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Sushi art by Takayo Kiyota

31.07.201428.07.2022

Sushi art by Takayo Kiyota
Tokyo based food artist Takayo Kiyota traditionally uses Makizushi rolled sushi for her art. Rolls coming out of the hands of Kiyota – real art objects, not just sushi. Externally huge cylindrical roll wrapped in seaweed, and doesn’t differ from traditional sushi, except for the size. However, with the first slice the illusion of usual sushi disappears – the customer sees a stunning food painting. The themes of edible pictures vary from classical paintings, such as iconic “Scream” by Edvard Munch to modern life stories and characters.
Takayo herself or Tama-chan, says that creating such rolls is easy. The main difficulty lies in the transfer of facial expressions of heroes of snacks. The fact that under the influence of a knife pattern may change and should be treated with great care when cutting rolls, not to spoil the picture.
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Sculpture

Murano glass art

31.07.201414.08.2015

Murano glass art is made in Italian town of Murano, on the remote island 1.5 kilometers from Venice. There numerous glass factories and shops are focused on the manufacture of fantastic beauty. Unique Murano products (Antica Murina) are handmade, known since the 10th century and every glass-creation is unique and exclusive. The price may vary from a few euros to hundreds thousands (works of art), and they are all unique. Murano glass – one of the most desirable gifts from Italy, although, in principle, to buy products made from Murano glass is possible in many parts of the world. Murano glass-makers still insist that authentic Murano glass is fabricated only in Murano.
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Photoart

PhotoArt by Christian Tagliavini

31.07.201402.07.2015

PhotoArt by Christian Tagliavini – projects ‘1503’ and ‘Dame di Cartone’. Italian-Swiss photographer Christian Tagliavini was born in 1971 in Italy. He was educated in Italy and Switzerland, and now he lives and works in Lugano, Switzerland. His art works were exhibited in Switzerland and published in magazines such as Eyemazing and toBE – Lux [R]evolution. Christian Tagliavini loves designing stories with open endings (requiring observer’s complicity) on unexplored themes or unusual concepts, featuring uncommon people with their lives and their thoughts made visible. This rich and exciting collision of circumstances results in photos as a final product.
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Sculpture

Metal sculpture by James Corbett

31.07.201402.07.2015

Australian artist and sculptor James Corbett, from Ningi, Queensland, creates unique artworks from car parts. Nothing is bent into shape; the original integrity of each car part is maintained. “The parts themselves are often interesting, some are as much as eighty years old”, says James Corbett. Since 1999 Metal sculpture by James Corbett has been successfully participating in exhibitions in Australia, England, Switzerland, New Zealand, Japan, the United Arab Emirates and the U.S.A.
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Jewelry

Ancient jewelry art of Afghanistan

31.07.201402.05.2024

Ancient jewelry art of Afghanistan

Tillya tepe means Golden Hill, an archaeological site in Afghanistan near Sheberghan, surveyed in 1979 by a Soviet-Afghan mission of archaeologists led by Victor Sarianidi. The hoard contained about 20,000 gold ornaments found in six graves (five women and one man) with extremely rich jewelry art pieces, dated to around the 1st century BC. Several thousand pieces of recovered fine jewelry were made of gold, turquoise, lapis-lazuli. The ornaments included coins, necklaces, belts, medallions and crowns.

Some of the finds are a part of the traveling exhibition titled “Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures From the National Museum, Kabul”, first displayed in 2006 in France’s Musee Guimet in Paris, in Washington, D.C. from May 25th to Sept. 7th, 2008; and from Oct. 24th, 2008 to Jan. 25th, 2009 the collection was at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
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Painting

Sloth facebook friends by Hector Janse van Rensburg

30.07.201402.07.2015

Hector Janse van Rensburg is a 20 year old pop artist from the United Kingdom. He became famous for his caricature drawings of random people from Facebook, as sloths. Hector himself calls his art “Shitty Watercolor”, and it seems even Mark Zuckerberg himself enjoys the creativity of a young British artist. Hector confesses that he started doing the paintings out of boredom. For those who believe him to be none other than the illustrator Quentin Blake (once Hector counted over 50 messages telling him this in a single day), he says – No, unfortunately, I am not Quentin Blake. The comparison between his work and that of Quentin Blake is definitely not something to be annoyed about. Some people criticize his art, others adore – Sloth me, please!
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Painting

Russian genre painter Firs Zhuravlev

30.07.201402.07.2015

Russian genre painter Firs Zhuravlev (10 December 1836 – 04 September 1901) was an academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, member of the “revolt of fourteen”, one of the founders of the St. Petersburg Artel of artists. Firs Zhuravlev was born in 1836 in Saratov. He studied painting at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. While studying at the Imperial Academy of Arts was repeatedly awarded medals “For success in drawing”: in 1858 and 1860 – small silver, 1860 and 1862 – large silver. In 1862 he was awarded a small gold medal for the painting “The lender takes the property of the widow.” In 1863, refused to participate in the competition for the Grand Gold Medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts (“revolt of fourteen”), filed a petition to withdraw from the Academy and received the title of class artist of the 2nd degree.
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