[PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLAGES] Philipp Igumnov a.k.a. woodcum

Step right in and expand the limits of vision with Philipp Igumnov's surreal photographic collages.

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[PAINTING] [COLLAGE] Damien Hirst Real Butterflies Canvases

Damien Hirst posing in front of his butterfly painting "I Am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds"

English artist Damien Hirst has always been under scrutiny from animal rights advocators, but his latest exhibit at The Tate Modern museum has PETA activists enraged. The artist killed 9,000 butterflies, or left to die naturally in an enclosed transparent room. Both the museum and the artist explain the butterflies were of species known to live longer.

Leaving that aside, Damien Hirst's butterflies canvases are amazing intricate works. The kind that leaves you mesmerized the more you look into it. Still, some of the paintings are actually made of real dead butterflies caught in the paint.

"You paint the walls white, and then life comes in and fucks it up. Like minimal paintings that have been fucked up by butterflies landing in paint" Damien Hirst.

 Butterfly painting

 Tranquility

 I Am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds

The Explosion

[COLLAGE] [ILLUSTRATION] [PAINTING] by Claudio Parentela

 Claudio Parentela is an illustrator and cartoonist based in Italy. As you will see for yourself, this is an artist with quite a unique view of the world. He has illustrated poems and comic books, of the underground art world.

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[COLLAGE] Elliott Hundley

"Mining the nostalgic and sentimental qualities of his eclectic materials, Elliott Hundley’s collages create condensed ‘dreamscapes’, entwining the personal and symbolic into friable mythologies. Hundley engages with the dramatic in the staged emotiveness of his structures and in the performative element of their intensive making process.



From a distance, Hundley’s Hyacinth exudes a painterly expressiveness, which dissolves on close inspection into clusters of tiny figures, magazine clippings and bits of fabric precariously held in place by pins. Using formalism as a platform for narrative structure, Hundley’s exquisitely delicate consternation transforms the act of looking into an adventure of exploration and discovery. " source