MetaFilter posts tagged with metal and art

This art is no good, attack the radical!

dubold — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:45:42 -0800

Tom Sanford, a NY based artist, has created paintings depicting pop-culture icons before, but none have created a "regular trickle of hate mail/criticism" like this one. The 2005 painting - a depiction of the 2004 shooting of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott by ex-Marine Nathan Gale (previously) - is being auctioned in November. Some fans of Dimebag are a little worked up (see comments). Other interviews with Tom Sanford. Other art (quicktime movie) inspired by Dimebag Darrell (previously)

Detonography

homunculus — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:31:10 -0800

Detonography is a technique created by Evelyn Rosenberg for making metal sculpture. Detonographs are created by detonating a sheet of plastic explosive over a sandwich of a carved image and a metal plate, forcing the metal plate onto the carved image. [Via]

I, Ron Butterfly

zamboni — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:15:30 -0800

Handcrafted praying mantis sculptures, in brass and silver.

Art is everywhere

tellurian — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:54:06 -0800

Mingei is a transcultural word which combines the Japanese words for all people (Min) and art (Gei). The site has a flash interface and features over 5,000 high resolution, zoomable objects. More information on the Mingei Movement.

Gregory Brotherton—metal sculpture

Slithy_Tove — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:58:21 -0800

Gregory Brotherton. Figurative metal sculpture. Often shiny. Some using discarded machine parts.

What good is an army of cats without armor?

filmgeek — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:22:04 -0800

Armor for cats and rats. Well, really it's cats and mice, but that doesn't rhyme as well.Token Samurai Cat Jeff de Boer, the artist (bio here) all links have been coralized to protect the webhost

KathyK — Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:28:43 -0800

The Ceramic and Metal Sculptures of Clayton G. Bailey Take a look at Bailey's Studio Cam to see what he's been working on lately. It might be one of his life-size metal robot sculptures or a sonic pop ray gun or maybe it's Bender! (via In4mador)