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Fact Protesters Against Spending Cuts Take Part In TUC's “March For The Alternative” Through London

Paint splattered police officers look on during clashes outside Top Shop on Oxford Street, during marches in protest at government cuts on March 26, 2011 in London, England. Thousands are taking part in the Trades Union Congress (TUC) organised march to Hyde Park where a rally will take place. Police say they are deploying 4500 officers. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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28 Mar 2011 08:52:00,post received 0 comments

Educative Artworks Form Part Of The Cult Of Beauty Exhibition At The Victoria And Albert Musuem.

A visitor to ''The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900'' exhibition at The V&A Museum looks at sculptures by Thornycroft (L) and Watts on March 30, 2011 in London, England. This exhibition brings together for the first time many masterpieces in painting, sculpture, design and furniture as well as fashion and literature and runs from April 2nd to July 17th 2011.

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30 Mar 2011 17:10:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Pixelated Wilderness Illustrations by Laura Bifano

These Laura Bifano “Menagerie” images will surely mess with your eyes as you begin to lose sight of what’s real and what’s virtual. Inspired by her love of nature and of video game graphics, this artist made a unique collection of painted, pixelated animals, fusing the two distinct aesthetics in a harmonious and breathtaking manner.

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29 Nov 2012 10:31:00,post received 0 comments

Funny Imagine Life as Children by Pierrette Diaz

The minds of children are a wondrous thing… I think. I don’t quite remember how it was my mind worked as a child, but it’d better have been wondrous because otherwise I have no explanation for how absolutely insane children act. Either way, Pierrette Diaz did a fantastic job of bringing the world of little kids to adults in an interesting series of paintings that depict the world through a child’s eyes.

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06 Jul 2012 06:10:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Anamorphic Illusions by Felice Varini

Felice Varini is a Swiss artist who was nominated for the 2000/2001 Marcel Duchamp Prize, known for his geometric perspective-localized paintings in rooms and other spaces, using projector-stencil techniques. According to mathematics professor and art critic Joël Koskas, “A work of Varini is an anti-Mona Lisa”.

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30 Jan 2014 13:13:00,post received 0 comments

Funny Portrait Drawings of Winnie Truong

Winnie Truong was born in Toronto, where she still lives, and received her BFA in painting and drawing from Ontario College of Art and Design.

Using pencil, crayon, and chalk pastel on giant sheets of paper, Truong creates portraits with great detail. Her aim is to explore notions of beauty and discomfort and, inspired by science fiction, she portrays hair in all its ‘whiskery, wispy, curly, bristly’ brilliance.

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07 Jun 2015 10:44:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Wooden Sculpture by Zheng Chunhui

A famous Chinese wood carver, Zheng Chunhui has won a Guinness World Record after developing the longest wooden carving of the world. Zheng spent 4 years developing the artwork that is about forty feet long and made sculpture from a single tree trunk. The artwork is basically a copy of the popular Chinese painting named Along the River during the Qingming Festival that was made around one thousand years ago.

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11 Mar 2015 10:45:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Butterflies as Works of Art

Frander Arroyo, select wings of butterflies at Blue Morpho Butterfly House in Alajuela, Costa Rica, March 10, 2016. According to Arroyo, owner of Blue Morpho Butterfly House, he collects dead butterflies from his garden to mount as handicraft like earrings, necklaces, paintings and rings for export with prices ranging from $12 to $16 a piece. (Photo by Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters)

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12 Mar 2016 14:29:00,post received 0 comments