Art is present (9)
March 13th, 2011 Posted in CreativityHow did these artists ever come up with these ideas?
Michael Kalish made a three-dimensional sculpture of heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali using 1,300 sand bags, hanging from 10 kilometers of stainless steel cable:
He dedicated the website http://www.realizeali.com/ to his ImmortuAlize, visuAlize, reAlize monument.
Paige Thompson paints her own lips in very special styles in her series Animal-ipstick:
The Amusing Planet blog shows some nice paintings in vivid colors.
Bryan Lewis Saunders made one self-portrait per day since 1995 (8000 total). The extra special thing about that is that some of them were made while under the influence of various chemicals.
These are the books containing all the portraits, here is a selection, here is a slideshow, and here are three videos.
My earlier posts in the series Art is Present: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
