Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Ehrlich

Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Ehrlich are two Russians  from Novosibirsk. Both work together to make complex scenes from colored paper from celebrities to every day people. Their artwork shows how much patience they have, due to each detail to each figure. Also, the scenes can also show their sense of humor, due what is going on in their settings. Their art work is very unique, not just because of their 3-D paper models, but also what they make out of the sceneries. A lot of their pieces show the movement that is going on in the picture they had tried to capture, to make it look more realistic. Each one of their paper-figures illustrates it's own unique story which can happen in an everyday life, or even in our imaginations.  The choice to make them colorful is something what I like the most, and this is what makes those figures look more entertaining.

The process in which they make the paper work takes quite a long time. At first, they find a model or picture of which they can get an inspiration for their own works. At first, they draw out many sketches of each figure many times. Then they take colored paper, and cut out the figures with exacto-knives and scissors and many other tools to keep the papers together.

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Paul Toupet

Paul Toupet was born in Paris in 1979. He trained at Penninghen art school and also at the Workshop of Fine Arts of Glacière located in Paris. In 1996, he started to work focus his work specifically on the human representation, and has been ever since.   He sculptures wax puppets, which resembles children-like figures and rabbit masks. Along with the sculptures, he adds hair braids vomiting from the mouth, dressed in torn tissues or feathers and nucleated eyes. A lot of his art works are influeced from African art and religious art, mixed with his own exotic taste. Through his art work, he is trying to show us how the world can be peaceful but scary at the same time. 

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Bovey Lee

Bovey Lee is an artist from Hong Kong, but is now residing in Philadelphia. Lee creates extremely intricate paper cuts on rice paper. All of her work is made entirely from hand with an X-Acto knife. She does not use any lasers or cutting machines. Lee combines drawings, paintings, and digital media in her art work. None of her art pieces include color, just shadow and adding depth into the 2-dimensional picture, giving off a 3-dimensional picture.

This piece is called The Bird That Thinks It’s A Plane.  It is entirely made from paper.  On the right, shows a close up view of the art piece, with the main focal point easy to see. Lee shows a brid, flying in front of a fence, with a shadow of a plane, hence the title. The bird thinks itself as a plane, being big and mighty, flying high in the sky, going where it wants. Even though it is only a 2 dimensional art piece, it looks like the objects are popping out of the picture.

This art piece is called Little Crimes. Lee tries to show the crimes happening in everyday life, but then again trying to relate the pictures to ancient chinese folk art. She uses uses these pictures to relate to our lives in America. Notice how her art pieces both have a fence within the picture, where it is behind or in front of the main focal points, which shows her views on everything happening throughout life. Imagine the hard work and precision you need to make this type of art work. You must have a lot of patience and concentration to make a such detailed paper cut-out. 


















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Amy Talluto

This week, I tried to find something relating more to nature. An excellent example of a nature artist is Amy Talluto. Talluto was grew up in New Orleans, painting and photographing large landscapes. She was more attracted to the wild landscapes, than normal everyday backyards. In Talluto's art, you can see the fine detail of each precise figure.  Many of her paintings are in settings of the forest. As you first look at these paintings, you may think they are pictures because of each specific detail, but as you look closer, you can see that it is all a painting, which Talluto made.

In this painting, you can tell that Talluto captures the moment within, because each object has it's own detail. She captures the reflections in the water, and also the sun gleaming down from the sky behind the trees.

In this painting, Talluto does an amazing job at capturing the movement of the stream. You can tell that Talluto knows her knowledge on nature. There is no human activity in sight in each pertaining, only mother nature surrounded by it's beauty. Many of us forget how beautiful nature can be because we would rather stay inside. Wildness still exists throughout many parts of the world, for now, if we keep it that way at least.

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Chiharu Shiota

This week, I found an artist who I think is very unique. Chiharu Shiota is a Japanese artist from Berlin who creates complex large scale art installations. In her artwork, she uses things we may use or see from a day to day basis, and creates something with it, or adds her own twists to it. In many of her artwork, she uses black thread to zig-zag around her pieces or art, creating sort of a gothic look.

This piece is called Haunch of Venison. Notice how much thread she uses within her art scene. Shiota explained how one day, she felt that she had woken up with her whole room tangled with black thread. From that day, she used this idea into many of her artworks, just like this one.

This piece is called Lebensspuren, which means traces of life. She asked many people to donate shoes, which were then tied to red string, and out onto an apartment building.

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Matthew Cusick

Hey everyone! So today I was going through many magazines and websites, looking for new artists or art pieces. I found a very interesting artist named Matthew Cusick. He creates pictures or collages entirely from maps or book pages. Of course, many people can make art from cutting out maps, but he does it so well and adds his twists. In his art work, you can see extravagant portraits that captures the precise detail and depths of the painting. Even though his entire art work is made of maps, it is quite obvious to see the pictures he designs and creates, which captures each particular object and design.

This is Matthew Cusick with his creation of the entire world put together.

This is one of Cusick's recent art work called "Red & Blue",  which is made entirely from maps, book pages, and ink. As you can see, he captures the fine detail of the two women in the picture, with specific shapes and blending patterns.

As you can see, Cusick is one of very many unique artists that are bringing life to his or her art pieces. He took objects we may use from a daily basis (newspapers, books, articles, ink, ect.) and made his own collection of masterpieces. I challenge you to go and find something around your house, and create something of your own, Well that's all for this week, I'll talk to you in a week!

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Welcome!

Welcome to my page! My name is Sonya and I will be blogging about any new forms of art or artists who are trying to rise up as other famous artists in the world. I will be blogging weekly, so bare with me. Many people make art on a daily basis, almost everyone. Whether it is simple or complicated, photos, paintings, sculptures writings, or videos, all of these are examples of art. I will try and make sure that you will always be surprised! I will make sure to keep you informed with a lot of new and creative artists that are out there. Enjoy!