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Posts tagged: art
#Shok-1 #gallery #southeast #london #art #urban #streetart #bug #businesstrip #london #tourism
#London #TabernacleStreet #MonkeyMagic :-) love a mosaic that makes you lift your head up when it’s raining #travel #tourism #instagram #instagrammers #mosaic #art #urban #streetart (at Pret A Manger)
Thank you to likeafieldmouse:
Alexander Seton - Soloist (2012) - white marble
I find this image somehow very zen. Suburban Buddha of the hoodie generation. Could be anyone. Could be you. Could be Yoda.
#love #photooftheday #instagram #instagramers #instagram #iphone #iphonography #photography #myparis #parisien #paris #Menilmontant #Messanger #mural #art - dancing people in a heart formation #Belleville (Taken with Instagram)
Paco Duarte - Basic Baggage
I like this artist’s work - think it is very salient. His posts always stop me in my tracks and make me reflect on the issue. It’s like being tazered visually. Or maybe that’s just me.
The next post is my answer to this image …
I like to see this as an illustration of my previous blog post.
Many thanks to … archiemcphee:
British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster are a creative team known for their experimental art including these mind-boggling light and shadow sculptures. The duo forms abstract works from, which upon first glance, look like nothing other than straightforward piles of trash. The excitement for the viewer comes when a single light illuminates the pile and creates an entirely new piece of art—usually portraits of themselves—formed with the combination of light and shadow projected onto the wall.
Throughout their careers, the artists have, “Played with the idea of how humans perceive abstract images and define them with meaning. The result is surprising and powerful as it redefines how abstract forms can transform into figurative ones.”
Head over to My Modern Metropolis to view more of Tim and Sue’s awesome artwork!
As monuments go this is pretty special …
Bloom: an awesome art installation of 28,000 potted flowers installed at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center
“In 2003 a building housing the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC) was slated for demolition to make way for updated facilities. The closure was a time for reflection and remembrance as the MMHC had been in operation for over 9 decades and had touched countless thousands of patients and employees alike, and the pending demolition presented a unique problem. How does one memorialize a building impossibly rich with a history of both hope and sadness, and do it in a way that reflects not only the past but also the future? And could this memorial be open to the public, not as a speech, or series of informational plaques, but as an experience worthy of they building’s unique story?
To answer that question artist Anna Schuleit was commissioned to do the impossible. After an initial tour of the facility she was struck not with what she saw but with what she didn’t see: the presence of life and color. While historically a place of healing, the drab interior, worn hallways, and dull paint needed a respectful infusion of hope. With a limited budget and only four months of planning Schuleit and an enormous team of volunteers executed a massive public art installation called Bloom. The concept was simple but absolutely immense in scale. Nearly 28,000 potted flowers would fill almost every square foot of the MMHC including corridors, stairwells, offices and even a swimming pool, all of it brought to life with a sea of blooms. The public was then invited for a limited 4-day viewing as a time for needed reflection and rebirth.”
Pictured above you see: One of the tiny offices on the third floor, with orange tulips at mid-day, The Child Psychiatry unit with white tulips, Pink Heather in one of the patients’ waiting rooms, purple flowers that had traveled the farthest to be part of Bloom—all the way from California, and Red Regina Mums in the hallway that was the last one to close—it used to be one of the busiest homeless shelters in Boston.
Read more about Bloom over at Colossal, where you’ll find more wonderful photos and an interview with Anna Schuleit.
Always so much promise when you start with a blank sheet.
This massive piece of art that appears to be a simple line drawing of a sheet of paper is an awesome optical illusion created by sculptor Neil Dawson. It’s located in New Zealand on ”The Farm”, a large private art park owned by Alan Gibbs.
[via Sweet Station]
What you see on this image are color pigments dancing on a speaker.
By placing the pigments on a speaker and then playing music through it, the membrane of the speaker starts to vibrate, creating these funny looking figures. To capture the very moment, in which the pigments are lifted into the air, a microphone was attached to the flash system. Like this everytime the micro picks up a sound, it triggers the flashes.
Basquiat. Snapped at the back of the Palais Du Tokyo in Paris. I like.
