MetaFilter posts tagged with sculptures and art

Rijksmuseum remix

Horace Rumpole — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:27:13 -0800

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, home to Rembrandt's The Night Watch and Vermeer's The Milkmaid, among many other masterpieces, today unveiled the Rijksstudio, 125,000 digitized images of its collections, available in a zoomable interface online or as high-resolution public-domain downloads (account creation required for the latter).

The mathematical sculptures of Henry Segerman

Foci for Analysis — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:24:07 -0800

Henry Segerman creates mathematical sculptures using 3D printing: Round Möbius Strip, Hopf Fibration, Half of a 120-cell, Rectified Tesseract, Tesseract and 16-cell, Hilbert Curve, Knotted Cogs, Round Klein Bottle Segerman's work is available on Shapeways, a 3D printing market. Other cool stuff on Shapeways: Hyphae lamp, The Chrysanthemum Centrepiece, Lightpoem for LED candle, Steampunk Dice Set, Nocturnal Watch, Thugger 3.0, Nyan Pop Tart Cat. Previously about 3D Printing. Via.

Just Add Water

gman — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 09:24:14 -0800

Shinchi Maruyama creates "sculptures" by throwing handfuls of liquid into the air and photographing them. Second link has a short interview below the slideshow.

No, REALLY get the lead out

allkindsoftime — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:55:46 -0800

Pencil sculptures: miniature masterpieces carved into graphite by Dalton Ghetti. previous pencil art

The Art of Tomas Schneider

Sailormom — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:17:37 -0800

Tomas Schneider makes sculptures using basically ceramic, fur, mixed media, acrylic, wood and light.

Stephane Halleux - Jules Verne meets Tim Burton

jonson — Sat, 05 May 2007 22:00:29 -0800

Stephane Halleux is a French sculpture artist whose work feels like Jules Verne as realized by Tim Burton; the sculptures all share cartoonish steampunk vibe that's really appealing. Sadly, the site is 100% Flash, so no linking to specific favorites, but at the very least the navigation remains fairly straightforward.

Tiny Existential Figures in London

jonson — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:10:10 -0800

Little People is a London street art project featuring tiny statues of people acting out the daily chores of full sized people (tourists, beggars, daydreamers, etc). Reminiscent of crash bonsai, or better yet the tiny food dwelling characters found @ minimiam.

Extreme Nature

jonson — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:44:38 -0800

If you love gourds but can't stand their gourdly shapes, then Dan Ladd is the artist for you. By snatching young gourds from their parents & stuffing them into unyielding molds, Dan ends up with remarkable natural shapes, organically grown sculptures that bear amazing details.

Art for a Sunday

Gator — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:36:22 -0800

Two completely dissimilar yet nifty artists: The twisted ink drawings of Jon Kuta (big enough to make desktops; Flash interface), and the fabulously lifelike driftwood and bronze sculptures of Heather Jansch (she really likes horses. Warning: you'll have to side-scroll).

papercraft sculptures

jonson — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:03:53 -0800

Spectacular gallery of paperworks (sculptures crafted from intricately cut sheets of paper). shamelessly pilfered via.

Eggcelent.

Ufez Jones — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 14:11:48 -0800

Al Gunther's Egg Art. Finely detailed sculptures and carvings.

Passe-Partout

the fire you left me — Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:47:39 -0800

Blue collar whimsy : art crime. After viewing abstract sculptures by John Chamberlain crafted with materials such as crushed automobile parts, a group of electricians created their own work and placed it alongside Chamberlain's. Is this mad for real? Class warfare? "This was something that wasn't mistaken as a work of art by anyone other than the electricians."

"King of Pop Baby Drop" has kind of a ring to it!

dhoyt — Sun, 20 Apr 2003 11:26:14 -0800

PopSculptures.com is a site offering "a new type of news media: 3D News." Their mission is "to provide a 3D portal to the latest Pop Culture events. Our sculptures provide a new visually stimulating way of remembering current and past world events." Ethically, their most recent sculptures range from the sick, to the really sick. Anyone wager a guess that Jeff Koons is somehow behind this?

Bonus: they will make custom sculptures of your friends and family. Looks like Irony's back in town, baby.

Art Alert.

SandeepKrishnamurthy — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:46:58 -0800

Outdoor Sculptures from Australia. This is a great collection of evocative outdoor sculptures from Australia. The setting is not bad, too. Outdoor art is very well supported in my city (sorry- no images). Is it a big deal where you live?