knowinng:
Using his finger to scribe into the layer of dirt built-up from exhaust emissions, Long creates elaborate drawings on the rear shutters of white haulage trucks. In this on-going series, collectively entitled The Great Traveling Art Exhibition, he expands upon the daubing and crude slogans that commonly adorn commercial freight vehicles.
Horse Truck Drawing, 2002,
Drawing in dirt on haulage truck
650 x 246 x 341 cm
Ben Long
Reminds me of all those times I’ve seen “WASH ME” scribed in the dirt on the back windshield of an SUV, except much more talent was exhibited here, of course.
Though Long has no other work on his website that matches the scale and literal hands-on ingenuity of The Great Traveling Art Exhibition, he did make this ice cream sculpture, which is pretty cool.
From Stone is Not Cold, Czech illustrator Miroslav Šašek’s playful vintage children’s illustrations of classical sculptures from London, Rome and the Vatican. The book was published in 1961, but Brain Pickings recently wrote a great little article on Šašek’s clever, beautiful work here.
hoveringcat:
Riusuke Fukahori creates his artwork by painting cross sections of fish in acrylic, building the image up in layers between resin. This gives the pieces a three dimensional effect.
You can see a video of his process here.
Found via Spoon & Tomago.
It’s hard to comprehend how he goes about this until you watch the video. He reminds me vaguely of Korzer-Robinson, being they both have an interesting if lengthy method to their work. However, Fukahori’s art is more realistic than magical, which, after seeing the process, ironically grants it a magical quality. From the video description:
When struggling with artistic vision, Fukahori’s pet goldfish became his inspiration and ever since his passion and lifelong theme. His unique style of painting uses acrylic on clear resin which is poured into containers, resulting in a three-dimensional appearance and lifelike vitality.
Cheers to you Fukahori! Keep doing something probably no one else ever has done or ever will do.
(via issafly)
Adobe and the exemplary art blog Booooooom* recently held a contest for art enthusiasts, blog readers, Adobe users and the like to submit remakes of famous works of art. Above I posted my favorite, a remake of Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” by Spence Pidgeon. It was hard picking my favorite, though. Some of the submissions have not yet been posted, and already it takes about fifteen minutes to go through them.
*I am unsure as to whether I typed the correct number of Os.
I love books. I collect books because I find beauty in both their covers and the knowledge that rests between them. Some novels, when it comes to material, are pure works of art - the “Great American Novels,” etc. But I never considered encyclopedias. Useful sources of information, sure, but not exactly “beautiful.” However, English-based artist Alexander Korzer-Robinson has forced me to reevaluate my opinion.
Robinson turns encyclopedias into fascinating paper sculptures, by cutting into their pages and exposing choice illustrations. This process ultimately results in fantastical works of, well, art - art that seem to harken back to an older time. From his website:
Through my work in the tradition of collage I am pursuing the very personal obsession of creating narrative scenarios in small format. Using antiquarian books, makes the work at the same time an exploration and a deconstruction of nostalgia.
We create our own past from fragments of reality in a process that combines the willful aspects of remembering and forgetting with the coincidental and unconscious. On a general level, I aim to illustrate this process that forms our inner landscape.
Though it appears the process of making these “book sculptures” should be difficult and lengthy, Robinson has created dozens of them, all beautiful, each one telling its own story (though some imagination is required to follow the plot). You can see more examples of his work on his website.
(photo from My Modern Met)
During Kim Jong-il’s reign, Song Byeok was a renowned propaganda artist. However, when found attempting to escape North Korea, Byeok was subsequently beaten by border guards and forced to work in a labor camp for 6 months. From Reuters:
In the freezing Korean winter, Song recalls being lightly dressed, as he was arrested during the summer. A finger on his right hand became infected and eventually, he says, he was so close to death that his captors could get no work out of him, and he was released.
Byeok defected to South Korea in 2002, and since the “Dear Leader’s” death has turned to poking fun at Jong-il through his art. In an interview quoted in artdaily.org, Byeok said paintings mocking Kim John-il during his reign would have gotten his family “taken somewhere nobody knows about and forced to work there until death.”
Now, Byeok has spent his newfound freedom plopping Jong-il’s head on Marilyn Monroe’s body, surrounding him with a pack of hollow-eyed, homeless children, and portraying the late leader in various satirical portraits. You can see more of Byeok’s artwork on his website, most of which, according to the Huffington Post, will be featured in an art expedition opening this Wednesday in Seoul.
(photo from International Business Times)
craigandkarl:
Portrait of Woody for the Little White Lies exhibition. Buy it here, or visit the exhibition at Kemistry Gallery, London.
Reminds me of the cover for Forever Changes, which makes me like their work even more.
