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Gees Bend quilt

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Check out this great piece of art on Saatchi Online. Epílogos 2010 ["Epilogues 2010"] by Manuel Gamonal

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“Surrounded Islands”  by Christo and Jeanne-Claude || 1980-83 || Biscayne Bay, Miami, Florida

“Christo and Jeanne Claude created this Environmental artwork by surrounding 11 small islands with 6.5 million square feet of pink fabric.  Characteristically, the work existed for only two weeks.”

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Peter Gentenaar’s Ethereal Paper Sculptures Float in the Air Like Jellyfish

Peter Gentenaar‘s art was born out of the limitations of what he could (or couldn’t) create with store-bought paper. So with the help of the Royal Dutch Paper Factory, he built his own paper factory and devised a custom beater that processes and mills long-fiber paper pulp into the material you see in his artwork. He saw the potential that wet paper had when reinforced with very fine bambooribs, and he learned to form the material into anything his imagination would allow.

Gentenaar describes the process: “By beating my pulp very long, an extraordinary play of forces occurs during the drying processes of my paper sculpture. The paper will shrink considerably, up to 40%, and the forces associated with this put the non-shrinking bamboo framework under stress. The tension between the two materials transforms itself into a form reminiscent of a slowly curling autumn leaf.”

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Gorgeous floating sculptures from showslow-

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