Unbelievable Paper craft.

Awesome Paper craft by Taras Lesko

Incredibly great!

Please find a better adjective to describe it..

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The Principles of Magic

I am yet to find a person who dislike magic

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3D Street Art

Have you heard about 3D Street Art. It looks like graffiti, but its different.

This particular art style has been getting lots of attention . Only when looked at the right point of

view does the three-dimensional painting become a perfect illusion. Here seeing is believing.

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 Displaced Concrete

Done to make an illusion of concrete displaced from the walkway.

Flowing River

This illusion looks like if a river is flowing through the street.

Water Stream

Amazing illusion of water stream running through a public park entrance.

 Glacier Cracking

This illusion looks like a crack in glacier.

 Power Cord

This illusion is very simple but cool. It makes the yellow road line looks like a power cord.

 BMW

This street illusion is of the BMW from Need For Speed Most Wanted, coming from beneath the road.

 Pedestal

Illusion above looks like if the guy in the picture is sitting on a pedestal.

 Underground City

This illusion show if there is a whole city underground.

 Underground Whiskey

Looks like a man pushing the whiskey bottle back in to the ground.

 Falling Walkway

The Brick Artist

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. 
~Charles Horton Cooley

Some artists use paint, others bronze – But for Nathan Sawaya he chooses to build his awe-inspiring art out of toy building blocks.  LEGO® bricks to be exact.

Artist Nathan Sawaya with his creation

With more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his New York studio, Sawaya’s sculptures take many forms. 

He had exhibited in almost all the prominent cities around the world.

LEGO, as in the plastic children's toy that has become ubiquitous since it was introduced more than half a century ago. For the past ten years, LEGO has been the medium of choice for lawyer-turned-artist Sawaya, who used nearly a million of the little interlocking bricks for the pieces that make up this crowd-pleasing traveling exhibition. Fun is indeed the operative word here -- there's little hope for you if you can't appreciate the ingenuity, not to mention the sheer exuberance, of Sawaya's creations. 

A blonde's dark secret

How a seductive beauty changed into a demure lady, 300 years after she was painted.

 

The painting before restoration in 1978 Scholars had already changed their minds about the Italian Renaissance painting ‘Woman at a Window’ several times. Was it a portrait by Palma Vecchio, showing the artist’s daughter? Or even a painting by Lorenzo Lotto? In 1978 a routine restoration revealed a secret lying underneath the paint.

Suspected damages to the underlayer in the woman's brown hair prompted further investigation. But as the subsequent conservation report found, this was not a damaged underlayer at all. It was the original painting.

A dramatic transformation

It was now clear that ‘Woman at a Window’ had been covered with a later repainting. Conservators removed the repainting stage by stage, revealing a woman with a radically altered appearance. Far from being a demure brunette, she was a seductive blonde.

Her jawline had been softened, her breasts more discreetly veiled, and even her eyes had lost their sultry edge.

The painting that was revealed was hardly a likely portrait of an artist’s daughter. (It might even be a courtesan.) Nor does the painting look much like a work by Palma Vecchio. It is now attributed to an unknown Italian artist.

 

Italian, North, Woman at a Window, probably 1510–30 

Victorian tastes

The most likely explanation for the dramatic and rather prudish alterations? The painting had fallen victim to later tastes. Knowing the highly conservative fashions of the day, it seems likely that this happened during the Victorian era. This is supported by the conservation report. The repainting could be removed from the canvas easily, showing that it had to have been done relatively recently.

It is possible that the painting was changed when it first came to the Gallery in 1855 – this cannot be ruled out. However, it seems more likely that the woman was painted over before the work entered the collection. Not all Victorian gentlemen preferred blondes: after the make-over she would have been far more attractive to the art market of the day.

Exhibition 'Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries'
now open at The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN

Opening hours: Daily 10am–6pm, Fridays 10am–9pm

 

30 June – 12 September

Admission free