Let’s face it. The above image of Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen wearing a dress made out of water is more likely to draw attention to the vital importance of water to our lives than yet another picture of a polluted river or another attempt at heart rending with a child in Africa standing by a [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Digital Art category.
From Vietnam to The Environment: The work of Maya Lin
Maya Lin shot to fame when, at age 21 and while still an undergraduate, she won an open competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. An architect, artist and sculptor, Maya Lin has, over the last few years, turned her attention to environmental issues. WHAT IS MISSING? What Is Missing? is the [...]
Trash – Again: The Art Of Huang Xu
It’s hard to imagine that the diaphanous forms created and photographed above are discarded plastic bags. Huang Xu, a Beijing born artist, collects plastic bags from the endless rubbish heaps now to be found in China and, using 3D scanners normally used by archeologists, digitally re-models them to create these wonderful images. Plastic bags are [...]
Garbage and Landscape Beauty – the work of Yao Lu
Yao Lu is a digital artist who creates beautiful landscape images in the style of traditional Chinese paintings – beautiful mountain and water scenes are shrouded in could and mist, eliciting serene and romantic feelings. But a closer look at these images reveals that all is not as it seems. The images are digital composites [...]
BP: Belching Petroleum – The Art Of The Oil Spill
It is not clear which is the biggest scandal. BP pumping maybe a million gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico (after all, industrial mishaps do happen); or the Obama Administration’s continued support for opening up more and more of America’s shores to oil drilling (when, after all, industrial mishaps do happen [...]
Fantastical Worlds?
Mary Mattingly is a highly imaginative artist. In a genre of work akin to science fiction, she extrapolates today’s developments to create a vision of a future world. The background to some of her themes has been explored before but her work, evolving over a number of years, builds, layer upon layer, to create an [...]
