For Nick Veasey, artistic inspiration came from an unlikely source. While working as a photographer/designer for morning television in England, he was assigned the monotonous task of X-raying soda cans to determine which ones contained a winning code for a contest sponsored by Pepsi. After three days without a winner, he X-rayed his sneaker for kicks. Veasey recalls, “It was a great image and I thought ‘there’s something to this.’ It was one of those life-changing experiences. I just left behind everything else I was doing.”

Veasey spent the next three months working with scientists to refine his technique. He learned to gauge object density and structure by experimenting with a variety of materials including plastic, flowers, metals and people, taking the utmost care with his living subjects. (altpic reports)

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Some of the paintings of this Spanish artist Antonio Capel look so photorealistic that even a trained eye will need some time to realise that these are not photos! Amazing!

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Louise Bourgeois is regarded as one of the most important artists working today. Born in 1911 in Paris, she studied under Léger, André Lhôte and Roger Bissière in the 1930s before moving to New York in 1938. Bourgeois has always been at the forefront of new developments in art, but has pursued a wholly personal path, removed from the major avant-garde movements of her time. She has explored her ideas in painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance, using extraordinarily varied media from wood and stone to latex and rubber. However, this breadth of materials is balanced by an almost obsessive continuity of subject matter, often deeply autobiographical in its references to Bourgeois’ childhood. (Tate Modern)

A retrospective by Louise Bourgeois which is now open in Paris contains 200 works of this famous artist including sculptures, art, images and different objects. This exhibition shows that art is the only thing which can live forever.

Louise Bourgeois Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris. (Photo: Horacio Villalobos / EPA)

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If you have a better look you will find a lot of interesting stuff on these pictures that cannot be captured from the first glance.

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For over 35 years Jim Warren has been painting his way into the hearts and minds of people the world over. Already considered a “living legend of the art world”, Jim continues to surprise and amaze. Nice works, I personally like the one that refers to Dali and Warhol’s ‘Tomato Soup’.

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This incomparable photographer pays special attention to lighting! After long-lasting and routine equipment allocation he gets very unusual and beautiful photos without any photoshop involved.

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Miniature World. A tiny world built on top of wonderful culinary delights.

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This is a selection of an absolutely amazing artwork by Brian Walker, a famous contemporary photographer. A must see!

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Let’s see if you can name most of them…(full picture inside the post)

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Some of the best grafitti from around the world by various artists. My favorite’s the one of Link.

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Works of art made entirely of sand!

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Burning man is a festival of radical self-expression. From the 29th of August till the 5th of Septemeber thousands of people gather in the Black Rock desert, Nevada to conduct the most emphatic art-festival in the world. For a short-period a new town emerges with a population of about 50,000 people just to get burned completely after one week. No money and no transport can be used in the town, and nothing can be left to remind about the festival after it finishes. During the festival ‘citizens’ create art-installations, demonstrate their devotion to art in all possible ways, and simply drink and have fun. Enjoy the pictures from the festival to get a taste of this unique event.

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The Legacy Project activists made the largest photo in the world in July, 2006 using a traditional “camera obscura” method. The size of the photo is almost 110×28 feet and it shows the view in front of the hangar, where the experiment was held.

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