Tuesday, January 6, 2009

I need to see some art

"A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things."
-Cy Twombly


Chinese artist Liu Jianhua created this cityscape of Shanghai using poker chips and dice. See it at a solo exhibition in San Gimignano, Italy. Neatorama suggests a bold metaphor about a city's growth and economic development to risk taking, gambling and chance, which not surprisingly, makes perfect sense. Read more about Liu Jianhua here.






Liz Hickok created an amazing model of San Francisco's Bay Bridge using JELLO! How awesome is that? (I wonder if she ate the model afterward?) Check out the bridge and another cityscape of San Fransisco below. See more of the Bay Area in Jello, and more art at her website.



This one is fucking brilliant! Made entirely of eggs, feast your eyes on an RMB $50 bill (Chinese currency) that doubles as a cityscape! No info on the artist, but check out more art involving biscuits, plastic bottles, colored tiles and other unusual mediums at Neatorama. The world needs more art like this!

2 comments:

Erika said...

OMG I LOVE THIS. Like this art is really spectacular and unexpected, kinda like that guy who does the chalk drawings that are super next level. What did they do with the eggs afterward?

Hopefully no one "cracked up" when someone told a "yolk" and got so "eggscited" they stepped on any of the eggs!

I'm done, btw, no more bad egg jokes.

MACK said...

LMAO, are you talking about Roadsworth? Or maybe Banksy (the anonymous graff artist)? Both are equally amazing.