Articles and posts that showcase the very best fine art, experimental art, and more.
Russian artist Dudnikova Eugeniya has an outdoor series where she fills natural knot scars in trees with miniature works of art. Her paintings are scenes of exploration and action, and she lovingly fills the tree scars with the colorful art.
It’s a simple project, but adds color and emotion to the surroundings, and we have a feeling the trees don’t mind so much. Via Behance:
You’ve no doubt read about the awful practice of separating children from their parents at the US/Mexico border, something put in place by the Trump Administration, and an example of the needless cruelty of this racist regime. In a separate but related post by The New Yorker, they focus on the seized belongings of migrants crossing the border, documenting the scale and scope of the human impact. Tom Kiefer, a Customs and Border Protection janitor began taking items out of the trash years back, not knowing what he was going to do with them, but knowing their was a project there somewhere. His collections have become “El Sueño Americano”, or The American Dream, a photographic look at some of the mundane, familiar, and relatable items that customs seizes from migrants trying to cross the border.
Artist/Illustrator Max Löffler has a bold, irreverent style, combining the design of pop-art with a vintage, editorial look and feel. A collection of his work below showcases art from a slew of international publications, from Variety to SXSW, to album covers as well. We appreciate the range of style and emotion in his work. Via Behance:
Reimagining simple items into whimsical sculptures, Thomas Jackson has a series that feels fluid and in motion. Everyday items like takeout containers, hula hoops, and crepe paper are elevated, both in stature and in impact, thanks to interesting formation and whimsical photography. The series is titled Emergent Behavior, and photographed by Alice Harrison.
“I aim to tweak the margins of our visual vocabulary, and to invite fresh interpretations of everyday things.”
Described on his Vimeo page:
Moodles is a short animation based on the effects of negative emotions on one’s self. It turns built up tension, stress, and anxiety into creative catharsis. Frozen figures – once paralyzed by moods – are reduced to heaps of flexible nothingness.
We’ve ridden the metro in Tokyo, and can attest to it’s promptness, it’s speed, and it’s cleanliness. We can’t, however, vouch for the 4th dimension that it will transport you to, in afridimensional‘s world, that is. Using a simple mirrored video technique, afridimensional transports you to another dimension, making it seem like the cityscape is both floating and calming drifting apart. As a train approaches the station, it’s mirrored effect makes it look like a floating hyperloop pod, from the future. The nighttime videography is paired with a music track that helps take you on a visual journey. Makes us want to get our ticket stamped and take another ride. Via Sploid:
Digital picture frames have been promised for decades now. Digital displays that hang on the wall and showcase art. But mostly they look like TVs, not canvasses showcasing art. If you had endless money, you could get a custom system installed in your home, but for most of us, there wasn’t a good solution. Depict wants to change that, with their frame, a 49″ 4K digital display that they call the world’s first museum quality digital canvas. Framed in wood and custom calibrated for artwork, Depict hangs elegantly on your wall, and can be easily rotated landscape or portrait format to showcase different artwork. An app lets you push custom-tailored art to the display, or your own masterpieces. Available this fall for $899.
If you follow surreal posts on Instagram (we do!), you’ll see a number of great posts by @trashriot, a collage artist from Philadelphia. Their work is epic, showcasing outer space merged with vintage photography that includes nostalgia and Americana, like kids jumping into lakes, women smiling in their evening gowns, etc. Powerful and fun work, showcasing the versatility and beauty of collage. Make sure to check out our own Instagram account as well, for other posts that feature surrealist work at @mossandfog
Rodrigo Pinheiro takes famous works of art and creates collages with modern photography and settings. This series is part of his design collective, called Paste in Place. Some of them work better than others, but the result is nonetheless visually arresting and interesting. Via FeelDesain:
South American folklore and mythology play a big role in Olaf Hajek‘s poignant and colorful portraits. The work is complex and filled with life, both literally and figuratively. Characters carry hair and beards overflowing with birds, flowers, monkeys and the like. The acrylic on wood paintings are beautifully flat and matte, versus shiny oil paintings. The work is timeless, we wouldn’t be able to tell if it were produced recently, or eighty years ago. Lovely collection, via Colossal:
Coachella has become a major destination, a music festival that is eclipsing all others. This year the festival has teamed up with artists Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan to create giant, colorful beasts that roam the grounds. The brightly painted monsters are gentle in demeanor, and have already been backdrop to countless selfies and concertgoer photos. In addition to the giant boxy beasts, Coachella’s art includes crazy house-like structures that involve psychedelic projection-mapping. Lots more to see on DesignBoom:
Photographer Bradley G Munkowitz traveled to the Tracy Arm Fjord in Juneau Alaska to capture the beauty of the northern wild. He did so with special camera equipment that reveals these beautiful landscapes in new, experimental color palettes. We think infrared images can be astounding, bringing a familiar subject matter into entirely new light, literally. The results from his series are bold yet poised, wild yet beautifully composed. Waterfalls become rushing lava flows, forests become Suess-like wonderlands. Thanks to his creativity, Alaska’s wild frontier gets seen anew. Via Behance:
Projection mapping, the art and science of precise projected artwork, is coming into it’s own. Take the newly opened Sagaya restaurant in the Ginza neighborhood of Tokyo. It’s diners are greeted to a table that reacts to the plates set on it, so each course is a new and beautiful experience. Butterflies flit and fly around a plate of delicate vegetables. Leave your hand still on the tabletop, and a digital bird may land on it, just to take flight when you move it. Created by art collective Teamlab, the restaurant looks delicious and an experience not to miss. Via DesignBoom:
Valeriya Kutsan is a Russian make-up artist who has taken the craft to a whole new dimension. Rarely do I literally have my jaw drop when perusing images on the internet. This was one of those times. Unbelievably cool and intricate and creative, these works (and their models) will forever change the way I look at the potential of painting a face. Via FastCo Design:
Valeriya Kutsan is a Russian make-up artist who has taken the craft to a whole new dimension. Rarely do we literally have our jaws drop when perusing images on the internet. This was one of those times. Unbelievably cool and intricate and creative, these works (and their models) will forever change the way we look at the potential of painting a face. Via FastCo Design:
