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The Artist Perfectly Reimagining Movie Scenes Through Classic Painting References
Source Design You Trust Norro Bey creates art and humor canvas and poster prints. The work is built around clever mashups of pop culture and classic painting references, especially movie imagery blended with art-history aesthetics. The style is playful and highly recognizable. Posts reference things like Pulp Fiction, Edward Hopper, and other iconic visual worlds,…
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The Anonymous Artist Redefining Digital Image-Making by Turning Everyday Photos Into Surreal Visual Collages
Source Design You Trust Fontanesi is an anonymous Italian image-maker known for surreal photo collages and visual “short circuits” made by combining two or more images into a single frame. The work is built around everyday subjects, but the edits create strange, funny, and sometimes unsettling results. What makes the style stand out is the…
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Lenka Clayton Reflects on Motherhood and Finding Connection in Everyday Objects
Source Colossal To open a new film from Art21, artist Lenka Clayton encapsulates her way of thinking and making: “Looking at things that are supposed to behave a certain way and purposefully misunderstanding how they should be used, it’s really important to me,” she says. The Cornwall-born artist works across media, creating both meditative animations…
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Construct Your Own Miniature Paper Brutalist Circuses with ‘Cirk’
Source Colossal When we think of traveling circuses, the “big top” tent likely springs to mind with its acrobats, clowns, tightrope walkers, and other entertainers and pageantry. Sometimes the traditions are controversial, such as the use of elephants and lions for performances. But visions of bedazzled animals or the swinging trapeze are nevertheless etched in…
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Featured Artist Mark Lembo
Source Artsy Shark Artist Mark Lembo presents a portfolio of colorful and complex mixed media works. See more of his collection by visiting his website. Since I was a featured artist in 2023, my work has evolved to slightly larger montages and works emphasizing mark-making, called the Impressions series. Works from these two…
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Artist Iosif Gkinis Turns Architecture Thinking Into Cinematic Speculative Worlds
Source Design You Trust Scifiscapes is the kind of project that feels less like an art page and more like a whole universe in progress. It’s built around futuristic, cinematic worldbuilding — neon, architecture, speculative cities, and those huge postcosmic environments that look like they arrived from another timeline. The worlds feel carefully designed, but…
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Illustrator C.F. Payne Brings Old-School Illustration Craft Into A Very Live, Modern Practice
Source Design You Trust C.F. Payne is an American illustrator and the Director of the MFA in Illustration at Hartford Art School. His work has a strong old-school illustration backbone, but what keeps it alive is the mix of draftsmanship, paint, texture, and a playful sense of character. What hits first is how confidently the…
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In Guadalajara, a Ceramic Tile Mural Mimics a Sun-Drenched Ecosystem
Source Colossal Thousands of handmade ceramic tiles nest together like a puzzle on the facade of the Torre San Luis hotel in Guadalajara, Mexico. Abstract shapes evocative of a lush garden ecosystem burst across the outdoor wall in a collaboration between Alex Proba and the artisans of Cerámica Suro. Titled “Shape of Movement,” the large-scale public…
