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]]>Medel, who is an immigrant himself with his family hailing from Puebla, Mexico, often seeks inspiration by walking the streets of LA. During his walks, he encounters people from all parts of the world who now call Los Angeles their home and witnesses all sorts of captivating scenes.
The scenes that resonate the most with Medel end up being photographed and taken back to his studio. There, he projects them on a piece of denim and spends weeks and sometimes even months etching the projection with a sewing machine.
“Sometimes these moments just find me; I might see a scene on my way back from the store, take a quick photo, and it becomes a piece of art. It’s these little moments in the city that inspire me,” Medel explained his creative process in a recent chat with Juxtapoz.
Medel’s unique artworks have been exhibited across the United States and featured in a number of publications. They are currently on view at Medel’s solo show at LA’s Charlie James Gallery.
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]]>The Great Wave off Kanagawa, commonly known as “Great Wave”, is Hokusai’s most famed work and one of the most recognizable pieces of artwork in history. It was created in 1831 as part of a larger series of woodblock prints, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
A total of 1,000 prints of “Great Wave” were originally printed early on, with 7,000 more made later. It is estimated that 100 of these prints have survived.
The print offered by Bonhams has an estimated price of $700,000 to $900,000, and is described as “outstanding” and has never been shown to the public before.
“The color of the print is good with little fading. And most importantly, the print is innocent. There are no signs of in-painting, which occurs in a lot in examples of the Great Wave,” Jeff Olson, director of Japanese Art at Bonhams, told ARTnews.
Christie’s is offering a print that came from a private collector from Japan, with an estimated price of $500,000 to $700,000.
The demand for “Great Wave” prints has been on the rise in recent years. For example, Christie’s sold one print in 2023 for a staggering $2.8 million, a new record for the piece.
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]]>Most of us who played with Polly Pocket toys or watched others do it always wondered how it would feel to live inside one of those houses. Thanks to the rental platform Airbnb, we can now actually experience this.
Airbnb recently listed a life-sized Polly Pocket house on their platform. It is a vintage-themed, two-story Slumber Party Fun compact located in Littleton, Massachusetts. It features a retro fridge full of snacks, Polly’s closet featuring her iconic outfits and accessories, and numerous other surprises.
Polly Pocket fans can book one of three one-night stays, which will take place from September 12 to 14. A night costs $89 per person, which is a nod to Polly’s official first release in 1989, with a minimum of four guests per booking. In order to book a stay, potential guests must submit a request by August 28.
For all of those who potentially miss out on spending the night in Polly Pocket house, Airbnb will organize daytime adventures. There will be a total of “21 experiences for up to 12 guests” available from September 16 to October 6.
Make sure not to miss this unique opportunity and book a stay or daytime experience right away.
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]]>Yamada comes from a family of artists, with her mother being an illustrator for children’s books and her father working as an illustrator in the advertisement sector. Yamada herself has worked in caricature for 14 years, and her skills and talent are shown in every one of her pieces.
Through her clips, Yamada captures the joy of working with a diverse group of clients and shows how amused they are by her results. While most of Yamada’s pieces contain more or less subtle jokes at their expense, the clients are always impressed and prompted to laugh by her creations.
TikTok users are also impressed by Yamada’s works, letting the artist know how entertaining her pieces are while also praising her skills.
“You are a fantastic artist. love your compositions,” one person commented.
Some even say that they want to go to Hawaii just to a caricature from Yamada.
“I wanna go to Maui just for this!!” another person shared.
Scroll down to check out more of Yamada’s works and reactions from her clients.
@ninjasketch Maui Honeymoon drawings are the best! I also love some good fangs ? if you’re in Maui, come over! I want to draw your face
♬ Jump (For My Love) – The Pointer Sisters? #thingstodoinmaui #thingstodoinhawaii
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]]>Torres Costa initially started working with metal as a 15-year-old boy, becoming a welder and working on metal sculptures. After 10 years in the metallurgy sector, he was looking to “escape the monotonous reality” and decided to follow his longtime passion for art by starting to create artworks from resin.
In the following five years, Torres Costa became an expert in resin but once again felt being drawn to the metal. His brother-in-law owned a mechanical workshop, and one day, the artist took home some metal scraps and created a wall horse. He liked the experience so much that he decided to dedicate himself to metal art moving forward.
Since making a wall horse, Torres Costa went on to create more than 50 metal sculptures using a wide range of pieces ranging from motorcycle crowns, chains, and ratchets to bolts and metal pipes. His meticulously detailed works have gained him a huge social media following and led to exhibitions in his native country of Brazil and around the world.
“Everything that a person thinks is garbage can be transformed into something with meaning and transformed into art, with beauty, giving a new face to a material that would never be used again, or would be rolling around, polluting our world,” Costa Torres explained in an interview with Euro News.
Continue scrolling to check out more of Torres Costa’s creations below.
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]]>The post The Cultural Tutor Matches Famous Paintings With Real-Life Locations That Inspired Them appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>The team behind the page took 16 paintings from well-known painters like Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, and Grant Wood and placed them side-by-side with photos of the locations that are featured in the artworks.
Vincent van Gogh was known for turning to places he lived for inspiration, so it isn’t a surprise that two of his paintings made the list. The first is The Church at Auvers, painted in 1890, which depicts the church Église Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption located in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The second one is Café Terrace at Night, which Van Gogh created in 1888, showing the café terrace of a coffee house at Place du Forum in Arles.
Other paintings that feature locations you can visit include American Gothic by Wood, Palazzo Dario, Venice by Claude Monet, Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth, and The Little Street by Johannes Vermeer. Some of the locations changed over time, but some remained the same as the ones featured in the painting.
Check out the rest of The Cultural Tutor’s viral thread, which got 2.1 million views, below.
5. Piazza San Marco, Venice by Canaletto (1730)
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) June 23, 2024
Not much seems to have changed, but the truth is that between Canaletto painting this picture and the photo being taken, the bell tower collapsed (in 1902) and was rebuilt brick for brick exactly as it had been. pic.twitter.com/ACQiFhRMkb
8. High Street, Oxford by JMW Turner (1810)
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) June 23, 2024
It's tempting to say nothing has changed; the buildings of Oxford remain just as they were 200 years ago.
But consider the impact of cars and everything they bring with them, like signs and tarmac, on the appearance of the street. pic.twitter.com/czht9i1pFn
9. Palazzo Dario, Venice by Claude Monet (1908)
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) June 23, 2024
Monet is hardly known for his "realism", and yet his depiction of the Palazzo Dario is somehow more beautiful, and feels almost more truthful, than any photograph could ever be. pic.twitter.com/3zMWrisj1H
13. A Moonlit Night on the Bosphorus by Ivan Aivazovsky (1894)
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) June 23, 2024
Another place — Istanbul, called Constantinople in Aivazovksy's time — where the view is almost identical.
With the exception, of course, of the huge Bosphorus Bridge behind the (elongated, again) Ortaköy Mosque. pic.twitter.com/4guYJgfShU
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]]>TikTok content creator Malia Makaila recently shared a video in which she documented how this popular travel hack ruined her flight. It turned out that a couple tried to pull off a “middle seat trick,” but Makaila ended up sitting between them. After their plan was spoiled, the couple decided to be quite rude about it.
“They’re just passing chips and drinks over me, having a full conversation; meanwhile, the guy in front of me pushed his seat so far back I can’t open my laptop, and the WiFi doesn’t work,” Makaila explained in the text written across the clip that shows how couple is ignoring that she is there.
The video ended up quickly spreading across social media, with TikTokers chiming in on the situation in the comments section. The majority of them criticized the couple while being surprised with how Makaila managed to remain calm and collected in this type of situation.
“girl, you are too nice,” @vyzzzzy wrote in the comments section.
One social media user admitted using the travel hack but said that they always try to be polite if it fails.
“I’m a wife that buys a window seat for me and an aisle for my husband. Suppose the middle seat is bought I never make the person sit between us. I always offer the window seat to them,” @melissaflynnaxel shared.
What about you? How would you react in a situation like this?
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]]>Frederiksen takes an unusual approach by zooming in on particular scenes and showing them out of context. This usually involves moments of high tension or ones that foreshadow future climactic happening. By doing so, the artist creates a visually appealing piece that often contains hints of dark humor.
According to Frederiksen, the high-tension moments and escalations that take place in cartoons take a back seat and are shrouded in playfulness. His goal is to make them more pronounced with his embroidery art, which he creates using a free-motion embroidery technique.
“Using familiar imagery, I like to examine fear, panic, toxic masculinity, anxiety, anticipation, and humor, all through the lens of the shared visual language of Looney Tunes cartoons,” Frederiksen explained in a recent interview with BOOOOOOOM!.
Frederiksen presented his intriguing embroidery works through solo exhibitions at The Flat in Milan, Italy, Galleri Urbane in Dallas, Texas, and the UNION Gallery in London, UK, among others. He also shares his work on social media.
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]]>Volkova is a classically trained artist who has been inspired by nature for the most part of her career. Her creative practice saw her turn to various subjects from nature in the past, but recently, her main focus has been hyper-realistic large-scale floral paintings.
A wide range of flower species are represented in Volkova’s paintings, but her favorite is peony due to its large and rich blossoms and soothing pastel colors.
“I’m inspired by nature in its endless variety,” she shared in a recent chat with Thursd. “Even the most common object changes when you try to draw it. I love the large format of canvases. They allow people to show much more than they are used to seeing. On my canvases, a whole macrocosm of petals, the play of light and shadows, and sun glare are deployed.”
If you want to check out more of Volkova’s floral paintings, continue scrolling below.
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]]>Pugh’s works, skillfully created and full of captivating details, mainly feature children as main subjects and see them placed in the center of complex themes. Often having a dark undertone, these paintings capture the innocence and curiosity of children while facing them with a world and emotions they don’t have a full grasp of.
According to Pugh, he is attracted to art that tells compelling stories and aims for his paintings to be created in the same manner. He identifies strong narrative, technical mastery, and aesthetic harmony as three elements that his work must meet in order for him to feel satisfied with it.
“It is my belief that a certain level of skill and creativity can elevate a work to professional excellence, but that it shouldn’t end there. Art should move the soul of the viewer, and if I don’t find myself similarly moved while creating it, I can hardly expect that of the viewer,” Pugh explains in his artist statement.
Continue scrolling to check out more of Pugh’s captivating works.
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