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Art of Chocolate
Some people may unabashedly crave chocolate and consume it as fast as they can rip away the wrapper. However, by doing so, they miss on some serious creativity and artistic thinking that modern chocolaters are putting into their products. In this article we’ll see some very yummy and eminently edible chocolates … totally not healthy (but you know all about that)
Surreal Art of Jacek Yerka
One interesting quality of his art is how the common, easily-recognizable objects are transformed and inserted into a wholly alien environment (this being the hallmark of surrealism, for sure), and how the artist never fails to convey his mood and commentary about the real world – all of which remains powerfully imprinted on a viewer’s mind for days to come. Some of the artwork you might have seen in the “Mind Fields” collection (order it here), which even inspired Harlan Ellison to write a few stories. Other art is less known, but just as mind-blowing.
“An Uninhabited Island”
Human Pixels in Monumental Art
Human Pixels: Group Art during the days of early photography
Just before the World War One the country needed patriotic images, aiming to recover national identity with the help of the rising art of photography. Arthur Mole (1889-1983) together with John Thomas used their 11 x 14-inch view camera to create the so-called “living photographs”, done on a monumental scale. By arranging thousands of soldiers (reservists, or nurses) in various patriotic symbols and photographing them from above, they were able to use lines of perspective to transform meaningless masses into artistic shapes and even portraits. (See more images at the Library of Congress gallery, not copyrighted)
“Sincerely yours, Woodrow Wilson, 1918″
21,000 officers and men, Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio
Satellite Dish Urban Art
The satellite dish, being one of the most recognizable symbols of technological progress, gets various funny and artistic treatments from creative individuals around the world. A plain vanilla white dish seems to be just as offensive to the senses as the dumb beige of the standard PC hardware. No wonder people bring out the colors and make that “telecommunication flower” bloom all over the place.
Whole city blocks seem to have joined the “psychedelic dish” movement:
Funniest & Most Creative Graffiti Street Art
What would our cities look like if everyone who had a creative urge could contribute to artistic expression without official obstacles and red tape? Not every artist has the taste and style to enhance the environment, plus some “negative space”, or simply blank walls could be a good thing sometimes.
(image credit: Innocent English)
