Form of art is an abstraction. In reality, art has no form, it is only just a perspective. Art is created to delight, surprise, and sometimes shock the public. Creative people are always a little crazy. There are no limits to their imagination. Here are the most unusual types of modern art.
Anamorphosis
The Anamorphosis is a technique of creating images that can only be fully understood from a certain point or angle. In some cases, a normal image only appears when you look at the image through a mirror. One of the earliest known examples of anamorphosis is some works by Leonardo da Vinci from the 15th century.
Caricature
A caricature is a drawing in which the desired characters are depicted in a comic but at the same time kind-hearted form. Most often, the artist paints portraits in this style, but a group of people or even animals can be depicted.
Photorealism
The photorealist movement emerged in the 1960s. The creators tried to create strikingly realistic images, no different from photographs. They copied even the smallest details from photographs and created their paintings. There is also a movement called superrealism or hyperrealism, which includes not only painting but also sculpture. He was quite strongly influenced by modern pop art culture.
Painting dirty cars
Drawing on an unwashed car is often not considered high art, because most of these “artists” rarely write anything more than “wash me”. But the 52-year-old American designer Scott Wade became famous for his amazing drawings. that he creates on the windows of cars dusted on Texas roads. At first, Wade painted on car windows with fingers or sticks, but now he uses special tools and brushes.
Use of bodily fluids – strange form of art
It may seem strange, but there are plenty of artists who create their works using bodily fluids. For example, the Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch uses urine and huge amounts of animal blood in his work. Brazilian artist Vinicius Quesada is known for his series of paintings called “Blood and Urine Blues”. It is noteworthy that Quesada works only with his blood. His paintings create a dark surreal atmosphere.
Drawing with body parts – form of art that is controversial
Recently, the popularity of artists who use parts of their bodies to draw has been growing. For example, Tim Patch, who is known under the pseudonym “Pricasso” (in honor of the great Spanish artist Pablo Picasso), paints with his … reproductive organ. In addition, the 65-year-old Australian artist regularly uses his buttocks and scrotum as a paintbrush. Patch has been engaged in such creativity for more than a decade, and its popularity grows every year.
Reverse 3D visualization
While with anamorphosis artists try to make two-dimensional objects three-dimensional, reverse 3D visualization is designed for the opposite – to make a three-dimensional object look like a drawing or painting. The most notable artist in this area is Alexa Mead from Los Angeles. He uses non-toxic acrylic paints to make people look like lifeless two-dimensional paintings.
Shadow art – form of art that looks the hardest
Shadows are ephemeral in nature, so it’s hard to say when people first started using them in art. Modern artists have achieved amazing mastery in working with shadows. They decompose various objects so that their shadow creates beautiful images of people, words, or objects. Since shadows are traditionally associated with something mysterious or mystical, many artists use themes of horror or devastation in their works.
Reverse graffiti – clean form of art
Like painting dirty cars, the art of reverse graffiti is about creating images by removing dirt rather than adding paint. Artists often use water hoses to remove dirt and exhaust soot from walls to create amazing paintings. The movement was born thanks to English artist Paul “Muz” Curtis, who painted a picture on the black, smoky wall of a restaurant where he washed dishes as a teenager. Another British artist, Ben Long, creates his paintings on the back of trailers, using his finger to remove dirt from the exhaust.
The illusion of body art
Body painting or body art has been around for a long time, even the Mayans and ancient Egyptians tried their hand at this type of art. The modern illusion of body art is the coloring of a person’s body to blend in with the surrounding background or in some other way deceive the eye. Some people paint themselves to look like animals or cars, while others use paint to create the illusion of holes in their skin.
Light graphics – form of art that fades away
Strangely enough, some of the first attempts at light painting were not seen as art at all. Frank and Lilian Gilbreth (characters of the novel “Wholesale Cheaper”) became famous for increasing the efficiency of workers. As early as 1914, they started using light and a camera with an open shutter to record the movements of individual employees. By studying the resulting light images, they hoped to find ways to make their work simpler and easier. In the art world, this method appeared in 1935, when the surrealist artist Man Ray photographed himself surrounded by streams of light using a camera with an open shutter.