Objets d'art Intéressants (Interesting Art Objects)

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3D Street Art (Paintings)​

3d Street Art, often known as 3d chalk art is 2-dimensional artwork drawn on the street itself that gives you a 3-dimensional optical illusion from a certain perspective. It can be very breathtaking, realistic and at the same time captivating once you get the angle correct. And creating one is certainly through and challenging as you are creating a realistic 3d view out of a 2d painting.

Here are a few examples



Hot River

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Asian Paints - Mumbai

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T-Com

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Escape Of The Mummy

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A Fair In Cologne

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Creative Benches And Seats​

Many things shape the face of a city: buildings, bridges, parks, sculptures... even benches! That's right, this simple form of public furniture can also add more emotion to a particular site. Here are a few I found interesting.

Pencil Bench




Typewriter Bench





The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe Bench

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Salvator Mundi was painted by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Louis XII of France but ended up in the British Isles by way of a royal marriage a couple of decades later. It disappeared from historical records in the 18th century during which it was damaged and badly restored which rendered it no longer recognizable as a Leonardo. Sold at auction in 1904 and then again in 1958, selling for the modest sum of forty-five British pounds.

It was sold once again in the US in 2005 to a consortium of dealers led by Robert Simon for around $10,000. Simon, a New York fine art dealer specializing in Renaissance works, suspected it was worth much more than that, though he dared not yet dream it might be the lost Leonardo. Years of restoration work brought out the Leonardo concealed beneath the third-rate overpainting. It then sold for $75 million in 2013 and right away again for $127.5 million. Finally, just last October,*Salvator Mundi was purchased by a Saudi prince (on behalf of the Louvre Abu Dhabi) for $450.3 million dollars, making it the most expensive artwork ever sold to date.

 

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The Skylab space station, illustrated by Ed Valigursky in Popular Mechanics, December 1970.

 

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Someone painted a rock to look like a shark.

 

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Bitcoin statue (Kranj, Slovenia)

The Slovenian city of Kranj has installed a giant circular Bitcoin logo near the city center, making it the first official monument dedicated to the world’s first decentralized cryptocurrency.

 

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The beautiful and mind-bending illusions in Canadian artist Robert Gonsalves’ paintings have a fun way of twisting your perception and causing you to question what in his paintings, if anything, is real.

Most of his stunning paintings have an unclear boundary between the multiple stories they tell, which forces the viewer to jump back and forth between them.


Here are a few examples








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They are brilliant, like our dream world leaking through to everyday wakefulness

 

[haiducii]

Trier, Germany

The home town of influential communist thinker Karl Marx is celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth with new pedestrian lights.

 

[trencherman]

This reminds me of a cartoon I saw a long time ago (probably from the New Yorker) of a visitor of a medieval stone carver in his workshop chockfull of finished gargoyles. Caption: Where do you get your ideas?

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[trencherman]

An auspicious symbol in Chinese art, 卍 wàn here done on
life-preserving cruciferous veggies.

 

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Airplane Wall Decal

 

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