
I’ve been hearing about gnomes A LOT lately – even garden gnomes! – in the context of paranormal and horror stories. This painting by Woodrow White sums up the mood of this trend very well. Here is the video-inspo for the painting.

I’ve been hearing about gnomes A LOT lately – even garden gnomes! – in the context of paranormal and horror stories. This painting by Woodrow White sums up the mood of this trend very well. Here is the video-inspo for the painting.
Hide & Seek is a painting by Pavel Fyodorovich Tchelitchew, a Russian surrealist artist, that has gained a cult following of people who love to stare at it while taking Peyote.
This is a work made by Memo Atken in 2009, but I just discovered it and it’s lovely!
“iScream consists of 16x iPhone applications that do absolutely nothing. Each one has a custom icon, which is a small section of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”. Using the iPhone’s built in home layout interface, one can jumble up or re-align the tiles until the original painting is revealed; locked behind the iPhone home screen with the icon spacing acting as black cage bars.”

Robbie Barrat‘s AI-generated nude paintings make Francis Bacon look like a genteel pre-Raphaelite [via]

Amazing paintings by Paco Pomet…

“Working both inside and outside of the software, the auratic labor of painting becomes an act of observance and intervention.”

Paintings by New York-based artist Jeanette Hayes. More here and here.

[found here]

Digital collages made from northern and early renaissance paintings by Scorpion Dagger…
Benjameme is a project by Lauren Kaelin: “an excuse to paint the internet; inspired by Walter Benjamin and the Ikea Monkey“.

“Using over 7,500 lines of code, hacker/artist Jay Salvat created this surprisingly detailed reproduction of da Vinci’s Mona Lisa with nothing but cascading style sheets. It’s about as modern as modern art can get.”
[via gizmodo]


Sandro Kopp is a painter that works primarily on portraits painted from Skype conversations.
[via coolhunting]


Copyrights (2011- Ongoing) is a project by Phil Thompson:
“The Google Art Project contains several paintings which have had a blur filter applied to them so as to make them unrecognisable. Google explain this decison stating that they were, ‘required to be blurred by the museums for reasons pertaining to copyrights.’
After collecting all of these images by taking screenshots and cropping out the blurred images, they were emailed to oil painting reproduction companies in China (chosen for its own issues with internet censorship and for its ongoing difficulties with Google), where they were painted to the scale of the original painting. These reproductions were shipped back to the UK and now become the art work.”

(via EPICponyz)
“Jordan Laws of ScreenWerks created a dubstep remix of ‘Hard In Da Paint’ by Waka Flocka Flame featuring the legendary painter and art instructor Bob Ross, host of the PBS show ‘The Joy of Painting’.”
(via Laughing Squid)
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Redditor smsilton says it took him 150 shots and over two hours to capture this image of a water drop in front of an MC Escher painting…
(via Dangerous Minds)

(Via Is That All There Is?)

Replaced Mona Lisa is a work by Mike Ruiz:
“The Mona Lisa with the lady selected then put through Content-Aware Fill (a Photoshop CS5 tool that automatically generates content based on the existing surrounding content of the image and fills in selected area). The resulting image is a potential landscape as interpreted by the software. The image was sent to an painting manufacturer in China where an oil painting was produced.”

Harvest, interrupted
or, trying to view Breughel in Hi Res with other six applications running
2011
(via)

Yuri Zupancic says his microchip paintings are an homage to the tradition of miniature painting, informed by the “smaller and faster…catchphrase of commodities.” He makes some of his brushes from his own eyelashes.

Vi sarà capitato di vederla. Digitate male un indirizzo internet, finite su un dominio che ha un nome simile, ma non proprio identico, e spesso compare lei, la studentessa bionda. Per qualche motivo, è diventata una specie di tradizione quella di mettere la sua foto sulle home page dei “domini parcheggiati” (ossia comprati ma non utilizzati, o utilizzati solo per piazzare pubblicità), una pratica che si chiama domain parking, in alcuni casi typo squatting.
La fotografia, scaricata da una delle tante “banche” di immagini disponibili online (in questo caso, iStockPhoto) ha circolato talmente tanto da spingere molti a fare delle ricerche sulla ragazza, sullo scatto e sulle ragioni della sua onnipresenza. Le prime notizie vengono date dallo stesso fotografo, Dustin Steller, che esce allo scoperto dichiarando di aver uploadato l’immagine nella banca dati di iStockphoto nel 2005 e aggiungendo che la ragazza nell’immagine non è altro che sua sorella Hanna (“è sposata felicemente”, precisa, rispondendo alle decine di ragazzi che si dichiaravano suoi pretendenti).

A spiegare il perché di tanta diffusione, ci pensa questo sito, che individua come responsabile la Demand Media, un’azienda americana che ha come core business proprio quello di acquistare domini e parcheggiarci un sacco di pubblicità sopra. Una pratica molto vicina allo spam, ma del tutto legale. Pare che sia stata proprio la Demand Media a piazzare la studentessa bionda in centinaia di siti, seguita poi da molti altri.
Naturalmente, la diffusione virale di un’immagine porta con sè un effetto collaterale inevitabile: l’appropriazione e la reinterpretazione della stessa. E così via a parodie e versioni modificate. Poi, qualche volta, arrivano anche gli artisti. Il californiano Parker Ito, con una classica operazione da artista “Post Internet”, e non senza dichiarate influenze warholiane, ha deciso di commissionare una serie di dipinti tratti dalla famosa fotografia tramite orderartwork.com, un sito cinese che fa “oil paintings on demand”. Un’icona sconosciuta, dipinta su commissione da pittori sconosciuti.
