Artists of the past could hardly imagine what strange forms contemporary art would take.
And this took the following forms:
1. Anamorphosis. This kind contemporary art implies a drawing technique that can be fully understood by looking at it only from a certain place or from a certain angle. Some paintings can only be seen by looking at them in a mirror. This art form appeared during the time of Leonardo da Vinci (15th century).
Over the centuries, anamorphosis has developed in modern form looks like street art. With this kind of drawings, artists really imitate cracks in the ground, or holes in the walls.
Work by István Oros
2. Photorealism. This type of art originated in the 60s of the last century, and artists tried to reproduce so realistic images, which would not differ from the photograph. The smallest details captured by the camera created a “picture of the picture of life”. Critics are ambivalent about photorealism, some of them believe that the mechanical production of art objects rather prevails over ideas and style.
3. Drawings on dirty cars. Professionals of this type of art do not seek to depict a banal inscription “wash me” on a dirty car. Specialists use special brushes and brushes for their work. In this area, the 52nd Scott Wade is considered the leading master ( Graphic Designer). He created many original and amazing drawings using nothing but dirt on car windows. By the way, he started by using a layer of dust on Texas roads as a canvas. There he drew caricatures using small branches and his own fingers.
Today, Wade is invited to promote his products by large corporations and art exhibitions.
Scott Wade's work
4. The use of body fluids for the production of works of art. This is naturally strange, but many artists use their body fluids in their work. Any educated person heard about it, but 100% what he heard about is just "the tip of an unpleasant iceberg."
For example, Hermann Nitsch, Austrian artist, uses its urine or the blood of cattle for work. These addictions appeared during the Second World War, when he was a child. And now, because of his addiction to unusual look art, he was brought to justice several times.
Brazilian artist Vinicius Quesada uses only his own blood in his works, without resorting to the blood of animals. His paintings have a sickly shade of green, yellow and red and are expressed in a very dark surreal atmosphere.
Hermann Nitsch and his work
5. Paintings with my own body. In contemporary art, not only artists who use their own body fluids to produce paintings are popular. Quite famous and in demand are masters who write works with their own bodies.
Kira Ain Warseji creates abstract portraits using your chest. She has been criticized quite a lot for this. However, this woman is a full-fledged artist who works according to the classical scheme, using paints and brushes.
Is there some more strange artists who, instead of a brush, use parts of the body that are completely unintended for this purpose. For example, Ani K. - draws with his tongue and Stephen Marmer ( school teacher) - draws buttocks.
"Ani K at work"
6. 3D image. by the most famous artist in this area there is a Los Angeles master Mead Alexa. His work uses non-toxic acrylic paint, making his assistants look like inanimate two-dimensional paintings. Mead presented his technique to the public in 2009. Another significant figure in the field is Detroit artist and photographer Cynthia Greig. In her works of art, she uses ordinary and practical household items, rather than people. She covers them with white paint or charcoal. From this, things from the side look flat and two-dimensional.
One of the works of Alexa Meade
7. Art and shadows. It is not known exactly when mankind began to use the shadow for works of art. But, in spite of everything, contemporary artists have reached unprecedented heights. Masters use shadows to position various objects and even to create shadow images of words, objects and people.
Shadow art has a slightly creepy reputation, however, this does not prevent "shadow artists" from using this style to develop themes of devastation, decline, horror.
The work of the artist Teodosio Aurea
8. "Reverse graffiti". This art form involves the creation of paintings by removing dirt, but without adding paint. Very often, artists use washing machines, removing dirt from the facades of houses, while creating beautiful works art. This type art by the public is considered quite controversial, which is why people who engage in "reverse graffiti" almost always have clashes with the police.
The work of the artist Moose
9. Body art illusions. Mankind has been engaged in drawing on the body literally since its inception. Both the Maya and the ancient Egyptians practiced body art. This type of art involves using the human body as a canvas on which to create a work of art capable of different angles deceive the observer. Illusions on the body can look like a wound, a car or an animal. Japanese master Hikaru Cho became famous for drawing on human body cartoon characters.
Artwork by Hikaru Cho
10. Drawing with light. Drawing with light began to be used in 1914, for practical purposes - in production, the authorities recorded the movement of workers. After working through the data, employees either quit or looked for ways to find an easier way for staff to work.
In 1935, the surrealist artist Man Ray used an open-shutter camera to photograph himself standing in streams of light. For quite a long time, no one could guess what kind of light curls were displayed in the photo. Only in 2009, thanks to technical progress it became clear that these were not random curls, but a mirror image of the signature of the artist himself.
Art has existed much longer than human civilization, perhaps as long as there is a reasonable person. But it is unlikely that our ancient ancestors, depicting something on the walls of caves, thought that someday there would be very strange forms of expression of art.
10. Anamorphoses
Anamorphosis is a way of conveying an image that is generally perceived only at a certain distance or at a certain angle. In some cases, you can read the inscription only in a mirror image. The first attempts to use anamorphosis were made by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century. Several attempts date back to the Renaissance, including Hans Holbein Jr.'s "The Ambassadors" and the marvelous frescoes by Andrea Pozzo on the vault of the church of St. Ignatius in Rome.
Over the centuries, techniques have evolved from 3D format on paper to street art, which simulates holes or splits in the ground. The most successful technique was the use of anamorphoses in printing. A prime example is a successful attempt by students Joseph Egan and Hunter Thompson to decorate the walls in the hallway of the college with distorted texts that can only be read while standing with right side. Chicago designer Thomas Quinn inspired students with his work, and they tried to embody them.
9. Photorealism
In the early 1960s, photorealists sought to create images that looked like real photographs. The camera is able to capture even the smallest details, and the photorealist artist is able to create an "image of the image of life." This direction, which also includes sculpture, is known as "super-realism" or "hyper-realism". It focuses on energy Everyday life transmission as accurately as possible.
Photorealists such as Richard Eastes, Audrey Flack, Robert Bechtle, Chuck Close and sculptor Dwayne Hanson created very realistic works that the viewer began to think that real objects could be a fake. Critics are not interested in this trend, as they consider it the field of technology, not art.
8. Art on a dirty car
It is unlikely that the inscription, for example, "Wash me" on the body of a dirty car can be considered great art. But 52-year-old American graphic artist Scott Wade has become famous for his amazing drawings on dusty car windows. He created his cartoon stories simply with his finger or wand. Today the artist uses paint and brush to create more complex plots.
Wade's works participate in exhibitions, advertising companies use his services. Since the author works with glass surfaces, on which it is necessary to have several layers of dirt, he uses oil and a hair dryer in his work to ensure durability. Soon no one will be washing cars.
7. Use of human waste products in art
Many artists use fluids produced by the human body to create their work. For example, Australian artist Herman Nitzch uses the urine and blood of animals. The plots of his works, inspired by the events experienced in childhood associated with the Second World War, cause a lot of controversy and litigation.
An artist from Brazil, Vinicius Quesada, is known for his "bloody" series called "Blood Piss Blues". The artist uses only his own blood, refusing donor and animal blood. His work is oversaturated with yellows, reds and greens to create a harsh, surreal atmosphere. On one of the most famous works“Mr. Monkey” features a monkey wearing glasses made from a Nintendo game console smoking a cigar.
6. Pictures painted by different parts of the body
Artists use very unusual materials to paint pictures, but they do not stop there and move on to painting techniques. different parts body. 65-year-old Australian artist Tim "Pricasso" Patcha, who painted with his manhood, but the most interesting thing is that the popularity of the artist Lately is growing.
No less outrageous artist Kira Ain Warszegi used her chest as a brush when painting portraits. This approach has been criticized. However, she is on high level can draw and traditional way. Ani K painted pictures with his tongue, and Stephen Mermer, a school teacher, painted pictures with his buttocks, for which he was fired from school.
5. Reverse 3D image
While anamorphists are trying to achieve the perception of two-dimensional images as three-dimensional, a reverse trend has appeared when a 3D image is wanted to be presented as two-dimensional. In this area, the artist Alexa Mead has become especially famous. In order for the objects in the picture to look like lifeless, the artist uses acrylic paints. She has been working on this technique since 2008. The first works were presented to the public already in 2009. Basically, Mead's paintings depict a man sitting on a chair against an unpainted wall. It took several hours to create a picture.
Another well-known specialist in this field can be considered Cynthia Greig, an artist and photographer who lives in Detroit. In her paintings, she depicts ordinary everyday objects, covers them with white paint and charcoal to create the illusion of flatness.
Shadow, a natural phenomenon, and it is difficult to say when people decided to use it to create art objects, but modern specialists have achieved a lot in this area. They arranged objects in such a way that the shadow created images of people, different places and words. Notable professionals include Kumi Yamashita and Fred Eerdekens. Shadows are often associated with something sinister, and many artists, including Tim Noble and Sue Webster, use them to create the illusion of fear in their work. Notable among their works is the "Dirty White Trash" installation, in which they used a pile of rubbish to create images of a smoker and a drinker in the shadows. In another installation, the shadow forms the image of a raven, which “lunches” with heads put on colas. Rashad Alakbarov uses bright, colored glass and creates absolutely non-gloomy shadow images on empty walls.
The technique of reverse graffiti is exactly the opposite of the technique of painting on dirt on cars - in this case, the dirt must be removed while creating an image. With the help of washers, artists wash car exhaust deposits from the walls, creating beautiful images or patterns. The ancestor of this direction is Paul Curtis "Moose". A similar idea came to his mind when he worked in a restaurant as a dishwasher and saw the walls sooty with cigarette smoke.
ben Log, British artist, who is an advocate for a less technological approach to reverse graffiti than Curtis. Long's temporary images, created with just a finger on the windshield of a car, are quite durable and can last up to 6 months if they are not washed away by rain or an ill-wisher intervenes. Surprisingly, the attitude to the new type of graffiti is different. Several times the police detained Paul Curtis for "writing with a stick in the sand," as the artist himself says.
2. Illusions of body art
Drawings on the body today will not surprise anyone, and in the past, too, since the Mayan tribes, Egyptians, etc. were the first in this art. Today it is experiencing new round development. The illusion of body art lies in a 3D image that looks quite realistic - from people painted like animals to realistic holes in the arms.
Hikaru Cho, famous Japanese artist body art, specializes in cartoon plots. Artists Johannes Stötter and Trin Merry specialize in the art of camouflage.
In 1935, the method migrated to the realm of art thanks to the artist Man Ray, who filmed his movement surrounded by lights with a camera. At first no one gave special significance swirls of light in the photographs, but in 2009 it turned out that this mirror reflection artist's signature. The followers of Maine, the artists Gyon Mil Henri Matisse, Barbara Morgan, Jack Delano and even Pablo Picasso tried their hand at light graphics. contemporary artists Michael Bosanko, Trevor Williams, and Jana Leonardo have also taken a liking to something that is closely intertwined with science.
Now it is very fashionable to discuss "modern art" and its figures, and everyone considers it their duty to discuss this topic.
Mani-art (English money-art) - the art of creating applications from banknotes.
Of course, money is not the most profitable material in terms of a riot of colors.
book carving is an art created by Brian Ditmer that uses books as a source material, from which applications are created using a surgical scalpel.
Aerography - this is a special direction in the visual arts, which differs from others in the use of a special device, an airbrush (a small pneumatic tool, arranged according to the principle of a spray gun, with which the artist applies coloring matter).
The airbrush is capable of spraying liquid paint of any kind, so it has found its use in creating paintings on a wide variety of surfaces. It can be paper surfaces, canvas, wood, plastic, concrete structures, building walls, the human body and, of course, metal. Therefore, it is not surprising that airbrushing has become the most widespread in the design of cars.
Spray paint art-spray drawings that are applied to cardboard, wood, special thick paper.
In fact, spray painting is the “offspring” of airbrushing, but it has some purely artistic features. The theme of spray drawings is peculiar: as a rule, fantastic or even surreal landscapes - space, alien, etc.
In addition, the very process of creating masterpieces in the spray paint genre is an exciting "street" show that gathers dozens of spectators. The art of spray painting originated in Europe and has now come to Russia.
body art(body art)- one of the forms of art, where the human body becomes the main object of creativity, and the content is revealed with the help of non-verbal language: postures, gestures, facial expressions, signs, “decorations” applied to the body. The object of body art can also be drawings, photos, videos and body models.
Anime - Japanese animation. Unlike cartoons in other countries, which are mainly intended for viewing by children, most of produced anime is designed for teenage and adult audiences, and largely due to this, it has a high popularity in the world. Anime is distinguished by a characteristic manner of drawing characters and backgrounds. Published in the form of television series, as well as films. Plots can describe many characters, differ in a variety of places and eras, genres and styles. The source for anime plots is often manga.
Manga - japanese comics, sometimes called comedian. Manga, in the form in which it currently exists, begins to develop after the end of World War II, having experienced a strong influence Western tradition, however, has deep roots in earlier Japanese art.
In Japan, manga is read by people of all ages, it is respected as a form visual arts, And How literary phenomenon, therefore, there are many works of various genres and on a wide variety of topics: adventure, romance, sports, history, humor, Science fiction, horror, business and others.
Not every person can understand true works of art. But, here there are truly amazing and strange works of masters who fell in love with the public.
We have prepared for you a list of the 10 most strange works art, which can be found below.
- Opening our selection is Onememt Vi, which is valued at $43.8 million. Created by New York-based abstract artist Barnett Newman, the artwork was sold in 2013 at Sotheby's. The painting, measuring 2.6 by 3 meters, was painted in 1953, which depicts a dark blue background with a vertical stripe blue color right in the middle. This last picture of 6 created by the artist
- Zhu Cheng is considered to be a talented sculptor who helped Chinese students create the sculpture of Venus de Milo. Everything can be understood, but the creation itself consists entirely of excrement. One Swiss collector decided to purchase the piece for $45,000. So that visitors do not feel bad smell, the statue is in a glass box.
- Andreas Gursky had no idea when he took the picture of Rein in 1999 that the picture would fetch $4.3 million. This is the most dear photo sold at auction in New York. Maybe the buyer was attracted perfectly straight lines and dull boring weather? Only the buyer knows the answer to this question.
- Have you ever seen human hair leaves? Shereos Janine creates such items using human hair, sewing, twisting and joining them together. To bind the hairs, it is necessary to use water-soluble materials.
- Look at the sculptures that are made from a pile of rubbish. If you direct light at them, then clear images of people appear. Masters Webster Sue and Nobel Tim use in the process of creation various materials: wood, metal. As a result, recognizable images are obtained from the garbage.
- Talented artist Jane Perkins creates real masterpieces from plastic. She selects shades using the most small parts, creating works in 3d format. She managed to create a reproduction of the Girl with a Pearl Earring, a portrait of Mona Lisa, Queen Elizabeth II and US President Barack Obama.
- Funny figures are created by a talented Japanese sculptor Sayaki Hans. The material used is plastic. The master claims that each creation has its own soul, which he breathes into the created works. In all works, the dynamics of movement is clearly expressed.
- Erica Simmons creates celebrity portraits from cassette tape. The material used is a cassette tape with recordings of the singers themselves. Externally, the creations look more than convincing and deserve attention.
- Brian Detmer came up with an original purpose for the books. He creates sculptures from them, sealing the edges and creating monolithic structures. Then, with the help of tweezers and surgical knives, images are cut out.
- Jim Reinders decided to recreate the famous Stonehenge, located in the UK. An American sculptor built a full-scale replica using cars. It took him exactly 38 machines to create Carhenge. Maybe future descendants will consider this an observatory?
Amazing works of art are created all over the world, but here are just a few of them that attract the attention of the public and become popular. Maybe you also create some unusual and original sculptures, paintings, remaining in the shadows. In an instant, your life can turn upside down, and your hobby will bring fame and money. It is enough just to believe in what you are doing, and success will surely come. If you are doing unusual creativity, share in the comments.
As is known, creative people a little out of this world ... Pictures of some famous or shocking with their entanglement either hit at the price for the usual black square. But artists who create in the styles of our list are more likely to introduce you at a loss.
Body parts drawing
Incredibly, some artists use parts your body instead of a brush. From the arms and legs, to the chest and even the tongue! There are of course people who use more intimate parts of the body, but let's not go into such depth ... Oddly enough, but the popularity of such idiosyncratic artists only increases.
Body fluids instead of paints
Waste Products organisms are used to create a background, and the very blood to complete the details. Most artists discovered their attraction to such art during the second world war. Some psychologists attribute this to a mental disorder and childhood trauma. But the artist, dipping himself in the blood of animals, defies reasonable explanation... By the way, several times they were brought against him criminal proceedings.
Dirty cars instead of canvas
Although not the cleanest, but clearly much more pleasant art than previous candidates. Agree, it is much more pleasant to see a beautiful drawing on the back window of the car than the banal "Wash me!", Or generally obscene language. Moreover, the drawings are not inferior world masterpieces.
Photorealism
At last we have reached art in literally this word. Artists this style focuses not on outrage or scandal, but exclusively on your skill. The point is to create a drawing as similar as possible to photograph. The detailing is amazing, because you can see everything: from individual hairs to needles on spruce.
Anamorphosis
The proud representative of modern art boasts a truly amazing variety of variations. Any joint several surfaces can become a canvas for the artist of this style. The task is to distort drawing or inscription so that it can be seen only at a certain angle.
