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Architect Roberto Giacomucci Treats Every Material as a Living Substance With Its Own Inner Nature
Source Design You Trust Roberto Giacomucci is an Italian architect and designer from Ancona. Giacomucci built his professional career as an architect and industrial designer, founding Studio Giacomucci Design in 1994. He has collaborated with major galleries and design houses including Rossana Orlandi in Milan, Fragile Milano, Mint London, Matter of Stuff London, Bontempi, and…
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Artist Kapi Michalska Turns Real Faces Into Bold, Abstract Portraits Full of Hidden Meaning
Source Design You Trust Kapi Michalska is a graphic designer and expressive portrait painter based in Szczecin, Poland, working primarily in Procreate. Michalska’s signature style layers semi-realistic facial features with bold, abstract shapes and colorful, expressive brushwork, so the shapes she draws don’t just decorate a portrait but actively bring new meaning to it. Her…
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Suzanne Jongmans Recycles Everyday Materials for Elegant Renaissance-Style Portraits
Source Colossal From materials we normally discard like padded packaging or the mesh sleeves that protect fruit from bruising, Suzanne Jongmans summons elegant and dreamlike Renaissance portraits. The artist drapes models in lush velvet fabrics and typically positions them against deep backgrounds in the vein of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” (1489-91) or…
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Get Up Close to the Sun in the Highest Resolution Image Ever Captured
Source Colossal Scientists have long studied how magnetic energy powers solar activity. The constant motion of plasma particles and the sun’s rotation are major contributors to its cycles and events, such as flares and coronal mass ejections, which lob huge quantities of plasma and gas into space. Sometimes these explosions reach the earth’s magnetic field…
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Pricing Your Art in a Weak Economy
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Stuffed Animals and Found Objects Reconfigure in Sungho Bae’s Uncanny Sculptures
Source Colossal Like many kids, I struggled with bedtime. I was a naturally anxious child with a vast imagination and siblings who loved to watch scary movies, leaving me capable of generating an endless array of terrifying things that could happen once the lights went out. To remedy this problem, my mother designated a particular…
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Discover Millions of Artworks from Thousands of Museums with This Huge Art Search Engine
Source Colossal Described by its anonymous creators as “the largest search engine for museum art,” The Last Museum is a veritable trove of the the world’s great works. It currently includes pieces by more than 290,000 artists, which are held across 4,903 museums and represent 304 cultures and nationalities. A lot of the works are…
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Meghann Stephenson’s Tender Paintings Contrast Women’s Agency with ‘Acceptable Behavior’
Source Colossal In elegant, meditative paintings by Meghann Stephenson, the inner lives of women are illuminated through subtle symbolism. The Los Angeles-based artist is known for her figurative paintings and still-lifes emphasizing repetition, reflection, and mystery. Often, we encounter a puzzle-like quality to her work in the form of knots, mazes, or duplicates. Next month,…