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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 post Original Prints of Hokusai’s “Great Wave” are Set for Auction appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>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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]]>The post Chicago Artist Creates Landscape Art Using Fiber appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>Lee says that she got into weaving a few years ago when a friend, who is a fiber artist, gave her some lessons. She immediately fell in love with the medium and progressed quickly, which allowed her to start making complex fiber art herself.
Being fascinated with the sky and nature, Lee opted for an unconventional path of creating landscape fiber art. This path resulted in an ongoing Painted Sky series, which brought Lee recognition in the fiber art community and brought her to the attention of social media users, who have been raving about her works full of colors, details, and serene scenes.
“My work is first and foremost inspired by the sky, but knowing that I wanted to weave more than skies, I looked at landscapes and seascapes for inspiration, especially those found in the south: the beaches at Kiawah Island and Isle of Palms, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the open fields that you can find on almost any back country road in my small hometown,” Lee shares on her website.
You can check out more of Lee’s landscape fiber art by checking her website and social media or by scrolling below.
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]]>The post Michel Torres Costa Transforms Scrap Metal into Impressive Sculptures appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>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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]]>The post Artist Creates Astonishing Optical Illusions By Panting on Her Hands appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>Bren, who has a prominent following on social media, is most known for the optical illusions that she makes by painting on her hands. For example, in one of the videos shared on TikTok, Bren creates an optical illusion that makes you think her hand was tied with a rope and squeezed to an impossible extent.
This particular video received 136.7 million views on TikTok, and the comments section was full of praise and disbelief from social media users.
“Plz tell me how people are so good at art,” one TikToker wrote.
“Why it looks soo REAL,” another added.
But this is just the beginning. Bren’s social media accounts are filled with similar impressive optical illusions, with each being more impressive than the previous one. This includes turning her hand into a bar of chocolate, a pizza slice, kiwi fruit, and much more. Check out more of her works by scrolling below.
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]]>The post These Intriguing Embroidery Artworks Are Inspired By Old-School Cartoons appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>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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]]>The post Anna & Piotr Angiel Are Using Embroidery to Pay Homage to Canada appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>Both Anna and Piotr are talented creatives, but their project Angiel Art is truly the best of both worlds. It allowed them to blend their passions into one, with Piotr capturing the beauty of striking places around Canada before Anna translates them into embroidery pieces that seamlessly mimic the beauty of stunning landscapes that inspired them.
Anna was just a kid when she first learned how to stitch, and she re-discovered her passion during the COVID-19 pandemic. Piotr’s graphic depictions of mountains from their hikes inspired her to work on new embroideries, and her understanding of color theory and composition from working as an interior designer certainly came in handy.
Anna mostly works with embroidery floss, and most of the pieces she created alongside Piotr capture the ice-capped peaks and alpine lakes of the Canadian Rockies. The Angiels also enjoy using their art to capture other natural marvels scattered around North America, and Mount Robson, Moraine Lake, and Zion Canyon are on the long list of places that caught their eye.
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]]>The post Titian’s Painting, Once Found at a Bus Stop in London, Sells for $22 Million at an Auction appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>The painting measures 18.25 inches by 24.75 inches, which is unusual for the artist, who had a habit of creating large-scale works. It was made in the early 16th century by the 20-year-old Titian and shows infant Jesus Christ, Mary, and Joseph taking a rest during their escape to Egypt after finding out the intention of Herod, King of Judea, to kill Jesus.
The reason why The Rest on the Flight into Egypt was particularly interesting to art collectors is its eventful history. The painting was first documented to be in the possession of a Venetian spice merchant in the 17th century before becoming part of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria’s collection. It was then stolen from Belvedere Palace by French troops in the early 19th century during the Napoleonic Wars.
After several years, the painting made its way back to Vienna and was acquired by John Alexander Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath. It remained in the possession of Thynne’s descendants until 1995, when it was stolen from a family residence. Art detective Charley Hill recovered the painting in 2002 at a bus stop in London.
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]]>The post Ira Volkova Creates Hyper-Realistic Large-Scale Paintings of Flowers appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>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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]]>The post Erick Medel Creates Depictions of Immigrants’ Life in LA Using a Sewing Machine appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>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 post Original Prints of Hokusai’s “Great Wave” are Set for Auction appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>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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]]>The post Chicago Artist Creates Landscape Art Using Fiber appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>Lee says that she got into weaving a few years ago when a friend, who is a fiber artist, gave her some lessons. She immediately fell in love with the medium and progressed quickly, which allowed her to start making complex fiber art herself.
Being fascinated with the sky and nature, Lee opted for an unconventional path of creating landscape fiber art. This path resulted in an ongoing Painted Sky series, which brought Lee recognition in the fiber art community and brought her to the attention of social media users, who have been raving about her works full of colors, details, and serene scenes.
“My work is first and foremost inspired by the sky, but knowing that I wanted to weave more than skies, I looked at landscapes and seascapes for inspiration, especially those found in the south: the beaches at Kiawah Island and Isle of Palms, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the open fields that you can find on almost any back country road in my small hometown,” Lee shares on her website.
You can check out more of Lee’s landscape fiber art by checking her website and social media or by scrolling below.
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]]>The post Michel Torres Costa Transforms Scrap Metal into Impressive Sculptures appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>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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]]>The post Artist Creates Astonishing Optical Illusions By Panting on Her Hands appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>Bren, who has a prominent following on social media, is most known for the optical illusions that she makes by painting on her hands. For example, in one of the videos shared on TikTok, Bren creates an optical illusion that makes you think her hand was tied with a rope and squeezed to an impossible extent.
This particular video received 136.7 million views on TikTok, and the comments section was full of praise and disbelief from social media users.
“Plz tell me how people are so good at art,” one TikToker wrote.
“Why it looks soo REAL,” another added.
But this is just the beginning. Bren’s social media accounts are filled with similar impressive optical illusions, with each being more impressive than the previous one. This includes turning her hand into a bar of chocolate, a pizza slice, kiwi fruit, and much more. Check out more of her works by scrolling below.
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]]>The post These Intriguing Embroidery Artworks Are Inspired By Old-School Cartoons appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>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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]]>The post Anna & Piotr Angiel Are Using Embroidery to Pay Homage to Canada appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>Both Anna and Piotr are talented creatives, but their project Angiel Art is truly the best of both worlds. It allowed them to blend their passions into one, with Piotr capturing the beauty of striking places around Canada before Anna translates them into embroidery pieces that seamlessly mimic the beauty of stunning landscapes that inspired them.
Anna was just a kid when she first learned how to stitch, and she re-discovered her passion during the COVID-19 pandemic. Piotr’s graphic depictions of mountains from their hikes inspired her to work on new embroideries, and her understanding of color theory and composition from working as an interior designer certainly came in handy.
Anna mostly works with embroidery floss, and most of the pieces she created alongside Piotr capture the ice-capped peaks and alpine lakes of the Canadian Rockies. The Angiels also enjoy using their art to capture other natural marvels scattered around North America, and Mount Robson, Moraine Lake, and Zion Canyon are on the long list of places that caught their eye.
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]]>The post Titian’s Painting, Once Found at a Bus Stop in London, Sells for $22 Million at an Auction appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>The painting measures 18.25 inches by 24.75 inches, which is unusual for the artist, who had a habit of creating large-scale works. It was made in the early 16th century by the 20-year-old Titian and shows infant Jesus Christ, Mary, and Joseph taking a rest during their escape to Egypt after finding out the intention of Herod, King of Judea, to kill Jesus.
The reason why The Rest on the Flight into Egypt was particularly interesting to art collectors is its eventful history. The painting was first documented to be in the possession of a Venetian spice merchant in the 17th century before becoming part of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria’s collection. It was then stolen from Belvedere Palace by French troops in the early 19th century during the Napoleonic Wars.
After several years, the painting made its way back to Vienna and was acquired by John Alexander Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath. It remained in the possession of Thynne’s descendants until 1995, when it was stolen from a family residence. Art detective Charley Hill recovered the painting in 2002 at a bus stop in London.
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]]>The post Ira Volkova Creates Hyper-Realistic Large-Scale Paintings of Flowers appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>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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