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The Most Mysterious Painting in the Pentagon
This cloak and dagger story has got everything: a mysterious painting, the headquarters of the world’s most powerful military, and a clandestine operation known only as "The Project." In a Pentagon...
View ArticleHokusai’s The Great Wave Painted Using Coke
(YouTube Link) Who knew that Coke and traditional Japanese art were the two great tastes that taste great together? Watch Phil Hansen go to work on a gigantic reproduction of Hokusai’s painting “The...
View ArticleUV Glow Painting Made With RC Cars
(YouTube Link) Typically when art and advertising collide the result is annoyingly shameless, like a door to door salesman selling magazine subscriptions. But this glowing work by Ian Cook doesn’t...
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What Happened to Bob Ross’ Paintings?
Bob Ross said he made over 30,000 paintings in his lifetime. He didn’t sell them, and he never put them in a gallery. Where did his army of happy clouds go? We’ll let Bob explain: “One of the questions...
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Fanny/Fingerpainting by Chuck Close
This ain’t fingerpainting you did in kindergarten! That’s artist Chuck Close "painting" a portrait of his grandmother-in-law with his fingertips. From The National Gallery of Art:...
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Honest and Creepy, Satire and Homage: Grant Wood’s American Gothic
Getty Images No American artwork has been parodied more than American Gothic. Zombies, dogs, Beavis and Butt-Head, the Muppets, Lego figures, and even Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton have taken a turn...
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13 Disturbing Pieces of Art from History
The media gets a lot of criticism for violent and disturbing imagery. Movies, TV, video games, tabletop RPGs, comic books, and various other things have all gone through periods where they’re blamed...
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Rothko in Rice
Mark Rothko’s defaced painting inspired photography Henry Hargreaves (previously on Neatorama) to recreate the artist’s famous artwork. Hargreaves told us that after hearing the story, he found that...
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Throne of Games
Aaron Jasinski, the master of mashups, warns us to not rest easily upon the Mushroom Throne. He made this acrylic on wood planel painting for a Gallery 1988 show. Link -via it8Bit
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Mattress Sheep
The gift of found object artists is the ability to see forms in discarded objects that most of us would never consider. Take this mattress that Sophie Marsham found in an alley. With a bit of...
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