Works 2012

Let's take a look back and see the best sculptures, paintings, plays, which we saw in 2012. And "rain room" and realistic drawings ballpoint pen will always remain in our memory as an incredible creativity and flawless execution.

Colorful umbrellas in heaven




This summer, the streets of the Portuguese town of Agueda decorated with colorful umbrellas, awnings, created by designers studio Ivo Tavares within the art festival «Agitagueda». The basic idea - to bring in a public place more boring colors. Sunlight enhanced the effect, leaving the paint with an umbrella on the pavement, the walls of houses and the faces of passers.

Magical appearance of clouds


Dutch artist from Amsterdam Bernadnaut Smayld creates a cloud indoors. Get the right level of humidity, temperature and lighting it manages to generate white clouds and air. This installation is called Nimbus.

Room rain


This amazing formulation is open to all comers in London's Barbican Centre. Extremely unusual project was named «Random International's Rain Room». "Room Rain" - a room of 100 square meters, where the ceiling is continuous water flows. Visitors can go into it and stay completely dry, as sensors pinpoint the place where the person on and off the water above it.

Footprints in the snow


French artist Simon Beck spends his days walking through the untouched snow, creating patterns on it. For the realization of his works the artist spends nine hours a day, creating a thorough patterned tracks that make up the drawings.

Realistic picture of a ballpoint pen


Red-haired girl was created by the Portuguese artist enthusiast Samuel Silva. In his work he used colored pens, using the method of hatching.

Tree-house


Japanese artist Takanori Aiba created this fantastic sculpture using stone, clay, epoxy putty, copper, plastic and resin. Work affects the complexity, detailed and realistic performance. Treehouse is a real little world.

The destruction of the sculpture


Mario Sanchez Nevado (alias Aegis) - digital artist. His work combines lush combination of traditional and digital drawing, vector art and images. The work of destruction, burning inside the sculpture symbolizes the disaster. It caused a lot of discussion.

LEGO-bridge in Germany


Of all the public art projects this year is memorable LEGO-bridge. German street artist MEGX (or Martin Hyuvold) painted gray concrete of the old bridge in bright colors so that people glancing at this place, it seemed that it is made from children's designer LEGO. Visually, the bridge looks like it toy.

Pencil drawing


California elementary school teacher Arts Adoni Khare took first place and received $ 200, 000 in the largest art competition of the world «ArtPrize». Her mural 13 feet tall and 40-feet wide, created using a pencil called "Elephants».

Iceberg paper


Artist Gabby O'Connor won the prize for creating the most magnificent sculptures from conventional materials. This huge installation, resembling an iceberg, consists of papyrus paper. Made of thousands of small triangles, painted in blue-green shades, sculpture hanging from the ceiling. Light passes through the tissue paper to create a magnificent glow inside.

Wire sculpture


David Olivier attracted our attention with its sculpture of the wires, which looks like a 3D-drawing. He braided wire images, most of them are unfinished. Some parts are hanging on an invisible thread and give the impression of floating in the air. The artist invites us to invent their own figure, drawing us into the creative process.

Oil Painting


Promising young Armenian artist Tigran Dzitohtsyan created scenic oil painting titled Mirror, showing a woman unsuccessfully hiding behind hands. The artist does not forget about the classical technique and adapts it with a modern twist. In the world of hustle and bustle, sometimes it is useful to pause for a moment and see the beauty in simple things.