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Japanese artist Makoto Tojiki is well-known for his amazing and oversized LED light sculptures, and his latest, “Hope and Dream”, is equally impressive. This most recent installation was especially created for the luxury beauty product brand Clé de Peau Beauté, which has been making cosmetics, while also respecting the earth and its resources for decades now. The installation was set up in [...]
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Modern art can prove absolutely amazing, and that’s what Paris’s Baptiste Debombourg is here to tell us, with his project Aerial, which entailed blasting two tons of glass into a former Benedictine monastery. The Brauweiler Abbey, located in Germany, has been used as the all-too-suitable site for the work in question. The installation entails recreating curtains, or perhaps an outpour of water, [...]
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When we first saw the amazing sculptures produced by New York-based artist Kris Scheifele, we didn’t quite know how to put our finger on them. More simply put, we didn’t know what they were, but we knew their multilayered texture and complex materiality drew us, fascinated us and left us wanting more. We looked at her entire series and understood that, be [...]
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Did you know socks can be truly amazing? Well, the condition is they be used by skilled visual artist Hong Yi, who used them for an over-sized portrait of Asian pop star Jay Chou. The Shanghai-based visual and performance artist who also goes by the pseudonym of Red, used no fewer than 750 pair of socks to create a large-scale monochromatic portrait [...]
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It’s not that often that we stumble onto visual gems on Twitter, since this social medium is mostly geared toward news. Yet we recently came across the profile of Andre Kuipers, a Dutch astrophysicist, who lists his current location as “In space. 28.000 km/h, 400 km, above Earth. International Space Station.” Andre is currently on his 30th and 31st space expeditions, which [...]
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While we’ve certainly seen our share of amazing visual arts, Spanish painter Pedro Campos did not fail to wow us with his incredible series of canvas paintings. His skill, knowledge of proportion and volume, as well as the ultra-real manner in which he makes use of color, have brought him to create images that are arresting in their lifelikeness. Campos paints Coca [...]
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Take a good, long, close look at the first few pictures in this series. What is it that you’re looking at? Are they paintings or are they sculptures… or are they both? That final variant is also the correct one—they are sculptures of young female characters that simply pop out of paintings. Their author is Japanese visual artist Shintaro Ohata, who is [...]
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Yes, money does make the world go round, and these days, thanks to Canadian artist’s Kristi Malakoff’s vision, it also has the art world spinning on its head. First off, it’s worth noting that Malakoff ought to be thankful she’s not an American. Her sculptural series titled Money Pieces would have thus lost much of its multi-colored appeal, for one thing. For [...]
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You know how we, here at the Beautifulist love miniatures, so it should be no surprise that we fell head over heels for Terada Mokei’s small scale representations of the New York City subway. The Japanese artist works in all media paper related and his latest work is a “1/100 Architectural Model Accessory” titled Series No. 6 New York. The work is [...]
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When you’re a luxury fashion brand and your name is Hermes, you can afford to promote your high-end products in the most uncanny ways. Recently, the French company launched a call for works, in which it was asking cutting-edge artists to create displays for the Hermes line of scarves, handbags and other accessories. Several studios answered the call, and today we display [...]
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What do you do when you’re an ingenious street artist with a formal exhibition coming up in Rome, Italy? Well, obviously, you take the streets of the city by storm. You plant what looks like corpses, people covered in trash and mummies on the streets and then sit back to enjoy the show. The show is, of course, put on by the [...]
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Ukraine-born visual artist Dmitry Khristenko creates works of art which combine two things we here at the BeautifuList love: motor vehicles and wrist watches. How so? The USA-based sculptor disassembles watches into their components and reassembles them into motorcycles, quad bikes, cabriolet cars and so on. The intricate design of watch elements combines with the sheer metallic colors to create pieces that [...]
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Jen Stark is, briefly put, a multi-talented detail-obsessed freak of a visual artist! All right, maybe that didn’t sound too nice, and it’s a pity, because we’re absolutely fascinated with her work. There is such a great degree of sophistication, detail and precision work to her hand-carved paper sculptures, that they absolutely deserve being showered with the most lavish words of praise. [...]
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It clearly takes a gifted artist to intervene on beautiful natural landscapes and gild the proverbial lily; that is, make something beautiful all the more appealing. That is precisely what American visual artist Barry Underwood achieves with his latest series of photographs. The nocturnal images, captured in forests and clearances in the woods, portray what he likes to refer to as ‘light [...]
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Like most of us, Japanese artist Makoto Tojiki displays a fascination for the physical phenomenon of light, which he teases and tames into remarkable life-sized sculptures. How does one sculpt into light? Simple. With the aid of many LED lights, rearranged to form a particular shape—it can be a horse in motion, a standing human being, and all sorts of other animal [...]
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Marine critters are fascinating to say the least, and this is clearly the case with the white spotted jellyfish, recently spotted at the Steinhart Aquarium of the California Academy of Sciences. The Australian jellyfish, as it is alternatively called, also responds to the pompous scientific name of Phyllorhiza punctate. They’re native to the Western Pacific Ocean, but can also be spotted in [...]
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We may not know much about fractals, but we know a thing or two about art, and must acknowledge Chiara Biancheri‘s work for what it is: delicate, complex, organic and outstanding. The Italian artist trained at the University of Genoa and now introduces herself as a 3D modeller and freelance graphic designer. We’d even venture to say there’s much more to her [...]
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Bechet Benjamin definitely has a sense of humor and a post-modernly inclined imagination, which has prompted him to toy with our favorite superheroes and cartoon characters. He took Snow White and placed her by the side of the road as a prostitute. He relegated Spiderman to the lowly position of windshield washer. Donald Duck, he says, would have done no better in [...]
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Trust the Brits to produce visual art that is at once eye-candy and food for thought. After Banksy, here comes multi-skilled illustrator James Roper, with his personal brand of urban-inspired imagery. His outstanding series of paintings Exvoluta and Hypermass, both featured below, explore iconic visual symbols taken from fashion magazines, game animation, comics, web-based found art, as well as the artist’s own [...]
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You may have heard that old refrain, according to which a good woman is worth her weight in gold. Portuguese-Canadian artist Kevin Ledo seems to have taken it quite literally with his The Guiding Light series of oil and acrylic paintings. There is an unmistakable blend of religious sentiment and sensuality to his works, which partly stems from the artist’s devoutly Catholic [...]
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As technology keeps evolving, one can often but wonder what would the classic masterpieces had looked like, had they been produced today. Greek engineer Petros Vrellis took this question to a whole new level, with Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”. He reinterpreted the great impressionist classic into an interactive animation, on display in a contemporary art museum. What the animation does is that [...]
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If you’re a hippie, a fan of seventies psychedelic imagery or simply love vivid, bold colors, then you will love Jane Thomas’s work. Not only does she create impressive visuals, which take our breath away for the manner in which they manage to be both static and dynamic, full of movement and liveliness, but she is also ingenious. How so? Take a [...]
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