Open art

Imagine a world where your dreams and the way they distort reality can be reproduced on canvas, paper or some other material on which artists paint. Doesn’t

„Shopped!“, is the constant cry of internet's sceptic and avid web browser. But after seeing Thomas Barbéy's works many sceptics are pleased to say “'Shopped”. Barbéy's surrealistic manipulations are not only works of retouching and airbrushing - he also sticks the negatives together, photographs them, uses other techniques to reach the concept vision he had in his mind first – but few are able to resist the gripping illusion. Isn't illusions what people are looking for in life and art?

They may have been way more advanced back then. Disclaimer: if you don't love unicorns and rainbows, you might be inclined to disagree.

There are a lot of issues in today's society. Addiction to social media, devaluation of workers, unhealthy lifestyles, and that's just a few of them. A lot of us don't even notice these problems; we either ignore them or don't run into them at all. However, artist John Holcroft tackles them head-on and illustrates the issues of today's world in his satirical and honest art.

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Artist Jim Warren's surreal paintings for his ongoing series titled Ripping portrays children and disembodied adult hands ripping through the canvas into

Covers for "Incontro", Compass magazine

These wonderful illustrations created by Paweł Kuczyński will let you see how books influence our lives. When it comes to showing the role of books in our lives, illustrations from the Polish desig…

Fiction can reveal what truly makes us human, what makes us real.

Dutch artist Ramon Bruin uses nothing but paper, pen, and cleverly positioned props, to create the illusion of depth. He calls the technique ‘anamorphosis’, but refuses to explain exactly how it's done.