A Look at Art in the Modern Day.
By Christina Lazarakis I whacked my toe last night. I had been chasing my husband, Christopher, playfully trying to tackle him. Turning the corner to our bedroom, my naked, right little toe clipped the edge of the door and I whacked it … hard. So hard in fact that I sliced it. Blood? Not much, […]
Artist Seo Young Deok I’ve always been fascinated by chain. It’s solid yet flexible. Smooth but unforgiving. It has a certain rugged beauty to it. Well, aparently, Korean artist Seo Young Deok has the same fascination. Actually, his fascination is one of obsession. Deok creates beautiful human body sculptures with chain (not just bicycle chain, but the bicycle […]
First off, I’d like to announce that Give Us Art! is back up and running! The challenges and issues of real life have been resolved and I can get back to my pursuit of Art in the modern day. There will be upcoming changes to both the formatting and to postings, but i’ll get more […]
Artists Allen and Patty Eckman create amazingly detailed cast paper sculptures using a special technique they themselves perfected. Allen had discovered cast paper sculpture while photographing a brochure and immediately recognized its purity and the possibilities it had to offer. Cast paper sculpture originated in Mexico, around 1950, but the Eckmans developed their own technique, […]
Contemporary German Sculptor Katharina Fritsch takes on relatively ordinary subjects in new, and often times jarring, ways. Most notably is the size of her works. Though many are meant specifically for museums, the size and scope of these works make a real impact. A couple perfect examples of that are her Child with Poodles (above) […]
Australian Artist Carves Paper and Books Artist Kylie Stillman recycles paper and books by turning them into carved sculptures. Though not as jaw dropping as the work of the “Book Surgeon” Book As Art: The Book Surgeon, Stillman’s works are nonetheless still a conceptual masterpiece. Using a scalpel, Stillman cuts right into the stack of […]
Dave Higgins’ work looks like something strait out of a Juxtapoz magazine spread. It’s detailed and intricate enough to make you want to spend time with it. It’s just about odd enough to not want to. And that is why it’s so interesting. Is it Outsider Art?, Lowbrow?, Surrealist? Or maybe even Fine Art? Whatever […]
When Rubber No Longer Meets The Road: The Amazing Sculptures of Ji Yong Ho Korean artist Ji Yong Ho may be one of the most interesting, and amazing, sculptors I’ve ever seen. He takes a hard to use material, like old rubber tires, and converts them into something entirely new. It’s like he breathes life […]
Incredible Miniatures Carved from Matchsticks By Spooky on March 28th, 2011, http://www.odditycentral.com It seems you can make sculpture out of just about anything. I thought I already knew that. But, I’d never really seen someone “sculpt” from a single matchstick. Sure, I’ve seen matchsticks used like lincoln logs to create, rather impressive if not more […]
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