Art Kaleidoscope

Going to commit suicide. Scream pop art inspired by Edvard Munch’s Scream

Scream pop art
A series of Expressionist paintings and prints created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910 still inspire artists all over the world. Indeed, an agonized figure against a red sky acquired iconic status in popular culture. Besides, widely considered the second most famous painting ever, it instantly became recognizable to a broad audience. As a result, The Scream appears in advertising, cartoons, such as The Simpsons, films and on TV.
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Collage of Art Movement Posters by Outmane Amahou

Art Movement Posters by Outmane Amahou
To track all directions in the history of art can be very difficult matter. We know that post-impressionism was preceded by Impressionism, but what Fauvism and Futurism look like? And how different are the styles? Fortunately, Outmane Amahou, Moroccan France-based Graphic Designer has created a perfect series of posters to help us remember the basic art styles. He called the series “Minimalist Art Movement Posters». Noteworthy, for each poster he uses a single image. In fact, silhouettes on a bright solid color background perfectly capture the essence of the many areas of art history.
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Autumn Is Here. Photo-manipulation by Serbian photo artist Bojan Jevtic

Serbian photo artist Bojan Jevtic

Born in February 1072, Bojan Jevtic lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. Here is the series of his digital artworks titled “From Serbia with love”. For creating his brilliant photo manipulations Bojan uses photographs found on the net – mostly portraits of beautiful women. Female beauty inspires the talented Serbian photo artist to create stunning fantasy art. You can find more pictures in the photo gallery on his deviant page.
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American writer and graphic artist Edward Gorey (22 February 1925 – 15 April 2000). Edward Gorey cats

Edward Gorey cats
Chicago born self-taught artist and writer Edward Gorey was one of the most important figures in contemporary art. His black-and-white style illustrations decorated editions of such eminent writers as Edgar Allan Poe, HG Wells, TS Eliot, Samuel Beckett and John Updike. Noteworthy, Gorey was very fond of cats and even bequeathed his multi-million dollar state to the Animal Rights Society. Surprisingly, despite the artist’s love for cats, he portrayed them not very often. And if he did, it was only in anthropomorphic style, often in the form of dancers. Meanwhile, his dancing cats has become the real inspiration for jewelers. According to the artists, “Cats, like a ballerinas, extremely elegant, so I like to draw them dancing.”
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Black Bird. Oil on canvas Painting by Russian artist Nick Fedaev

Russian artist Nick Fedaev
Born in 1965 in Russia, Nick Fedaev (Fedaeff) graduated from Polytechnic Institute and Evening Art School in Russia. After graduation from the institute, Nick Fedaev worked as an artist, musician and composer. Then he moved to Auckland, New Zealand, where he lives and works now. According to the artist, he finds the inspiration from various sources – his dreams, life and people, surrounding him. Also, paintings of the Old Masters of the Renaissance, Da Vinci, Dali, Bosch and Picasso. Meanwhile, he admires not only their brilliant paintings, but also their attitudes to life.
Creating his portraits of surreal women with fantasy hair style, Nick works with acrylics, oils and mix media.
Paintings by Nick Fedaev appeared in solo and group exhibitions in New Zealand, Australia, USA, Europe and Japan.
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Stunning painting on water surface. Work by Turkish artist Gharib Ai. Unique Ebru art

Unique Ebru art
Mistakenly called Paper marbling, Ebru art technique doesn’t represent ​​simple patterns drawn on the water. Unlike paper marbling, Ebru art involves the creation of a detailed painting, landscape, and even portrait. Besides, rare masters and artists work in the classical technique of ebru. And one of these masters – Turkish Ebru artist Gharib Ai, who has achieved the perfection in Unique Ebru art, creating incredibly beautiful paintings on water surface.
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Creation by a self-taught architect Xiao Yongsheng. Traditional Chinese house decorated with seashells

Traditional Chinese house decorated with seashells
Beautiful house, located in the Spanish city of Salamanca, became the most famous in the world thanks to its unusual decoration. In particular, three hundred shells which decorate its facade. But in China’s Shandong Province on the island of Lingshan there is a whole building made entirely of shells.
According to a self-taught architect Xiao Yongsheng, he spent two years trying to turn his traditional Chinese home into a real marine wonder. Meanwhile, the total area of the outside of the building – 1500 sq.m. 58-year-old merman Xiao Yongsheng doesn’t regret about time and effort to decorate the house with seafood found on his own private beach.
One morning after a swimming, he saw an unusual shell, and then he got the idea of a wonderful design. During his work, he found a variety of seashells – diameter from a few millimeters to giant specimens weighing up to four pounds! This natural building material master used in different ways – for external walls, tiles, door handles and mosaics.
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