Art Kaleidoscope

Eduardo Kobra in Moscow, mural of the Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya

Whether traveling to New York, Moscow, or Sao Paulo, you will definitely recognize the art of a famous Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra. He can’t be confused with anybody else – his huge wall murals are a kaleidoscope of colors, manifestation of blue, red, yellow … Eduardo Kobra was born in 1976 in Sao Paulo. His artistic talent was noticed in 1987, first on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, and soon in the city. Following the developments that urban art has gained in Sao Paulo, he develops the “Walls of Memory” project that seeks to transform the urban landscape through art and redeem the memory of the city. This project is an amalgamation of nostalgia and modernity, resulting in scenographic paintings, some monumental, recreating nostalgic moments of the city.
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An eagle. Work by American self-taught paper artist Maude White

Paper artist Maude White
American self-taught artist Maude White has created an art gallery of intricate fairy characters, birds, and animals. Maude came from a family of visual storytellers. Her mother and sister are both toy makers who influenced her. She enjoyed working with paper even in her childhood, attracted by the stark contrast between the black and white paper.
“With paper cutting there are so many opportunities to create negative space that tells its own story, just by letting the observer become present in the piece, by allowing him or her to look through it. I like that.”
Currently, the artist is working on an exhibition to be shown in Buffalo, NY in September.
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Vodafone advertisement character ZooZoo

Vodafone ads characters ZooZoos have become a real hit among Facebook, Orkut and Twitter users. There are more than 200 pages on ZooZoos having over 250000 fans, growing daily. The ads were also viewed by thousands of people on YouTube. These cute white creatures with ballooned bodies and egg heads are used to promote various value added services of Vodafone. Although these characters look animated, they are actually humans in Zoozoo costumes. The idea – the story lines and the name belongs to Rajiv Rao. According to Rajiv Rao, National Creative Director of Ogilvy & Mather, they “wanted to make real people look as animated as possible”. Vodafone received the first People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) 2009 Glitterbox Award, for replacing the Pug with more humane alternatives in their ads.
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Storks. Floral sculpture Parade Corso Fleur

Floral sculpture Parade Corso Fleur
It took landscape designers and artists half a million of dahlias to create a beautiful and colorful parade in a small town of Selestat, in Alsace in north-eastern France. That’s how many flower heads they used to build twelve sculptures, driven on special platforms through the streets of Selestat on August 9.

Actually, on this day there are two parades – evening and night, with live music and fireworks. Celebration continues the next day, Sunday. Platform with flower sculptures are arranged in the streets and squares for residents and visitors to look and take pictures. Throughout the city organized fairs and folk festivals, street performances, everything is just devoted to flowers.
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Diane bust. Steampunk Sculpture by Pierre Matter

French self-taught sculptor Pierre Matter was born April 4, 1964 in Haut-Rhin, in the valley of Munster. After a rather mystical childhood, he, without conviction, left his studies in math for artistic creation. He tried his hand at gouache, watercolor, was involved in drawing comics and bas-reliefs in stone. He finally found his artistic way in sculpture that has always been his main passion. Pierre Matter has been creating stunning sculptures for more than ten years. His art studio is actually his garage, where he using copper, aluminum, bronze, rubber and everything that comes to hand creates his scrap metal artworks. Steampunk Sculpture by Pierre Matter combines nature and products of industrial world. Some of his sculptures weigh more than six tons.
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Ghost Girl. 2007. Carrara Marble, Glass Crystal Beads closeup. Sculpture by British artist Kevin Francis Gray

British artist and sculptor Kevin Francis Gray was born in 1972, in South Armagh, Northern Ireland. Currently the artist lives and works in London and Pietrasanta, Italy. He studied at the National College Of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland (1995), the School of Art Institute in Chicago (1996), then he completed his MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths in London (1999). Kevin Francis Gray is a figurative sculptor, who works predominantly with ancient materials like bronze and marble. Since 2001 Bronze and marble sculpture by Kevin Francis Gray has been shown at art exhibitions and galleries in Great Britain, and abroad – Ireland, Brazil, Serbia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Israel, South Korea, France, United States, Germany. He is currently represented by exhibition “Love Story” in Belvedere Museum, Vienna, June 15 – October 5, 2014.
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Hyperrealistic painting by Laura Sanders

Summertime oil paintings by American artist Laura Sanders look like photographs of people enjoying swimming in lakes and pools, drinking water. The talented artist’s favorite theme is water. Laura Sanders was born in Detroit, Michigan, where she still lives. She got her Bachelor degree in Fine Arts at Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio. Laura Sanders has been participating in group, two-artist and solo art exhibitions since 2006 (Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA). Her first solo exhibition took place in 2009 in Elements, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA.
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