We previously featured another piece created by Andrew Myers called An Artist’s Winter. He has traditionally used an very unlikely medium for his artwork – painted screws. That makes this work the first of its kind for Andrew. Myers created this composite portrait using broken recycled wood pieces. He meticulously arranged, painted, attached to steel […]
World-renowned Chinese artist Liu Bolin has created a new work for a solo exhibition called Art Hacker. One of the works from this series included re-creating da Vinci’s classical masterpiece, the Mona Lisa. Instead of using paints on a traditional medium, Bolin uses scores of human bodies as his canvas. A press release promoting this […]
Brazlian artist Vik Muniz is no stranger to transforming trash and other discard items into beautiful works of art. We previously featured a video in which Muniz used hand-torn scraps of paper from magazines to recreate Van Gogh’s The Starry Night. In 2012, Muniz created a series of composite artworks under a series titled Scrap […]
Photographer Jan von Holleben created this piece for the internal magazine of a major notorious power company. The recognizable symbol for recycling is made completely from trash and other discarded items. In the article for the magazine, Holleben illustrated the travels of waste and its sticky handling within the European Union. He points out that […]
In this video, Brazilian visual artist and photographer Vik Muniz shares his process for creating intricate collages based on images that “are already part of our collective visual memory.” This series, titled “Pictures of Magazines”, features his replica of Vincent Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” from hand-torn scraps from magazines. Muniz was featured in 2010’s […]
Have you ever wondered what Einstein might look like if he were made from around 1,000 colored pencils? Maybe you haven’t, but here is one artist’s interpretation.
Andrew Myers creates portraits using an unlikely medium – screws. In this early, experimental screw piece that measures 2 feet x 2 feet, he transformed thousands of screws, oil paint, and phonebook pages into a self-portrait expressing the difficult feelings he was experiencing at that time. He notes that when he created this particular piece, […]
