urban landscape can be drab and featureless - but not when artists are spicing it up with spectacular wall paintings, as shown in this article. Some murals can be considered realistic illusions, some have educational and historical meaning, some can be labeled as "kitsch", but all of them are welcome splashes of color and creativity in the city's day-to-day life.

(Restoration of the Fine Arts Museum of Brussels, photo by Maxime)
We'll start with a cheerful building in Tarragona, Spain:

(images credit: Jesus Garrido, David Mari Frasquet, see details here)
A beautiful one found in Campestang, France (left) - and an intriguing painting on the old door in Rome:

(images credit: Pappe, Piterart)
Ornate balconies in Barcelona (left):

(top left image credit: Santi)
Apartment buildings in Holland (if not for paint, they would definitely look depressing and bleak):

Portrait murals are especially effective when painted on dilapidated old walls, speaking about passage of time, life and real values:


Here is a series of buildings in Lyon, France:



(images via)
And a more psychedelic variety from Russia:


(image via)
Something strange arrived in Berlin (left image); and a magenta fish found in Japan:

(left image credit: Piterart)
The sailing ship on the right was spotted in Brussels:

(right image credit: Eliseo Oliveras)
A couple more from Paris, sent in by Stan Barets:

(photos by Stan Barets)
I took this photo in Cannes, France:

(image credit: Avi Abrams)
The following wall paintings are in Jerusalem, and reflect the city's multifaceted past:

(images credit: Nathan)
Germany is full of the wonderful murals, especially in Bavaria, where it became a traditional folk art:

(image via Genador)

(image credit: Avi Abrams)
Very sophisticated mural in Quebec, Canada:

(image credit: Vince Arno)
One in Belfast, Ireland:

(photo by Nikakoj)
Back side of the Gooderham Flat Iron Building in Toronto:

(photo sent in by Jim Sellen)
Looooong 3D Murals by Eric Grohe
Here is an artist who really breaks the monotonous geometry of official buildings, parking lots, and shopping malls, with his own marvelous perspective and 3D illusions. Eric Grohe has an impressive array of projects on his site, check them out.
Bucyrus Area Community Foundation, Ohio:

Here is how he makes an endless wall of the shopping mall actually... attractive:


(images credit: Eric Grohe)
Swimming pool mural:

Chamber of Commerce, Bucyrus, Ohio:

Here is another wonderful example of wall 3D paintings, but I'd like to know who the artist is:


(image via)
Various 3D Wall Paintings, all spectacular:
Many are by trompe l'oeil ("trick of the eye") muralist and artist John Pugh:




(images credit: John Pugh)
What you've just seen is not in any way three-dimensional, it's all a trick, an illusion... Here are some places (walls) on which this wonder unfolds: a sidewalk in Sarasota County Health Center, Florida... all-too-realistic wave in a sidewalk in Honolulu, Hawaii...the 'earthquake' wall on Main Street of Los Gatos, California, was created following a real earthquake there in 1989...

"Tunnel Vision" at AgFirst Building in Columbia, South Carolina:


(images credit: John Pugh)
Here is another transformation trick by mural painter Dominique Antony - boring grey facade of the Paris’ Saint-Georges Theatre, shown before and after:

(images via)
Some of the "trompe-l'oeil" in Belgrade, Serbia:

(image credit: Ninello52)
Beautiful wall painting in Rome, Italy:

(image credit: Pier Giorgio)
Montpellier, France (on the left)... and a perspective illusion in Madrid, Spain (bottom right):

(images credit: Jean-Louis Zimmermann, Ana Alas)
Very nice painting on a wall of a bakery in Dijon, France:

(image credit: Nils Andriessen)
Extreme animated crowd by Kenny Scharf, in NYC:

(see more here)
These people are watching you.... somewhere in Russia (they would, wouldn't they?):


(mural in Warsaw, Poland )


(images via)
Even creepier is this mural (location unknown):

Using Colour... to the Max!
Gaudy but impressive colors of the Ramenskoe apartment district in Moscow:


Is this the utmost in urban psychedelics? The whole apartment complex painted in unbelievably bright colors... Looks interesting enough, but how would it feel to live in the middle of a paint explosion or a rainbow gone nuts?


(images via)
Colourful painted apartment buildings of Tirana, the capital of Albania (post-communist efforts to brighten up depressing old urban blocks):


(image credit: David Dufresne)
Gorgeous, almost glowing Caminito district in Buenos Aires, Argentina:

(images via 1, 2)
The richest colours combine into a feast for the eyes:

(image via)
Now... how about some fun in the ghetto? This was exactly the mission of two Dutch painters Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn - to go to the poorest section of Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums) and paint it in the cheerful way, with active participation of people who live there:



(images via)
Perhaps the most famous mural of all: "Apple Corp." (that is the Beatles, not Steve Jobs) wall on Carnaby Street in London:

(image via)
Banksy's wonderful mural / graffiti gracing a wall of an "UP" building slated to float into the clouds:

And while you're painting the wall, you might as well have some lunch and a card game break ("Compagnie les Passagers" street theater):

(image credit: Rogiro)
This post will be the first installment in a series. Please send us the photos of cool murals you spotted around the world, and we'll make up the second part from your submissions (send it to "Suggest a link" email). Good hunting!
CONTINUE "PAINTED CITY BLOCKS"! ->

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