Urban Kiev meets Classical Paintings

"For his ongoing series “Art History in Contemporary Life,” Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov takes scenes and figures lifted from classical paintings and drops them into modern-day life. Bouguereau’s Song of the Angels appears to take place on an empty subway car while a pair of men from Holbein’s famous The Ambassadors are transported to the table of a seedy bar.

Kondakov uses his own photographs of urban Kiev as a backdrop for gods, angels, and other figures from classical paintings which look like they’re joining your daily commute."

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Fictional Characters Infiltrate Art

TheGnarledBranch has inserted fictional characters into idyllic paintings... What kind of stories could your students come up with using this as a prompt? What fictional characters could they insert into famous art works?

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Beads + Patterns = Art

This installation took Liza Lou more than 5 years,and 30 million beads to create.

Her intricate bead patterns are a fantastic example of geometry and repeated patterns.

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Fruit Fractions

These images are great prompts for a maths session on fractions and patterns.

"Turkish artist Şakir Gökçebağ creates new geometric shapes by cutting into various fruits and vegetables. Each redefined shape in his series of food art is crafted with precision and aligned accordingly. The arrangements created by Gökçebağ present interesting patterns that are, no pun intended, a feast for the eyes!"

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Continuum of Choice

David Zinn's Chalk Art

David Zinn creates inventive and cheeky chalk street art that plays with depth and perspective.

 

See more of his work here: 

http://zinnart.com/