Works of art from the usual things

What just not ready to go contemporary artists, in order to surprise us with a new look at familiar things. Today I'll show you the amazing and unique works that are created by talented people from scrap materials. The paintings on eggshells





When woodcarver from China lost his job, he found a non-standard use of their skills. And he began to carve stories on eggshells. For such work really need a keen eye and a steady hand!



Dogs from rags



The artist makes these dogs almost burlap. With such a simple material she manages to convey their character. Although sculpture is not even the eyes, movement and emotions expressed very accurately.



Collages of dollars
Mark Wagner makes collages of dollars. In his works the artist uses only real money. To create a collage, Mark spent 30 hours at a time, and from 15 to 20 notes, that the artistic standards is not so much money.



Sculptures made of coat hangers and matches
Scottish sculptor David Mach create out of the ordinary "hangers" for clothes huge sculptures: among the exhibits are an astronaut, a deer and a gorilla.



He uses everyday objects to create images of contemporary culture. For example, the head of Marilyn Monroe made from a variety of matches.



Objects beard



Pierce Tiote creates art out of his beard - he puts into it various objects and photographs. As often happens, the idea was born by chance one day while working he shoved a pencil in his beard, and then on the holiday home all wondered how many pencils will fit? It was found that in general, the beard can hide everything from jelly bears to the scissors.



Sculptures made of bicycle chains



The avant-garde sculptor from South Korea Yeong-Deok Seo creates sculptures from bicycle chains. It turns monumental and brutal.



Sculptures of vegetables
American artist and filmmaker Philip Haas created based on a series of paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo sculptures. Some of them are exact copies of the artist's paintings of the Renaissance, while others - a compilation of the ideas of the Italian master. The sculptures were exhibited at the New York Botanical Garden.



Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who lived in the XVI century, considered one of the forerunners of surrealism. His paintings - a weave of different subjects (often - fruits and vegetables), which together constitute the composition of the portraits of famous personalities of the time. He created a series of "Seasons", which was full of the gifts of nature and seasonal fruits and vegetables.



Sculptures of skateboards



Skateboarder from Japan and a self-taught sculptor haroshy combined his two passions into one: he creates sculptures from old skateboards. Often he uses, and their old boards.



Those cartons of toilet paper
Parisian artist Junior Fritz Jacquet doing origami since childhood, but now he's moved on to a new level: it creates characteristic portraits of cardboard cylinders for toilet paper. He crumples cardboard and paint it, getting funny and scary faces, full of expression.



Sugar sculpture
German sculptor Joseph Marr creates human figures (usually nude women) sugar. At its last exhibition Marr introduced her character in four different flavors: cherry, apple, licorice flavor and tasteful forfeits. This, for example, Laura Cherry. But there are these sculptures can not just watch.



Fabric sculpture
Lisa Lichtenfels - an outstanding American master, the founder of the sculptural textiles. It was an animator at Disney Studios, and developed a three-dimensional figure with a disposable frame of nylon stockings for time-lapse animation.



Ship of toothpicks
Artist Scott Weaver spent on the creation of such a ship 10,000 toothpicks and 34 years of life. It is the ship - is a collective image of San Francisco, but in general, Scott made many models of different ships. His friends know about passion, so bring a toothpick from his travels.



Hairstyles of toothpicks



On each such hair out of 2000 toothpicks, first of gouache paint and then make up the image. Using six colors creates a sense of depth and volume. This is a joint project of photographers, makeup artists and stylists. The idea of ​​using toothpicks appeared on hairstyles with strict lines.



Stone balance



Meditative art of balancing stones is not new, it is practiced for thousands of years. And landscape designer Michael Grab project Gravity Glue proves that the best glue for stones - is gravity. Just imagine: it all rests on the force of gravity, the main thing here - to find the right balance.



Labyrinth of the books



This installation Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Pupo Gultera - a huge labyrinth of 250 000 books in the form of a fingerprint of Jorge Luis Borges. You literally "get lost in a good book," By the way, the height of the walls - 2, 5 meters. All the books after the show returned to the library.



Sculptures made of driftwood



The artist from Australia has created the fabulous garden of driftwood and old stumps. Now there are more than a century, but in 2009 a fire destroyed half of the exposure and the house of the artist, but he was able to recover a lot, including - the house.



Figures peanut



From peanuts can be anyone: famous artists, comic book characters, and even politicians. Just a few hours the artist Steve Casino can paint any picture, even an unknown person.



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