Wietske

I'm an illustrator and I like to keep record/reblog/post every sort of thing I find inspiring, jaw-dropping, amazing, funny and all that stuff in between! My work (and info about me) can be found on my work tumblr, instagram and otherwise on my website: Wietske Andringa

[itscolossal]

Everyday Plastic Objects Fill a Scottish Greenhouse With Faux Flora

[sagansense]

This Is What Climate Change Really Looks Like Around The World

Source: Gabriel H. Sanchez for @buzzfeed​

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Miquel Muerto  -  http://pollomuerto.com  -  https://twitter.com/pollomuerto  -  https://www.facebook.com/pollomuerto  -  https://www.instagram.com/pollomuerto

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Andrew Hem  -  http://idrewhim.blogspot.com.es  -  https://www.facebook.com/andrew.hem  -  https://www.instagram.com/andrewhem/?hl=e  -  https://www.artsy.net/artist/andrew-hem

[crossconnectmag]

New sculptures from Erika Sanada.  See our previous posts.

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Posted by Lisa.

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Feifei Ruan

https://www.behance.net/feifeiruan

Check us out on Instagram: @Lesstalkmoreillustration

[criwes]

Portrait of Yue Minjun in his studio in Beijing.

[allsadnshit]

i probably think about this picture at least once a day 

[reversecentaur]

the inevitable conclusion

[chaoflaka]

So 2016 is SO bad that it made the creator of this meme give us an alternative version of “This is Fine”. 

[itscolossal]

New Public Geometric Sculptures by David Mesguich

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Frederick Douglass Was the Most Photographed American of the 19th Century

Do you know who the most photographed American of the 19th century was? It’s not George Custer (155 photos) or Walt Whitman or Abraham Lincoln (130 each). The person with the most portraits made of them in the 1800s was Frederick Douglass, the African-American abolitionist, speaker, writer, and statesman. That’s the finding that has just been published in a new book titled “Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American.”

Extensive research revealed that Douglass was a leading pioneer in photography who sat for as many portraits as he could in order to combat blackface caricatures and to assert the humanity of African Americans in place of slavery.

Douglass believed that photographs were a powerful means of “moral and social” influence, allowing the poor and oppressed to find self-confidence.

“The humblest servant girl may now possess a picture of herself such as the wealth of kings could not purchase 50 years ago,” he wrote.

There are 160 surviving portraits of Douglass, created between 1841 to 1895, and the collection represents a powerful timeline of his legacy as a man, artist, and leader. Many of the photos were found by scouring hundreds of libraries, museums, schools, societies, archives, and auction houses in the US and in Europe. Some of the original photos were previously sold for over $10,000 each.

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Post-Soviet Fables (FMP project) by Irina Shi (Lavrischeva).

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Nicole Xu on inprnt and Tumblr

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So Super Awesome is also on Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram

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Victo Ngai  -  http://victo-ngai.com  -  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Victo-Ngai/191921997526155  -  https://www.behance.net/victo  -  https://twitter.com/victongai  -  http://victo-ngai.mysupadupa.com  -  http://victo-ngai.blogspot.com.es

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Wouter Tulp  -  http://woutertulp.tumblr.com  -  https://twitter.com/woutertulp  -  https://www.facebook.com/woutertulp  -  http://woutertulp.blogspot.com.es  -  https://vimeo.com/user4778202  -  http://tulptorials.blogspot.com.es  -  https://plus.google.com/110492088926818707357  -  https://es.pinterest.com/wtulp  -  http://t-u-l-p.deviantart.com  -  https://nl.linkedin.com/in/woutertulp  -  http://www.woutertulp.com  -  https://www.behance.net/wtulp

[crossconnectmag]

Mitch Griffiths (born in Nuneaton in 1971) uses a traditional, almost forgotten style of painting, inspired by the light and composition of Old Master paintings, but he uses this style to depict the issues concerning 21st-century British society. His main subject is the transient and throwaway nature of contemporary culture, which is held in stark contrast to the permanence and indelibility of oil paint on canvas via

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There’s just two weeks left to view Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose an exclusive exhibition featuring more than 50 world-renowned artists such as Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Camille Rose Garcia, James Jean, Yoshitomo Nara, Mark Ryden, Todd Schorr, Wayne White, Kehinde Wiley, and others that have never been shown collectively at once. This once-in-a-lifetime exhibition ends December 31 at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Read more on Colossal. [sponsored]

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Ustensiles, Demeures, Escaliers de Jean Dubuffet, 1967. Galerie Jeanne Bucher