A Potpourri of Street Art Whimsy
Another large art element in public places is the RedBall Project, created by American artist Kurt Perschke. This traveling, award-winning public art piece is considered âthe worldâs longest-running street art work,â and has been […]
Read More→Super-sized Art
Further proof â if proof is needed â of Australiansâ quirky sense of humor is the nearly cult status of Australiaâs Big Things, upon which road trips are sometimes centered. The Big Things of […]
Read More→Trompe Lâoeil
As we noted in the last blog entry, Tineke Meirink takes photos of frequently unattractive industrial elements and enhances those photos with paints. The artists who focus on trompe lâoeil (fool the eye art) […]
Read More→Do You See What I See?
The curb painting at left came to me years ago as a Twitter feed from Wilson da Silva (@wilsondasilva) with the caption âStreet art doesnât have to be large and towering to have an […]
Read More→Street Artists – The Eyes Have It
This third series of 5 improv artists blogs is focused on street artists. We took you outdoors for most of the last series on light, and because fresh air is good for body and […]
Read More→Lighting the Path
Dutch Artist Dan Roosegaarde paid a fascinating tribute to Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Starry Night by creating a bike path in Eindhoven. Itâs a town where Van Gogh lived for about three years of […]
Read More→Light in the Forest
Itâs one thing to project light onto a building and quite another to light up a forest. We are all used to the beauty of holiday lights on all sorts of trees â I […]
Read More→Lighting Up the Opera House
With this post I am starting another Improv Art series, this time on creating art with light. The variety is stunning. Among the most crowd pleasing in part because of the sheer size of […]
Read More→Carl Warner loves his vegetables
English photographer Carl Warner first crossed my path sometime before his first coffee table book Food Landscapes was published in 2010. He said then that his initial intent was to make eating vegetables more […]
Read More→The Decorators
Terrarium cakes â cakes covered in butter frosting that resembles the plants found in a terrarium â are most famously the work of Jakarta-based pastry chef Iven Kawi, known on Instagram as IvenOven. She began […]
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