Those who believe that contemporary art is nothing but unsystematic stains on canvases or exhibitions with unmade beds as exhibits will be very surprised to see the following works, because modern artists, sculptors and other creators often create real masterpieces. They are bold, they are thoughtful, and they are very original! See for yourself, isn't it great?
1. Rubik's Cube Cake
2. Russian story painting in one picture - "Trouble does not come alone"
3. The artist invites brave visitors to stand under 300 pointed pitchforks hanging from the ceiling.
4. Artwork from the new exhibition of the famous street artist Banksy
5. Huge ship made from paper boats
Claire Morgan's "Water on the brain".
6. Works of art from dirt on cars
Source 7Great Chef's Dish Made From Army Rations
Chef Chuck George, cinematographer Jimmy Plum and photographer Henry Hargues teamed up to create these curious installations.
Pork brain with stewed potatoes and beef with red sauce.
Prunes, apple marmalade and melted cheese.
8. What happens if you add some colors to famous sports logos?
9 Ceramic Kiss
10. Installation "People I see but don't know"
Thousands of miniature metal figurines by author Zadok Ben-David.
11. Delightful graffiti
12. Ceramic crumpled beer cans
13. Installation made entirely of books
14. Miniature Cakes
The perception of art is largely subjective. Even those who are not strong in subtleties can still form their opinion about the work in terms of the impression that it made. But in Lately it is no longer the pictures themselves that surprise, but the ways in which they are created. Some of them are so original and ambiguous that sometimes even words are not enough to convey the attitude to what is happening.
Speaking of the ways in which artists create their work, have you ever heard of microbes? For example, the English designer Natsai Audrey Chieza dyes clothes and fabrics using bacteria. One day she noticed that streptococcus bacteria, multiplying in a test tube, create a very interesting colors that would look nice on fabrics. When used as a breeding ground for bacteria in the form of herbs such as oregano and sage, unique colors and patterns are obtained. But this method today is not the strangest way to create. Shanghai-based artist Hong Yi creates portraits using stains from coffee cups, soccer balls and even socks.
Subjectivity makes us look at such creations and perceive such unusual creativity. And what about the work of Casey Jenkins, who spent 28 days knitting with the help of a vagina? How an artist wants to express himself is only up to his imagination, but fortunately, not all art forms are so extreme.
Steve Spazuk - candle soot
1. A smoker is a unique method, invented in the 30s of the last century, which allows you to create images on the canvas with the help of soot from a candle or a kerosene lamp. The drawing is brought to perfection with pencils and brushes. Even Dali was a supporter of this method.
2. Over the past 15 years, Spazuk has created several complex compositions completely from soot, including the smallest images of birds, insects and dancing figures, which he completed with feathers, flowers and fire.
Val Thompson - paint and ashes
3. Art is often associated with pleasant moments in life, but many artists find their expression in art when there is sadness or pain in their hearts. In some houses you can see portraits of deceased relatives, in others - urns with the ashes of the deceased. Sunderland-based artist Val Thompson decided to mix paint and ashes to create paintings that symbolize the final incarnation of a deceased person. Having once created such a picture, she realized that apart from her, no one is engaged in this type of art, and people like her work. Val has started her own business called Ash2Art and sells her paintings for $1,150.
Honore Fragonard - embalmed bodies
4. A 20-minute drive from the Louvre in Paris is the Fragonard Perfume Museum, which flaunts the anatomical anomalies of human bodies. It was founded in the 18th century by anatomy professor Honore Fragonard. Museum - this was the place where he studied unusual creativity- embalmed the bodies. He became the author of a unique method by which he created a famous collection of bodies with flayed skin and exposed muscles. Fragonard received bodies for experiments after executions, from medical schools and even from fresh graves. After embalming, the scientist removed the organs and arranged them in the bodies as he wanted to create a certain image or composition. He could swap organs between bodies and even insert animal organs into humans and vice versa.
5. At the end, Fragonard with the help of paints highlighted the arteries and veins. Thus, he created 700 images, but only 20 of them can be seen today in the exhibition. At one time, Fargonar taught at a veterinary school, but was fired for extraordinary and strange behavior.
Milo Muar - body art
6. Performance today is considered a modern manifestation of art and is becoming very popular. It employs such a famous Swedish artist and model as Milo Muar. She uses her body as a canvas. In 2014 she visited exhibition Art Basel in Basel. The artist went there by bus, and on the way back she stood in line for a while before boarding the bus. Why are we telling you all this, you ask? The fact is that she was completely naked, and all the clothes on her body were simply signed, including a bra and a jacket.
7. But this case does not compare with what happened to the artist at an exhibition in Cologne last August. Milo, as part of her project called “PlopEgg Painting Performance – a Birth of a Picture”, climbed a hill and, simulating childbirth, released paint-filled eggs from her vagina directly onto the canvas. Then the canvas was folded and unfolded again to make a symmetrical pattern.
Hananuma Masakishi - wood, dovetail and glue
8. Masakishi, an artist originally from China, lived in the late 19th century. When he found out that he was dying of tuberculosis, he decided to leave his girlfriend a valuable gift - his sculpture from a huge number of dark wood elements, which are connected using a special piece called a dovetail, and glue. On the body, the artist made microscopic holes to insert the hairs that he took from his head. Masakashi removed all of his teeth to implant them into the statue. He gave glasses and clothes to his statue. After the statue was exhibited in the museum, the audience could not distinguish where the real Masakashi was and where his statue was, they were so similar. The artist died 10 years later. During the 1996 California earthquake, the statue was damaged and is now kept in London.
Mark Quinn - blood sculpture
9. English sculptor Mark Quinn, a master of outrageousness, exhibited a large statue of a pregnant artist, disabled Alison Lapper, on Trafalgar Square in London. Mark also immortalized actress Kate Moss in a sculpture in one of the yoga poses (why he chose the pose in which Moss's head was wrapped around her legs and arms, no one knows). Moss Mark made another statue from 18 carat gold. In addition, he created a series of 9 sculptures about how the fetus develops inside the mother's womb. As part of the "I" project, Mark created a sculptural image of his head from 5 liters of his own blood, which he collected for 5 months. Every five years, the sculptor makes a new exhibit and calls this series "Quinn's Life Diary". The sculptor hopes that before his death he will make one, the last, of all the heads.
Millie Brown - painting with vomit
10. It sounds disgusting, but there is an artist who specializes in just this way of self-expression. Millie Brown, 27, thinks traditional methods used by artists are uninteresting and boring. So she learned to induce vomiting as needed. After swallowing tinted milk, she burps it back and creates her canvases. Before “drawing”, the artist does not eat for two days so that her stomach is completely empty. Between performances, the artist takes a month-long break. Unique method Millie was interested in Lady Gaga, and she shot her in her video. One of Millie's paintings, Nexus Vomitus, sold for $2,400 in 2011.
Vincent Castilla - paintings painted in blood
11. Castilla was born in New York and mainly paints with iron oxide. Sounds fine until you realize it's human blood. He doesn't rob graves, he doesn't kidnap people, he paints pictures with his own blood. All his works are united by one theme related to the issues of birth and life of a person, therefore, in his opinion, blood is exactly the material that will help him express his plans. The artist first sketches with a pencil and then uses blood. Calling his paintings "hemorrhages", Castilla is one of the few artists whose work is exhibited in Switzerland at the H.R. Giger.
Lani Beloso - menstrual blood
12. Lani Beloso created her painting called "Period Fragment" using menstrual blood. When the Hawaiian artist realized that doctors called her condition menorrhagia, that is, heavy periods, she decided to collect blood and use it for good. First, during menstruation, the artist sat over the canvas and the blood dripped down, creating images, then she decided to simply collect the blood, create paintings and cover them with resin. Thus, the artist created 13 paintings in chronological order. She called this series a kind of cleansing.
Laina Victor - gold
13. Layna is opposed to the use of any fluids produced by the human body to create works of art. The 28-year-old artist creates gilded works in a contemporary style that echoes the Middle Ages. Her obsession with gold led Victor to give up his film career and focus on creating art.
14. The artist uses sheets of gold rather than gilded paint. Yes, it is very expensive, but Victor says that the work must be perfect. She exhibits her works in Dubai and Nigeria.
One of the main ways we think. Its result is the education of the most general concepts and judgments (abstractions). In decorative art, abstraction is the process of stylization of natural forms.
IN artistic activity abstraction is always present; in its extreme expression fine arts it leads to abstractionism, a special trend in the visual arts of the 20th century, which is characterized by the rejection of the image of real objects, the ultimate generalization or complete rejection of form, non-objective compositions (from lines, dots, spots, planes, etc.), experiments with color , spontaneous expression inner peace the artist, his subconscious in chaotic, unorganized abstract forms (abstract expressionism). Paintings by the Russian artist V. Kandinsky can be attributed to this direction.
Representatives of some currents in abstract art created logically ordered structures, echoing the search rational organization forms in architecture and design (the Suprematism of the Russian painter K. Malevich, constructivism, etc.) Abstractionism expressed itself less in sculpture than in painting.
Abstractionism was a response to the general disharmony modern world and was successful because it proclaimed the rejection of the conscious in art and called for "giving up the initiative to forms, colors, color."
Realism
From fr. realisme, from lat. realis - real. In art in a broad sense, a truthful, objective, comprehensive reflection of reality by specific means inherent in the types of artistic creativity.
The common features of the method of realism is the reliability in the reproduction of reality. At the same time, realistic art has a huge variety of ways of cognition, generalization, artistic reflection of reality (G.M. Korzhev, M.B. Grekov, A.A. Plastov, A.M. Gerasimov, T.N. Yablonskaya, P.D. . Korin and others)
Realistic art of the XX century. acquires bright national traits and variety of forms. Realism is the opposite of modernism.
avant-garde
From fr. avant - advanced, garde - detachment - a concept that defines experimental, modernist undertakings in art. In every era, innovative phenomena arose in the visual arts, but the term "avant-garde" was established only at the beginning of the 20th century. At this time, such trends as Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Abstractionism appeared. Then, in the 20s and 30s, avant-garde positions were taken by surrealism. In the period of the 60-70s, new varieties of abstractionism are added - various forms actionism, work with objects (pop art), conceptual art, photorealism, kinetism, etc. Avant-garde artists express their own protest against traditional culture.
In all avant-garde trends, despite their great diversity, one can distinguish common features: the rejection of the norms of the classical image, formal novelty, deformation of forms, expression and various game transformations. All this leads to the blurring of the boundaries between art and reality (ready-made, installation, environment), the creation of an ideal open work art, directly invading the environment. The art of avant-garde is designed for the dialogue between the artist and the viewer, the active interaction of a person with a work of art, participation in creativity (for example, kinetic art, happening, etc.).
Works of avant-garde trends sometimes lose their pictorial origin and are equated with objects surrounding reality. Modern directions avant-gardism are closely intertwined, forming new forms of synthetic art.
underground
English underground - underground, dungeon. A concept meaning an "underground" culture that opposed itself to the conventions and limitations of traditional culture. Exhibitions of artists of this direction were often held not in salons and galleries, but directly on the ground, as well as in underground passages or the subway, which in a number of countries is called the underground (underground). Probably, this circumstance also influenced the fact that behind this trend in the art of the XX century. the name was approved.
In Russia, the concept of underground has become a designation for a community of artists representing unofficial art.
Surrealism
Fr. surrealism - super-realism. Direction in literature and art of the XX century. established in the 1920s. Originating in France on the initiative of the writer A. Breton, surrealism soon became an international trend. Surrealists believed that creative energy comes from the subconscious, which manifests itself during sleep, hypnosis, painful delirium, sudden insights, automatic actions (random wandering of a pencil on paper, etc.)
Surrealist artists, unlike abstractionists, do not refuse to depict real-life objects, but represent them in chaos, deliberately devoid of logical relationships. The absence of meaning, the rejection of a reasonable reflection of reality is the main principle of the art of surrealism. The very name of the direction speaks of isolation from real life: “sur” in French is “above”; artists did not pretend to reflect reality, but mentally placed their creations “above” realism, passing off delusional fantasies as works of art. Yes, in number surreal paintings included similar, inexplicable works by M. Ernst, J. Miro, I. Tanguy, as well as objects processed beyond recognition by the surrealists (M. Oppenheim).
The surrealistic direction, which was headed by S. Dali, was based on the illusory accuracy of reproducing an unreal image that arises in the subconscious. His paintings are distinguished by a careful manner of writing, accurate transmission of chiaroscuro, perspective, which is typical for academic painting. The viewer, succumbing to the persuasiveness of illusory painting, is drawn into a labyrinth of deceptions and unsolvable mysteries: solid objects spread, dense objects become transparent, incompatible objects twist and turn inside out, massive volumes become weightless, and all this creates an image that is impossible in reality.
This fact is known. Once at an exhibition in front of a work by S. Dali, the viewer stood for a long time, peering carefully and trying to understand the meaning. Finally, in utter desperation, he said loudly, "I don't understand what that means!" The audience's exclamation was heard by S. Dali, who was at the exhibition. “How can you understand what it means if I don’t understand it myself,” the artist said, expressing in this way the basic principle of surrealist art: to paint without thinking, without thinking, abandoning reason and logic.
Exhibitions of surrealist works were usually accompanied by scandals: the audience was indignant, looking at the ridiculous, incomprehensible paintings, they believed that they were being deceived, mystified. Surrealists blamed the audience, declared that they fell behind, did not grow up to the creativity of "advanced" artists.
General features of the art of surrealism are fantasy of the absurd, alogism, paradoxical combinations of forms, visual instability, variability of images. Artists turned to imitation primitive art, creativity of children and the mentally ill.
Artists of this trend wanted to create on their canvases a reality that did not reflect the reality prompted by the subconscious, but in practice this resulted in the creation of pathologically repulsive images, eclecticism and kitsch (German - kitsch; cheap, tasteless mass production designed for an external effect).
Some of the Surrealist finds were used in commercial areas. decorative arts, For example optical illusions, allowing you to see two different images or scenes in one picture, depending on the direction of view.
The works of the surrealists evoke the most complex associations, they can be identified in our perception with evil. Terrifying visions and idyllic dreams, riot, despair - these feelings are in various options appear in the works of the surrealists, actively influencing the viewer, the absurdity of the works of surrealism affects the associative imagination and psyche.
Surrealism is a controversial artistic phenomenon. Many really advanced cultural figures, realizing that this trend destroys art, subsequently abandoned surrealistic views (artists P. Picasso, P. Klee and others, poets F. Lorca, P. Neruda, Spanish director L. Bunuel, who made surrealistic films ). By the mid-1960s, surrealism had given way to new, even more flashy strands of modernism, but whimsical, for the most part ugly, meaningless works of the surrealists still fill the halls of museums.
Modernism
Fr. modernisme, from lat. modernus - new, modern. Collective designation for all the latest trends, trends, schools and activities of individual masters of art of the 20th century, breaking with tradition, realism and considering experiment as the basis creative method(fauvism, expressionism, cubism, futurism, abstractionism, dadaism, surrealism, pop art, op art, kinetic art, hyperrealism, etc.). Modernism is close in meaning to avant-gardism and is opposite to academism. Modernism was negatively assessed by Soviet art critics as a crisis phenomenon of bourgeois culture. Art has the freedom to choose its historical paths. The contradictions of modernism, as such, must be considered not statically, but in historical dynamics.
Pop Art
English pop art, from popular art - popular art. Direction in art Western Europe and the United States since the late 1950s. The heyday of pop art came in the turbulent 60s, when youth riots broke out in many countries of Europe and America. The youth movement did not have a single goal - it was united by the pathos of denial.
Young people were ready to throw all past culture overboard. All this is reflected in art.
A distinctive feature of pop art is the combination of challenge with indifference. Everything is equally valuable or equally priceless, equally beautiful or equally ugly, equally worthy or not worthy. Perhaps only the advertising business is based on the same dispassionately business-like attitude to everything in the world. It is no accident that it was advertising that had a huge impact on pop art, and many of its representatives worked and still work in advertising centers. The creators of commercials and shows are able to shred to pieces and combine washing powder and famous masterpiece art, toothpaste and Bach's fugue. Pop art does the same.
motives mass culture exploited by pop art in different ways. Real objects are introduced into the picture through collage or photographs, usually in unexpected or completely absurd combinations (R. Rauschenberg, E. War Hall, R. Hamilton). Painting can imitate compositional techniques and the technique of billboards, a comic book picture can be enlarged to the size of a large canvas (R. Lichtenstein). Sculpture can be combined with dummies. For example, the artist K. Oldenburg created similarities of display models of food products of huge sizes from unusual materials.
There is often no border between sculpture and painting. Piece of art pop art often not only has three dimensions, but also fills the entire exhibition space. Due to such transformations, the original image of an object of mass culture is transformed and perceived in a completely different way than in a real everyday environment.
The main category of pop art is not artistic image, but its "designation", which saves the author from the man-made process of its creation, the image of something (M. Duchamp). This process was introduced in order to expand the concept of art and include non-artistic activities in it, the "exit" of art into the field of mass culture. Pop art artists were the initiators of such forms as happening, object installation, environment and other forms concept art. Similar trends: underground, hyperrealism, op-art, ready-made, etc.
Op art
English op art, abbreviated. from optical art - optical art. A trend in the art of the 20th century, which became widespread in the 1960s. Op art artists used various visual illusions, based on the perception of flat and spatial figures. The effects of spatial movement, merging, floating forms were achieved by the introduction of rhythmic repetitions, sharp color and tonal contrasts, the intersection of spiral and lattice configurations, meandering lines. In op art, installations of changing light, dynamic constructions were often used (discussed further in the section on kinetic art). Illusions of flowing movement, a successive change of images, an unstable, continuously rebuilding form arise in op art only in the sensation of the viewer. The direction continues the technical line of modernism.
kinetic art
From gr. kinetikos - setting in motion. A trend in contemporary art associated with the widespread use of moving structures and other elements of dynamics. Kinetic like independent direction took shape in the second half of the 1950s, but it was preceded by experiments in the creation of dynamic plasticity in Russian constructivism (V. Tatlin, K. Melnikov, A. Rodchenko), Dadaism.
Earlier folk art also showed us samples of moving objects and toys, such as wooden birds of happiness from the Arkhangelsk region, mechanical toys that imitate labor processes from the village of Bogorodskoye, etc.
In kinetic art, movement is introduced in different ways, some works are dynamically transformed by the viewer himself, others - by vibrations. air environment, and still others are driven by a motor or electromagnetic forces. The variety of materials used is endless - from traditional to ultra-modern technical means, up to computers and lasers. Mirrors are often used in kinetic compositions.
In many cases, the illusion of movement is created by changing lighting - here kineticism merges with op art. Kinetic techniques are widely used in the organization of exhibitions, fairs, discos, in the design of squares, parks, public interiors.
Kineticism strives for the synthesis of arts: the movement of an object in space can be supplemented by lighting effects, sound, light music, a movie, etc.
Techniques of modern (avant-garde) art
hyperrealism
English hyperrealism. A direction in painting and sculpture that arose in the United States and became an event in the world of fine arts in the 70s of the XX century.
Another name for hyperrealism is photorealism.
Artists of this trend imitated a photo with pictorial means on canvas. They depicted the world of a modern city: shop windows and restaurants, metro stations and traffic lights, residential buildings and passers-by on the streets. At the same time, special attention was paid to shiny, light-reflecting surfaces: glass, plastic, car polish, etc. The play of reflections on such surfaces creates the impression of interpenetration of spaces.
The goal of the hyperrealists was to depict the world not just reliably, but super-likely, super-real. To do this, they used mechanical methods of copying photographs and enlarging them to the size of a large canvas (overhead projection and scale grid). The paint, as a rule, was sprayed with an airbrush in order to preserve all the features of the photographic image, to exclude the manifestation of the artist's individual handwriting.
In addition, visitors to exhibitions of this direction could meet in the halls human figures made of modern polymeric materials in full size, dressed in ready-made clothes and painted in such a way that they did not differ from the audience at all. This caused a lot of confusion and shocked people.
Photorealism has set itself the task of sharpening our perception of everyday life, symbolizing the modern environment, reflecting our time in the forms of " technical arts, widely spread precisely in our era technical progress. Fixing and exposing modernity, hiding the author's emotions, photorealism in its programmatic works found itself on the border of fine art and almost crossed it, because it sought to compete with life itself.
Readymade
English ready made - ready. One of the common techniques of modern (avant-garde) art, which consists in the fact that the subject industrial production breaks out of the usual everyday environment and is exhibited in the exhibition hall.
The meaning of the readymade is as follows: when the environment changes, the perception of the object also changes. The viewer sees in the item on the podium not a utilitarian thing, but an artistic object, the expressiveness of form and color. The name readymade was first used in 1913-1917 by M. Duchamp in relation to his "ready-made objects" (comb, bicycle wheel, bottle dryer). In the 60s, ready-made became widespread in various areas of avant-garde art, especially in Dadaism.
installation
From English. installation - installation. A spatial composition created by an artist from various elements - household items, industrial products and materials, natural objects, textual or visual information. The founders of the installation were the Dadaist M. Duchamp and the Surrealists. Creating unusual combinations of ordinary things, the artist gives them a new symbolic meaning. The aesthetic content of the installation is in the game of semantic meanings, which change depending on where the object is located - in a familiar everyday environment or in an exhibition hall. The installation was created by many avant-garde artists R. Rauschenberg, D. Dine, G. Ucker, I. Kabakov.
Installation is an art form widespread in the 20th century.
Environment
English environment - environment, environment. Extensive spatial composition, covering the viewer like a real environment, one of the forms characteristic of avant-garde art of the 60s and 70s. Naturalistic environment imitating an interior with figures of people was created by sculptures by D. Segal, E. Kienholz, K. Oldenburg, D. Hanson. Such repetitions of reality could include elements of delusional fiction. Another type of environment is a play space that involves certain actions of the audience.
Happening
English happening - happening, happening. A kind of actionism, the most common in the avant-garde art of the 60s and 70s. Happening develops as an event, rather provoked than organized, but the initiators of the action necessarily involve the audience in it. Happening originated in the late 1950s as a form of theatre. In the future, artists are most often involved in organizing happenings directly in the urban environment or in nature.
They regard this form as a kind of moving work in which environment, objects play no less a role than living participants in the action.
The action of the happening provokes the freedom of each participant and the manipulation of objects. All actions develop according to a previously planned program, in which, however, great importance is given to improvisation, which gives vent to various unconscious impulses. Happening may include elements of humor and folklore. The happening clearly expressed the desire of avant-garde to merge art with the course of life itself.
And finally, the most advanced form of contemporary art - the Superplane
Superplane
Superflat is a term coined by contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.
The term Superflat was created in order to explain the new visual language actively used by the generation of young people. Japanese artists such as Takashi Murakami: “I was thinking about the realities of Japanese drawing and painting and how they differ from Western art. For Japan, the feeling of flatness is important. Our culture is not 3D. The 2D forms established in historical Japanese painting are akin to the simple, flat visual language of modern animation, comics, and graphic design."
Art has been around for as long as humans. But the ancient rock-painting artists could hardly have imagined the strange forms modern art could take.
1. Anamorphosis
Anamorphosis is a technique for creating images that can only be fully seen and understood by looking at them from a certain angle, or from a certain place. In some cases, the correct image can only be seen by looking at a mirror image of the painting. One of the most early examples anamorphosis was demonstrated by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century. Other historical examples of this art form appeared during the Renaissance.
Over the centuries, this technique has evolved. It all started with three-dimensional images obtained on plain paper, and gradually reached street art, when artists imitate various holes in the walls, or cracks in the ground.
And the most interesting modern example- anamorphic print. One day, students Joseph Egan and Hunter Thompson, students of graphic design, applied distorted texts to the walls in the hallways of their college, which could only be read if you looked at them from a certain point.
2. Photorealism
Since the 1960s, the photorealist movement has sought to create the ultimate realistic images which were almost indistinguishable from real photographs. Copying the smallest details, fixed by the camera, photorealist artists sought to create a "picture of the picture of life."
Another movement known as super-realism (or hyper-realism) encompasses not only painting but also sculpture. Also this movement is strongly influenced by modern pop art culture. But while in pop art they try to remove everyday images from the context, photorealism, on the contrary, concentrates on images of ordinary, Everyday life recreated with the greatest possible accuracy.
The most famous photorealist artists include Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Chuck Close and sculptor Dway Hanson. The movement is very controversial among critics, who believe that mechanical skill clearly prevails over style and ideas in it.
3. Drawing on dirty cars
Drawing on the dirt that has accumulated on a car that has not been washed for a long time is also considered an art, the best representatives which tend to depict a few more banal inscriptions like "wash me."
52 year old Graphic Designer by the name of Scott Wade became very famous because of his amazing drawings, which he created using dirt on car windows.
And the artist began by using a thick layer of dust on the roads of Texas as a canvas, on the roads he drew various caricatures, and he created them with his own fingers, nails and small branches.
4. Use of body fluids in art
It may seem strange, but there are many artists who use body fluids in their work. You may have already read about this somewhere, but most likely it was just the tip of this disgusting iceberg.
For example, the Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch uses his own urine and a large number of animal blood. Such addictions arose in him as a child, which fell on the Second World War, and these addictions over the years caused controversy, there were even several lawsuits.
Another artist from Brazil named Vinicius Quesada works with his own blood and does not use animal blood. His paintings, with painful shades of red, yellow and green, convey a very dark, surreal atmosphere.
5. Drawing with parts of your own body
Not only artists using bodily fluids are on the rise. Also gaining popularity is the use of parts of one's own body as brushes. Take Tim Patch. He is better known under the pseudonym "Pricasso", which he took in honor of the great Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. He is also known for using his own penis as a brush. This 65-year-old Australian does not like to limit himself in anything, so in addition to the penis, he also uses the buttocks and scrotum to draw. Patch has been doing this unusual business for more than 10 years. And its popularity is growing year by year.
And Kira Ain Warseji uses her own breasts to paint abstract portraits. Although she is often criticized, she nevertheless remains a full-fledged artist who works daily (she also paints without using her breasts).
6. Reverse 3D images
While anamorphosis tries to make 2D objects look like 3D, 3D reverse tries to make a 3D object look like a 2D drawing.
The most notable artist in this area is Alexa Meade from Los Angeles. In her work, Meade uses non-toxic acrylic paint, with which she makes her assistants look like inanimate two-dimensional paintings. Mead began to develop this technique back in 2008, and it was presented to the public in 2009.
Meade's work is usually a person sitting against a wall, and painted in such a way that the viewer has the illusion that in front of him is an ordinary canvas with an ordinary portrait. It may take several hours to create such a work.
Another significant figure in this field is Cynthia Greig, an artist and photographer based in Detroit. Unlike Mid, Greig does not use people in his work, but ordinary household items. She covers them with charcoal and white paint to make them look flat from the outside.
7. Shadows in art
Shadows are inherently fleeting, so it's hard to say when people first started using them to create art. But modern "shadow artists" have reached unprecedented heights in the use of shadows. Artists use careful positioning of various objects in order to create beautiful shadow images of people, objects or words.
The most notable artists in this area are Kumi Yamashita and Fred Erdekens.
Of course, shadows have a somewhat creepy reputation, and many "shadow artists" use themes of horror, devastation, and urban decay in their work. Tim Noble and Sue Webster are famous for this. Their most famous work is called Dirty White Trash, in which a trash heap casts a shadow over two people who are drinking and smoking. In another work, the shadow of a bird, possibly the shadow of a raven, is seen pecking at a pair of severed heads impaled on stakes.
8 Reverse Graffiti
Like painting on dirty cars, "reverse graffiti" involves creating a painting by removing excess dirt, rather than by adding paint. Artists often use powerful washers to remove grime from walls and in the process create beautiful images. It all started with artist Paul "Muse" Curtis, who painted his first painting on a nicotine-blackened wall of a restaurant where he washed dishes.
Another notable artist is Ben Long from the UK, who practices a somewhat simplified version of "reverse graffiti" by using his own finger to remove grime from car exhausts on walls. His drawings last surprisingly long, up to six months, provided they are not washed away by rain or destroyed by vandals.
9. Body art illusions
Literally everyone has been engaged in drawing on the body for many centuries. Even the ancient Egyptians and Mayans tried their hand at this. However, illusion body art takes this ancient practice to a whole new level. As the name implies, body art illusion involves using the human body as a canvas, but on the canvas this creates something that can deceive the observer. Illusions on the body can range from people being painted as animals or machines to images of holes or wounds gaping in the body.
10. Painting with light
Oddly enough, the very first practitioners of light painting did not perceive it as art. Frank and Lillian Gilbreth dealt with the problem of increasing the efficiency of industrial workers. In 1914, the couple began using light and a camera to record some of the movements of people. By studying the resulting light patterns, they hoped to find ways to make the work of the staff easier and simpler.
And in art, this method began to be used in 1935, when the surrealist artist Man Ray used a camera with an open shutter to take pictures of himself standing in streams of light. For a very long time, no one guessed what kind of light curls are depicted in the photo. And only in 2009 it became clear that this was not a set of random light curls, but a mirror image of the artist's signature.
Nowadays, in order to see inspiring works art You don't have to go to the museum. The Internet has made it possible for people to appreciate and enjoy art, providing an endless stream of masterpieces. However, finding what excites you is another matter entirely. Need to reconsider different types arts such as artwork, sculpture, photography and installations. And it is not easy at all and takes a lot of time. Therefore, today we will present to your attention some of the most popular trends in art in last years. From book sculptures to breathtaking installations, these are exactly the trends that people can't stop admiring.
1. Sculptures and installations from books
From the incredible book sculptures by From Brian Dettmer and Guy Laramee to the crumbling wall sculpture by Anouk Kruithof and the intricate igloo by Miller Lagos. Never before have books been so popular in art. As more and more people are switching to e-books, these works of art are doubly valued. They are a welcome reminder that, despite the fact that we live in the age of the Internet, books will always have a special place.
2. Beautiful umbrella installations
Umbrellas often lie in the closet until it rains, but lately they have been showing up more and more in various installations Worldwide. Portuguese umbrellas of all colors of the rainbow, a pink installation in Bulgaria - this is not to keep people from getting wet, but to show how art can be created from ordinary objects.
3. Interactive street art
Street art is created not only for social or political purposes, but simply to please passers-by. From children riding Ernest Zacharevic's bikes to Panya Clark's subway stairs, these installations are built for interactivity. On purpose or even without knowing it, passers-by become part of the art, bringing a new dimension to an already interesting work.
4. Creativity made from thousands of things
Creativity, created from a thousand things, is always interesting. A flowing river from Luzinterruptus' books, a bright red bird created from Ran Hwang's buttons and pins, these installations show us what thousands of things can look like in the hands of patient creators. Who knew that a pixelated portrait could be made with pointillist pencils if it wasn't for Christian Faur? This good example ingenuity in art.
5. Epic sculptures from Lego
While plastic bricks for kids are a classic Lego product, some designers are using them to create epic sculptures. These amazing sculptures built very carefully, brick by brick - the Victorian scary house, Batman's underground cave, the Roman Colosseum, the Star Wars house - they all amaze the imagination.
6. Creativity in all colors of the rainbow
One- or two-color creations are boring - how about creations that combine all the colors of the rainbow! The creators of these installations know how to make you smile. Christopher Janney's rainbow-windowed aisle or Olaf Breuning's multicolored smoke bombs are not just beautiful to look at, they have to be experienced. Even origami and toy cars look more entertaining when arranged in a rainbow of colors.
7. Sets of little people
These photos show us how little people live. Food scenes by Christopher Boffoli or mini-kits on the streets by designer Slinkachu, these cute creations tell the story funny stories Lilliputians who will understand and ordinary people. This is real art, making us feel what we have never felt.
8. Thousands of LED bulbs
These installations and sculptures are best viewed at night or in a dark room. With the help of smoke and a laser, Li Hu created a creepy bed that causes mixed feelings. Makoto Tojiki hangs light bulbs on ropes, creating magnificent light sculptures people, horses and birds. Panasonic floated 100,000 LED bulbs down the river to recreate the glow of fireflies.
9. Thread installations
Not only grandmothers use threads. Recently, more and more often they are used over vintage photographs or sculptures. Designer Perspicere pulled the threads so that they mimic paint splatters in the shape of Batman's signal. Gabriel Dawe created a stunning installation in all the colors of the rainbow by attaching a huge number of skeins of thread to the ceiling. Apparently, the threads in the design are relevant now.
10. Exciting interactive installations
Although street installations can be very good, when a designer works within four walls, this allows him to spread out wider. French designer Serge Salat invites visitors to walk through the many layers of Beyond, a multimedia experience that combines oriental art with the Western Renaissance. Yayoi Kusama shows what happens when children are given an unlimited supply of colorful stickers. The barbican in London has recently created a rainy room where visitors won't get wet. Who wouldn't want to visit one of these installations?
