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Paintings of strong women created in canvases or pieces of fabric and made out of collage elements

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Paintings of strong women created in canvases or pieces of fabric and made out of collage elements

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Check her work at @artbyflorencia

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Dr. V K S Varma (India)

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Fabián Marcel Gaete

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El arte en miniatura de Fabián Marcel Gaete - El Hormiguero 3.0

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A Line Made by Walking by Richard Long
1967

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This photograph shows a straight line of trampled grass receding towards tall bushes or trees at the far side of what appears to be a field. Below the photograph, on the off-white paper mount, are the words 'A LINE MADE BY WALKING' (handwritten in red pencil) and, below this, 'ENGLAND 1967' (handwritten in graphite pencil).

The work documents an action by Richard Long - the creation of a transient line in nature made by repeatedly walking back and forth in a grassy field - which he then photographed from an angle at which the sunlight made the line particularly visible. The artist made this work while still a student at St Martin's School of Art, London, where his contemporaries included the artists Gilbert & George, Barry Flanagan and Hamish Fulton. Long has described how, in June 1967, he took a train from London's Waterloo station heading southeast, disembarked after about twenty miles and found the featureless field that was to become the site of A Line Made by Walking. Working outside the walls of the gallery in the expanded space of the real world, he created the first of his many works made by walking.

Long has commented about this work:

Nature has always been recorded by artists, from prehistoric cave paintings to twentieth-century landscape photography. I too wanted to make nature the subject of my work, but in new ways. I started working outside using natural materials like grass and water, and this evolved into the idea of making a sculpture by walking ... My first work made by walking, in 1967, was a straight line in a grass field, which was also my own path, going 'nowhere'. In the subsequent early map works, recording very simple but precise walks on Exmoor and Dartmoor, my intention was to make a new art which was also a new way of walking: walking as art.
(Tufnell 2007, p.39.)

For a seemingly simple and prosaic action to be understood as art was a breakthrough for Long's artistic career and also anticipated the practice of performance art that was to become widespread during the 1970s. Although no human figure appears in Long's photograph, A Line Made By Walking presents a trace of corporeal presence and bodily action.

Long has always identified himself as a sculptor, and A Line Made By Walking has been associated by some writers with minimalist sculpture due to its pared down aesthetic (see Roelstraete 2010, p.46). However, unlike conventional minimalist sculpture, A Line Made by Walking was impermanent (the trodden grass would have returned to its natural state within a matter of days). This transience reflects an anti-materialist mode of practice that chimed with what conceptual artists such as Lawrence Weiner, Sol LeWitt and Douglas Huebler were doing in America at the same time. By producing dematerialised art, that had little or no physical form or was ephemeral, the aim was to critique the materialist values of consumer society, and even circumvent the art market. Of course, for many of these artists the work's materiality was quickly retrieved by photography, and it was the document or record of the work that became the art 'object' to be displayed, bought and sold.

Long's use of the natural environment in A Line Made by Walking has meant that it has also been readily associated with land art, a practice which emerged in the late 1960s in both Europe and America and integrated aspects of minimalism and conceptualism with a direct engagement in the landscape. However, in comparison to the monumental permanent works of the North American land artists (for example Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty 1970 or Michael Heizer's Double Negative 1969-70), which took significant amounts of mechanised labour to create, Long's intervention in the landscape was transient and humble. This disparity has meant that Long has been somewhat uneasy about being classified as a 'land artist' (see Tufnell 2007, pp.9-10).

Further reading
Ben Tufnell (ed.), Richard Long: Selected Statements & Interviews, London 2007, p.39.
Clarrie Wallis, Richard Long: Heaven and Earth, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2009, p.43-6, p.172, reproduced p.44.
Dieter Roelstraete, Richard Long: A Line Made by Walking, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London 2010.

Ruth Burgon
January 2012
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artist rooms tate and national galleries of scotland collection

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gelatin silver print on paper with graphite on board

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'A Line Made by Walking', Richard Long CBE, 1967 | Tate

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'A Line Made by Walking', Richard Long CBE, 1967

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9 Eyes of Google Street View by Jon Rafman
2008 - ongoing

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Nine Eyes of Google Street View, Jon Rafman, 2008 - ongoing home / insta / twitt / insta / fb

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Cement Eclipses: Small Interventions in the Big City by Isaac Cordal
2011

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Cleverly Placed Miniature Cement Sculptures by Isaac Cordal

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Artwork and Photography by Isaac Cordal Working out of London, England, artist Isaac Cordal has been placing his cement miniatures all around Europe. In his recently published book Cement Ec…

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The "Living brushes" by Yves Klein
1960

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Miniature sculptures carved out of pencil tips

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Newspaper fashion.

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If your creativity is wild, no medium is a limitation. This fact is exceptionally true with Anastassia Elias, a french artist who collects toilet rolls and turns them into great works of unbelievable art. You read it right, toilet roll. And not only is the choice of medium odd, but the way they are worked into incredible depictions of life is also freakier.

Let's take a short stroll through a small version of this artist's art gallery with these 12 sculptures that show how creative the roll can go. You'll never look at your empty toilet paper roll the same way again.

30 Creative Paper Art Designs

Swing

I bet you didn't expect to find a child swinning from a tree in a toilet roll. The shapes are simple, but they are more than enough to convey life.

Boxing

What's the secret that makes the world inside the roll look so lively? Answer - the backlit!

Horse Racing

Anastassia Elias is not limited to the limited space inside a roll; in fact she even turns it into an advantage with half-depicted figures. Also I like the sense of motion expressed here.

Cowboys

Well, howdy cowboys. Silhouette shapes actually leave their details for the viewers to fantasize about. What story did you come up with, when you see these cowboy silhouettes?

Circus Jugglers

The act of juggling is made precise with the right shapes and positioning in this particular sculpture.

Amusement Park

A whole amusement park comes alive here! The lesson of th day: think out of the roll.

Rain

Perhaps it is too much to ask for rain but those peopel really look like they are trying to get out of the rain. The two in the background sharing the same umbrella is oh-so lifelike.

Miners

They really look like they are mining this toilet roll for what it's worth, with their feet embedded in the rubble.

On a lighter note, the paper trees are formed using tweezers, and concentrated patience. The outcome is natural and relaxing.

Zoo

It's a zoo in here. Visitors are kept outside of the enclosure with a thin bar but you can see how excited they are to see the giraffes.

Aquarium

It's not just the ground, you can build any world inside the roll. Also this incredible version makes the fish fly in mid-air.

Mill

And here lies the secret of how she does it. Anastassia uses paper of same color to blend the paper figure into the roll seamlessly. Everything else that makes the sculpture come alive is based on her ingenuity and attention to detail.

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From Toilet Roll To Paper Art: 12 Amazing Examples

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If your creativity is wild, no medium is a limitation. This fact is exceptionally true with Anastassia Elias, a french artist who collects toilet rolls

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example of unconventional art

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Floating in a falling universe of flowers - Interactive Digital Installation

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Floating in a falling universe of flowers - Interactive Digital Installation

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example of unconventional art
https://www.teamlab.art/w/fitfuof

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https://alexameade.com/

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Anna Kohlberg - 3 million beads used to create a model of a kitchen and express feminist movement ideologies

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Visual artist Liza Lou creates artwork using all kinds of tiny glass beads. She is most well-known for this installation, Kitchen, in which she produced a full room-sized sculpture covered entirely with the small, colorful objects. One by one, the artist hand-glued each piece with tweezers to the surface of cabinet doors, window frames, floor tiles, a table and chairs, a toaster, and even dirty dishes in the kitchen sink. The pixelated world, 168 square feet of fragile patterns of glass, took five years to make and contains more than 30 million beads.

In the space, Lou created the illusion of functionality within what ultimately served only as a creative display. Toast popping out of the toaster, a bag of open Lays potato chips sitting on the counter top, and a freshly baked pie emerging from the oven all suggest that the homeowner will return to the space at any moment. Through this project and many other works, Lou continues to transform traditional beading into magnificent and monumental displays of patience, dedication, and tedious attention to detail.

Liza Lou: Website | Facebook | Instagram
h/t: [ Designboom]

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Stunning Kitchen Installation Covered With 30 Million Beads

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Visual artist Liza Lou creates artwork using all kinds of tiny glass beads. She is most well-known for this installation, Kitchen, in which she produced a full room-sized sculpture covered entirely with the small, colorful objects.

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Stanislav aristov uses burnt matches and bends them in ways he wants them to look then uses photoshop to finish off what the matches couldnt do creating a whole image.

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Stanislav aristov uses burnt matches and bends them in ways he wants them to look then uses photoshop to finish off what the matches couldnt do creating a whole image.

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19C glass beads depicting traditional representations of animals

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Styrofoam cups

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Why is it unconventional?