Posts Tagged ‘animals’
Extraordinary Origami
Vietnamese paper artist Nguyễn Hùng Cường does with folded paper what some artists do with, say, a paintbrush or pencil. His highly expressive form of origami is really remarkable. Featuring mostly animals, Cường’s body of work is like a masterclass in the art of paper folding. The level of detail he achieves is really quite…
Read MoreHybrid Animal Portraits
Young, French artist Charlotte Caron works in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, engraving and photography. Her series of painted portraits is particularly captivating. This unique execution involves painting animal faces over photographed human forms, and serves as commentary about the complexity of human nature, and being part civilized and part wild. Caron cites…
Read MoreOrigami Portraits
While this awesome series showcases California-based artist Marc Fichou’s superior folding skills, it digs deeper conceptually. In his own words, Fichou explains that “intention here is to create a piece where the image cannot be separated from its referent, thus creating a visual link between past and present.” Essentially, each origami is superimposed over the…
Read More"Striking" Sculptures
Scottish sculptor and installation artist David Mach’s body of work is impressive, to say the least. With some 30 years of experience, Mach has found compelling ways to gather mass-produced found art objects into flowing formations. His “Matcheads” are particularly striking (pun intended), composed of unstuck colored match sticks arranged to look like the patterned…
Read MoreBits and Pieces
Australian artist Sean Avery repurposes CDs into intricately sculpted animals, most notably birds. Avery literally layers fragments of broken CDs to form feathers… undoubtedly a painstaking process. His work is apparently in galleries around the world, and Ripley’s Believe It or Not has recently purchased some sculptures for display in their Baltimore and Hollywood museums.…
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