art
A long time favorite. His illustrations seem to add an extra dimension to the beautiful game.
True to his style, even at this scale, artist Shepard Fairey's striking street art installation, a Paris building as the canvas.
More info, just after the jump.
Alfons Mucha was a Czech Art Nouveau (master) artist that left us a while ago (1939) but not without leaving behind a distictive (and remarkable) body of work.
Below is but one of his unmistakable creations:
Odeith's special brand of street art "generates" pieces that defy belief (and gravity) by, seemingly, hoover in mid-air, just in front of the beholder's eyes.
More of these anamorphic creations in the gallery section of his web HQ (1st jump).
AKA, Lady in Red, illustrates (and is a product of) what Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber dubbed Low-Complexity Art. The image/form/pattern can be computed from a simple/short program, without being obvious to the beholder, and this, is surmised, has an effect in its perceived beauty.
In some way, relating (equating?) Occam's razor with/to beauty.
One of the best online art collections.
The first principle of their Mission Statement:
To create the largest on-line Museum on the internet, with hundreds of thousands of oversized high quality images of all the known works of the greatest painters and sculptors in human history, cross referenced to the largest encyclopedic online art reference library of historical texts, essays, biographies and articles.
