Beijing-based artist Ye Hongxing created a Mandala made from plastic toys, beads and stickers, called 'Prajñāpāramitā', which means the Buddhist concept of Perfection of (Transcendent) Wisdom.
Showing posts with label Beads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beads. Show all posts
Kitchen and Backyard by Liza Lou
American visual artist Liza Lou produce this large scale sculpture using tiny glass beads.
In this installations, she produced a full room-sized sculpture covered entirely with the small, colorful beads that she painstakingly hand-glued one-by-one with tweezers.
The 168 square feet installation took five years to make and contains more than 30 million beads.
Check her website: http://www.lizalou.com/
In this installations, she produced a full room-sized sculpture covered entirely with the small, colorful beads that she painstakingly hand-glued one-by-one with tweezers.
The 168 square feet installation took five years to make and contains more than 30 million beads.
Check her website: http://www.lizalou.com/
Beaded Art by Jan Huling
New York artist Jan Huling turns common objects extraordinary with beautiful beading patterns.
"My three-dimensional collages combine found objects with surface design, sometimes touching on narrative themes. I’m also drawn to religious and political icons, inspired by a continuing fascination with indigenous or popular culture and world religions. By juxtaposing these icons with an eclectic assortment of objects, the viewer is challenged to consider common images within an altered context."
"In each of my constructions, surface design is the key component. Czech seed beads adorn objects in colorful patterns, camouflaging their original circumstance, allowing us to see them as pure form without their usual connotations. The process is slow and meticulous, zen-like, with the choice of forms motivating color schemes and iconography."
"Certain themes continue to resonate for me. The dolls I frequently include in my constructions explore dreams of childhood while removing them from the realm of cherished playthings. For me, musical instruments represent the lyrical joy that music imparts to our lives and hearkens back to youthful dreams of virtuosity. Birds, in their quicksilver beauty, represent ultimate freedom."
The process requires a lot of patience. First she strings together a combination of beads, then applies the pattern to the object using glue from a syringe. Then she removes the string.
Check her website: http://janhuling.com/
"My three-dimensional collages combine found objects with surface design, sometimes touching on narrative themes. I’m also drawn to religious and political icons, inspired by a continuing fascination with indigenous or popular culture and world religions. By juxtaposing these icons with an eclectic assortment of objects, the viewer is challenged to consider common images within an altered context."
"In each of my constructions, surface design is the key component. Czech seed beads adorn objects in colorful patterns, camouflaging their original circumstance, allowing us to see them as pure form without their usual connotations. The process is slow and meticulous, zen-like, with the choice of forms motivating color schemes and iconography."
"Certain themes continue to resonate for me. The dolls I frequently include in my constructions explore dreams of childhood while removing them from the realm of cherished playthings. For me, musical instruments represent the lyrical joy that music imparts to our lives and hearkens back to youthful dreams of virtuosity. Birds, in their quicksilver beauty, represent ultimate freedom."
The process requires a lot of patience. First she strings together a combination of beads, then applies the pattern to the object using glue from a syringe. Then she removes the string.
Check her website: http://janhuling.com/
Astonishing Murals Installation
Artist: Fat Heat
Budapest, Hungary, street artist Fat Heat created this awesome image of a giant red bird on cellophane that is wrapped around two trees.
The piece was created at an event called "Akvárium" in Budapest.
The technique shown here is called CelloGraff and was invented by two French graffiti artists Astro and Kanos. By using cellophane, no damage is done to buildings or structures, and no laws are broken. This makes street art and the freedom to creatively express oneself easier to promote in a responsible way.
Source: mymodernmet
Check his website: http://fatheat.hu/tag/effects/
Artist: Yoan Capote
Cuban artist Yoan Capote used around 500,000 fishhooks to build a serene seascape mural.
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The 26-foot-wide mural called Isla (Seascape), was assembled out of half a million intertwined fishhooks, nails and oil.
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Yoan Capote took about 6 months to complete his fascinating fishhook mural with the help of 30 assistants.
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“I decided to use fishhooks in this series because I wanted to create a tension between beauty and seduction and danger and entrapment.”
Check his website: http://www.yoan-capote.com/
Artist: Ran Hwang
We've seen Hwang's amazing works of arts in my previous post, and are pleased to see her newer astonishing works.
Brooklyn-based Korean artist Ran Hwang uses buttons, beads, and pins, carefully aligning each component to produce these amazing images of temples and cherry blossoms, by hammering down thousands of pins adorned with tiny embellishments like sequins into wood panels.
"The process of building large installations are time consuming and repetitive and it requires manual effort which provides a form of self-meditation. I hammer thousands of pins into a wall like a monk who, facing the wall, practices Zen."
Images taken from here
Check her website: http://www.ranhwang.com/
Artist: Mia Liu
Taiwan-based artist Mia Wen-Hsuan Liu transforms generally flat paper forms into three dimensional sculptures.
"I like to draw freely, and is particularly mesmerized by the unique textures created by drawing on different papers; therefore, I love to discover different papers from my everyday life to use as my creative medium, and the medium itself also leads to the inspiration for my installation works."
This installation, entitled Can't Stop Rolling It Up, was originally a drawing that was enlarged onto 144 full sheets of watercolor paper and then cut and curled into strips and attached to an aluminum board.
"The outcome is not only a drawing, but is also a further step in indicating to the viewers the artist’s individual dream."
Images taken from here
Check her website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mialiu/
Artist: Shelley Miler
Montreal-based artist Shelley Miler uses sugar and edible blue paint to create incredibly detailed murals on the side of buildings.
Shelley applies cake icing using a common pastry bag and paints them with edible blue paint.
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Images taken from here
Check her website: http://www.shelleymillerstudio.com/
Budapest, Hungary, street artist Fat Heat created this awesome image of a giant red bird on cellophane that is wrapped around two trees.
The piece was created at an event called "Akvárium" in Budapest.
The technique shown here is called CelloGraff and was invented by two French graffiti artists Astro and Kanos. By using cellophane, no damage is done to buildings or structures, and no laws are broken. This makes street art and the freedom to creatively express oneself easier to promote in a responsible way.
Source: mymodernmet
Check his website: http://fatheat.hu/tag/effects/
Artist: Yoan Capote
Cuban artist Yoan Capote used around 500,000 fishhooks to build a serene seascape mural.
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[link]The 26-foot-wide mural called Isla (Seascape), was assembled out of half a million intertwined fishhooks, nails and oil.
[link]Yoan Capote took about 6 months to complete his fascinating fishhook mural with the help of 30 assistants.
[link]
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[link]“I decided to use fishhooks in this series because I wanted to create a tension between beauty and seduction and danger and entrapment.”
Check his website: http://www.yoan-capote.com/
Artist: Ran Hwang
We've seen Hwang's amazing works of arts in my previous post, and are pleased to see her newer astonishing works.
Brooklyn-based Korean artist Ran Hwang uses buttons, beads, and pins, carefully aligning each component to produce these amazing images of temples and cherry blossoms, by hammering down thousands of pins adorned with tiny embellishments like sequins into wood panels.
"The process of building large installations are time consuming and repetitive and it requires manual effort which provides a form of self-meditation. I hammer thousands of pins into a wall like a monk who, facing the wall, practices Zen."
Images taken from here
Check her website: http://www.ranhwang.com/
Artist: Mia Liu
Taiwan-based artist Mia Wen-Hsuan Liu transforms generally flat paper forms into three dimensional sculptures.
"I like to draw freely, and is particularly mesmerized by the unique textures created by drawing on different papers; therefore, I love to discover different papers from my everyday life to use as my creative medium, and the medium itself also leads to the inspiration for my installation works."
This installation, entitled Can't Stop Rolling It Up, was originally a drawing that was enlarged onto 144 full sheets of watercolor paper and then cut and curled into strips and attached to an aluminum board.
"The outcome is not only a drawing, but is also a further step in indicating to the viewers the artist’s individual dream."
Images taken from here
Check her website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mialiu/
Artist: Shelley Miler
Montreal-based artist Shelley Miler uses sugar and edible blue paint to create incredibly detailed murals on the side of buildings.
Shelley applies cake icing using a common pastry bag and paints them with edible blue paint.
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Images taken from here
Check her website: http://www.shelleymillerstudio.com/
Crystal Beads Taxidermy by Kohei Nawa
Japanese sculptor and assistant professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kohei Nawa is known for his pixcell series, where countless transparent glass beads encase the artwork objects.
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"By covering surface of an object with transparent glass beads, the existence of the object itself is replaced by "a husk of light", and the new vision "the cell of an image" (PixCell) is shown."
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"Most of the motifs, like stuffed animals are found through the internet. I search some auction sites and choose from the images which appear on a monitor as pixel. However, the stuffed animals which actually have been purchased and sent have real flesh feel and smell, and have a discrepancy with images on the monitor. I then transpose them to PixCell in turn."
Check his website: www.kohei-nawa.net/
[link]"By covering surface of an object with transparent glass beads, the existence of the object itself is replaced by "a husk of light", and the new vision "the cell of an image" (PixCell) is shown."
[link]"Most of the motifs, like stuffed animals are found through the internet. I search some auction sites and choose from the images which appear on a monitor as pixel. However, the stuffed animals which actually have been purchased and sent have real flesh feel and smell, and have a discrepancy with images on the monitor. I then transpose them to PixCell in turn."
Check his website: www.kohei-nawa.net/
