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Hello Killy — Pop Culture Mashups from Dito Von Tease

Ryan Nance October 25, 2017

The Italian designer Dito Von Tease made me laugh actually out loud with a number of these witty pop culture mashups.

Check out more on  Facebook or Instagram

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In 5tilt Tags pop culture, design, pop art, Hello kitty

Drawing of American Icons on U.S. Currency

Ryan Nance August 23, 2016

James Charles, in his series American Iconomics. used real U.S. currency for each of these drawing of American icons. 

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In 5tilt Tags pop art, drawing project, money

Pop Culture Terracotta Warriors from Lizabeth Eve Rossof

Ryan Nance December 7, 2014

San Francisco-based artist Lizabeth Eva Rossof created these familiary terracotta warriors to look like pop culture characters

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In 5tilt Tags art, mashup, chinese art, pop art

Magazine Covers Invade Classic Paintings

Ryan Nance October 7, 2014

Philippines-based artist Eisen Bernardo brings us this series of images titled Mag+Art.

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In 5tilt Tags pop art, paintings, funny
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Thirty-foot Hand-stitched Star Wars Tapestry

Ryan Nance February 17, 2014

The Bayeux Tapestry is the record of the Norman Invasion of England in 1066. In a similar style, London-based designer and illustrator Aled Lewis handstitched The Coruscant Tapestry, telling the entire Star Wars epic in pictures, and Aurebesh lettering.

Luke and Leia, Vader, the Clone Army, the Emperor, C3PO, Han; it's all there. And just $20,000 at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles.

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via My Modern Met
In 5tilt Tags star wars, pop art, los angeles, stitching
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Renaissance & Pop Art Mashed Together by Marco Battaglini

Ryan Nance October 15, 2013

Costa Rica based artist Marco Battaglini creates paintings often reminiscent of a Renaissance composition with classical figures and subject painted in with graffiti, tattoos, and nods to Warhol and Lichtenstein.

 

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via Beautiful Decay
In 5tilt Tags paintings, modern art, pop art, pop culture
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Pop-Art Portrait Paintings on World Coin

Ryan Nance September 27, 2013

Brazilian artist Andre Levy miniature portraits on coins of pop-art and pop-culture figures from Major Lazer and David Bowie to various X-Men and Thunder Cats to Finn from Adventure Time and Legolas from LOTR in his ongoing project.

See also Alien Nickels

 

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via DeMilked
In 5tilt Tags pop art, coins, money, comics, characters
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Mirrored Mannequins by Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen

Ryan Nance May 17, 2013

Artist Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen fashioned these four reflective mannequins covered in mirrors. Each was lit like a disco ball, and a person in a reflective body suit moved through the space during the reception.

Via Christian Larsen Gallery:

"The mirror surfaces of the mannequins turn our gaze back onto ourselves, forcing us to become aware of our own bodies and consumption habits. This way revealed, we can see ourselves as part of a much larger system, as complex and chaotic as ever the sculptures’ reflections on the walls."

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In 5tilt Tags art, pop art, sculpture, light, sweden
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Draw Homer - Artists from Around the World

Ryan Nance April 29, 2013

From the project page:​

The Mission

“Draw Homer” is an art project of world domination. 

We want the very best artists from all over the globe to draw Homer. Our ultimate goal is to have Matt Groening himself drawing one.

When we achieved our goal, we will make an art exhibition with the best Homers. And the best of the very best will get a really nice prize we cannot talk about yet.

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In 5tilt Tags art, pop art, homer, simpsons, drawing project, art project, tumblr
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Mini Sculptures On Pencil Leads

Ryan Nance April 25, 2013

Pencil Tip Carvings by Hedley Wiggan

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In 5tilt Tags sculpture, art, pop art, amazing
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Church Tanks by Kris Kuksi

Ryan Nance April 22, 2013

Kris Kuksi makes these startling sculptures, aptly named Church Tank, with the same macabre overabundance that has garnered such attention from the likes of Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labirynth).

“A post-industrial Rococo master, Kris Kuksi obsessively arranges characters and architecture in asymmetric compositions with an exquisite sense of drama. Instead of stones and shells he uses screaming plastic soldiers, miniature engine blocks, towering spires and assorted debris to form his landscapes.The political, spiritual and material conflict within these shrines is enacted under the calm gaze of remote deities and august statuary. Kuksi manages to evoke, at once, a sanctum and a mausoleum for our suffocated spirit.”

– Guillermo del Toro

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In 5tilt Tags sculpture, arts, pop art, top
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McPop Art and Other Package Paintings

Ryan Nance April 19, 2013

Australian artist Ben Frost uses the McDonald's french fries container, boxes from pharma and other packaging as his canvas in a street art style subversive series of pop art pieces. ​The full series on his site is deliciously dark and dapples in the pop art genres of hentai and erotic cartoons.

From his bio:

“Subverting mainstream iconography from the worlds of advertising, entertainment and politics, he (Frost) creates a visual framework that is bold, confrontational and often controversial.”

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In 5tilt Tags pop art, pop culture, art, series

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