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Six Artists Transform Sugar Into Art
Aude Moreau Aude Moreau At Beautiful Decay we are beginning to bring our readers weekend coverage, where we’ll be sharing micro art trends of the unusual and unexpected every weekend. And we figured...
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Paper Art: Seven Artists Revamp Paper Into Sculptural Works
Tomas Saraceno Tomas Saraceno Tomas Saraceno Paper is a surface used by artists all the time, however we rarely see the true versatility of it as a material explored to the extent that is seen in the...
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Paul McCarthy And Friends- Inflatable Art That Rocked The Last Decade
Paul McCarthy’s installation in Hong Kong. Photo courtesy of LAURENT FIEVET/AFP/Getty Images Tam Wai Ping Chad Person This last decade in art has turned out a ton of larger than life sculptural work,...
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Toy Art: Artists Incorporate The Objects Of Our Youth
Hans Hemmert Yoram Wolberger Urs Fischer I have to confess I am easily drawn to works of art that resemble or depict toys and other childhood objects. At face value these works are easy, as all of us...
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Paper Tears: Artist Interview with Jaybo Monk
“Paper Tears,” an exhibition of all new works by artist Jaybo Monk opened recently at Soze Gallery in LA. I connected with him to discuss his new body of work, and how it relates to poetry, travel,...
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Family Values: 5 Artists Draw Inspiration From Family
Zhang Xiaogang Song Dong Seonna Hong The saying “home is where the heart is” very rarely relates to contemporary art. And though the works featured here are not directly about home, they are informed...
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Earthworks: Five Artists Sculpt The Landscape
Matthew Moore Lita Albuquerque Andy Goldsworthy Our planet is a truly magical work of art; complex, multifaceted and textural. Perhaps this is why Andy Warhol, a name that is unlikely to be associated...
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Urs Fischer And Seven Other Artists Create Dynamic Works With Houses
Urs Fischer Rachel Whiteread An Te Liu The house is a shape everyone has some form of relationship with. Whether it symbolizes comfort, global financial crises in housing market, cookie cutter...
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Text Based Neon Art From Bruce Nauman And Six Other Artists
Patrick Martinez Bruce Nauman Tracey Emin Text art seems to be popping up everywhere these days in a multitude of diverse forms, although the use of text in art is inarguably not a new movement....
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Heavy Metal Art: Banks Violette And Seven Other Artists On The Spectrum Of...
Banks Violette Skinner Ben Venom This weekend on Beautiful Decay we want to welcome you over to the dark side, where a vast amount of artists are churning out contemporary art fueled by the fire of...
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Damien Hirst And Four Other Artists Who Make Art About Death
Damien Hirst Joel Peter Witkin Angelo Filomeno It’s Halloween season, and campy macabre aesthetic surrounds us, making the general public a little more open to the darker parts of our existence....
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Andres Serrano And Three Other Artists Make Work About Death
Andres Serrano Tereza Zelenkova Berlinde De Bruyckere Death becomes us all eventually, as we are exploring in the works covered in this two part article. In light of the Halloween season, and the...
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Wendy White And Five Other Artists Deconstruct Text In Paintings
Wendy White Feodor Vornov Glenn Ligon Jose Parla Text phrases, words and letters abound in contemporary art, ranging widely from direct witty phrases to text that has become illegible in its...
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Lynda Benglis And 6 Contemporary Artists Sculpt With Paint
Lynda Benglis Lynda Benglis Laura Moriarty Margie Livingston Lynda Benglis emerged decades ago as an artist breaking barriers and shifting paradigms. Pouring neon paints in exhibition spaces served...
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Olek And Four Other Artists Redefine Fiber Art
Olek Erin Riley Olga De Amaral Olek Fiber Arts have a longstanding history rooted in craft and tradition. Woven objects have tended to be functional or decorative, and often viewed more as the works...
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David Ellis And 5 Other Artists Transform Trash Into Dynamic Works Of Art
David Ellis Tim Noble and Sue Webster Gabriel Kuri Artists are magicians in their own right for making something from nothing, for infusing the everyday mundane tools and objects with poetic meaning...
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Marina Abramovic And Seven Other Artists Make Art With Ice
Marina Abramovic Greatest Hits Nene Azevedo Kirsten Justesen In the midst of the holiday season, with record cold temperatures in parts of the world and Winter Solstice, the shortest day/longest night...
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John Baldessari And Five Other Artists Use Lists In Art
John Baldessari Mel Bochner Erica Baum The end of 2013 is just around the corner and we are in the mode of individually and collectively reflecting back on the past year and looking towards the coming...
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Tiny Masterpiece: Joseph Martinez And Three Artists Make Art In Matchbooks
Joseph Martinez Mike Bell Jason D’Aquino We are a society mesmerized by extremes. In our fascination with art this generally translates into obsession with magnitude, scale and sheer quantity, while...
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Corrosive Beauty: Colin Chillag And Three Other Artists Deconstruct Portraiture
Colin Chillag Karim Hamid Borondo Celebrated artist Alberto Giacometti once said, “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” Giacometti was an...
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