Culture Buzz “These paint splatters — too accurate for sandpeople. Only imperial stormstroopers are so precise.” If you like this, check out more from Arian Noveir. (via mymodernmet.com).
Culture Buzz JKB Fletcher is an Australia-based painter whose photo-realistic work is becoming a sensation.
Politics Buzz Spoiler: It's called “One Nation Under Socialism” and it features the president doing something terrible to the Constitution. (via washington.cbslocal.com)
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Guess you gotta do something to take the edge off being a teacher. And “painting with your tongue” is an ingenious way to hide a crippling paint fumes addiction.
Culture Buzz Chris Buzelli is really good at weaving animals into his work. Here are some of his great oil paintings. (via mymodernmet.com)
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That takes some serious skill. Or witchcraft. It's witchcraft, isn't is?
Culture Buzz A painting owned by Spain's Prado Museum, long thought only to be a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's “Mona Lisa,” was actually painted by an apprentice of the master alongside da Vinci himself as he created the original. This according to museum officials, who announced the exciting news on Wednesday. (via Fark)
Culture Buzz Cecilia Paredes’ elaborate paintings could easily be mistaken for your everyday wallpaper. That is, if it weren’t for the fact that the Peruvian artist manages to blend her own body into each piece of art. (via)
Culture Buzz Everyone's a critic. This is Carmen Tisch, and she is apparently not a fan of abstract expressionism. Tisch was arrested in Denver on December 29th at the Clyfford Still Museum and is still being held for criminal mischief on a $20,000 bond.
Culture Buzz How has no one noticed this in almost 500 years?!?! Artist Ron Piccirillo discovered a whole series of hidden messages from Leonardo da Vinci in the Mona Lisa simply by looking at it from an extreme angle. The most startling of these Renaissance Easter Eggs being three animal heads in the background.
Culture Buzz Some softcore Jurassic Porn for you Goldblumaniacs. Why, Dr. Malcolm…the flapping of your butterfly's wings has caused a hurricane. Of PASSION.
Incredible painting inspired by a very popular weather photo. The artist did a very good job on putting this chaos onto canvas. (Illustrated by Max)
This is Amy Shackelton, who's a bit like Jackson Pollock in shorts. Watch her work at 800x speed, creating a new urban landscape painting, “Terraced City.”< (via reddit.com)
Amy Shackleton is a painter who creates incredible art without the use of paintbrushes. Here's how she does it, in timelapse. (via reddit.com)
Quick! Only a few days left until the bidding is over. (via iheartchaos.com)
Culture Buzz Andy Alcala uses his own face as a canvas to feature popular works of art from Van Gogh to Banksy. Here are ten of his self portraits. (via mymodernmet.com)
Culture Buzz Artist Gabe Leonard paints us a pretty badass picture of the Wild West. (via gabeleonard.com)
Culture Buzz It's like looking into a more mature Wonderland. There is a dream-like quality to Tina Darling's work that is hard to describe.
Culture Buzz Remember kids, blood and gore are fine but boobs will make you blind. Damn hippies of the past, slapping the words “Venus” or “Nymph” on everything to slide past the censors.
What kind of freak paints walls wearing cute underwear? The kind without a ribcage, apparently.
More urban pranksterism from Improv Everywhere, this time deploying an actor with an eerie resemblance to the Velázquez portrait of Spain's King Philip IV to sign autographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. If you don't get the gag, and because I'm prone to condescension, King Philip IV has been dead for 371 years.
A girl jumps across a stunning optical illusion painting. I don't think she made it!
Culture Buzz A series of paintings by Sandro Kopp of friends and family sitting as models during skype-video chats. Fairly long chats as well. Each model sat for between 3 and 5 hours. (More Skype paintings here.)
Holton Rower (a New York-based artist and grandson of Alexander Calder) designed this “Tall Painting,” which is created by pouring paint on top of a wooden block and allowing the colors to cascade down the sides. If Jackson Pollock were alive, he'd be soooo jealous right now!
Culture Buzz An unexpectedly moving series of paintings by artist Simon Willems called “Stormtrooper Mourning the Loss of his Mother.” I haven't been this depressed by Star Wars since I saw how much money “Revenge of the Sith” made.
While watching a documentary on Boy George, a bishop saw a stolen icon of Christ hanging in the singer's home. Boy George returned the painting to the church. He had bought the 300-year-old piece in 1985 without knowing it had been snatched from the Orthodox Church of Cyprus during the 1974 Turkish invasion. It's a miracle! (Via.)
Culture Buzz Gregory Thielker is an hyperealistic painter who specializes in the distorted view you have from the inside of a car when it’s raining outside. More of his amazing work here.
Artist creates paintings on water, plus eerie, unrelated music. This looks really hard.
I like it when painting has a performance element. Spooky and intriguing at the same time. You can see photographs of Alexa Meade's awesome pop-out paintings here. (Via The Culturist.)
Redditor archipelago painted a portrait of his girlfriend in oils…and she hasn't seen it yet. What do you think?