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Showing posts with label paintings. Show all posts
Awesome Majestic Wolf Paintings that will Leave You Amazed

Awesome Majestic Wolf Paintings that will Leave You Amazed

Wolves are legendary animals and the largest in dog family. They have a special way of communicating as they use their spine tingling howl that is used to call for the other wolves. Wolves have a very nice social structure, they all communicate and corporate while hunting and defending their realm. Wolves establish territories larger than how much they require surviving. The larger the amount prey the larger size of territory. Awesome Majestic Wolf Paintings that will Leave You Amazed.


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Guy Secretly Shoots Subway Passengers As 16th-Century Paintings

Guy Secretly Shoots Subway Passengers As 16th-Century Paintings

You can find all sorts of people on the London Underground. You won’t however see anybody from the 16th century. Not unless you’re Matt Crabtree that is. He sees them all the time.

Take a look at his pictures to see what we mean. The series is titled ’16th Century Tube Passengers’, and Matt takes the surreptitious photographs while travelling on the underground. “All these shots are taken, retouched and sent from my phone,” wrote Matt on Facebook. “Capturing the most of mundane commuter moments with a quiet, classical beauty.”

More info: Matt Crabtree (h/t: deMilked)




Incredibly Realistic Paintings By Mike Dargas

Incredibly Realistic Paintings By Mike Dargas

Mike Dargas is an incredible hyper-realist German artist using a fascinating technique.

“I have never studied at an art school, I just started painting at the age of 3. My mother told me, she noticed my artistic talent very early, when I drew my first sketches. After kindergarten I started using oil colors. I guess I was 7 or 8 years old when the first piece was sold to a friend of the family”, Mark Dargas told us.

“Later I had my own tattoo studio for 14 years to do my living until I decided to become an artist. Today I paint large realistic portraits in oil. I love to work on light reflections and color grading and use photographic characteristics to underline the realistic effect”.

More info: mikedargas.com | Instagram | Facebook




The Fine Cave Paintings of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave

Of all prehistoric cave paintings discovered in different parts of the world, the ones at Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France deserve special mention. These paintings are significant for two factors: firstly, they exhibit exceptional aesthetic quality previously unseen in prehistoric paintings, such as the skillful use of shading, combinations of paint and engraving, anatomical precision, three-dimensionality and movement. Secondly, they are of great age. Radio carbon dating has put them in the Aurignacian period, approximately 30,000 to 32,000 years ago, making them the earliest-known and best-preserved examples of figurative drawings in the world.

The cave is located in a limestone plateau along the bank of the river Ardeche, near the commune of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc. Until its discovery in 1994, the cave had remained sealed off by a rock fall that occurred approximately 20,000 years ago. Chauvet is one of the few prehistoric painted caves that was found preserved and intact, right down to the footprints of animals and humans.

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When the cave was discovered, the content of the imagery and the artistic techniques used to create them surprised archeologists and anthropologists. Usually most of the animals depicted in Stone Age art are game animals that were hunted for food. At Chauvet, however, the majority of animals represented are predatory such as bear, cave lion, rhino, and hyenas. Besides, the paintings were executed so skillfully that it has “forced us to abandon the prevailing view that 'early art was naive art'.”

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