SHADOW SCULPTURE

Feeling Rebloggy

"Dutch artist Diet Wiegman has spent the last 50 years carefully arranging pieces of trash and scrap metal to create incredibly beautiful and detailed shadow sculptures.

Looking at Diet Wiegman’s piles of junk you’re left wondering why on Earth would anyone think of them as art. There’s really nothing special about them, just a combination of scrap metal and various discarded objects that always seems to represent the same thing – chaos. But as soon as someone turns on the [little spot light] that always accompanies his works, the real masterpiece magically appears in the background.

After realizing the shadows cast by Wiegman’s trash puppets are the real artworks, viewers are puzzled by another question – how does he do it? "

~ OddityCentral.com

To read More And See More of Diet Wiegman's Art Click Right Here. But first watch this piece of junk turn into a Shadow Sculpture of somebody you must might recognize.

The Concept of Shadow Art Is Simple

But this is incredible, isn't it?  

Artist Unknown

YELLOW FEVER by Ng'endo Mukii

Using a combination of actors, animation, spoken word, and dance, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii examines the effects of having Eurocentric beauty ideals wash over you constantly from mainstream media sources such as movies, television, and magazines.



As rough as the colorism issue gets here in the United States, I don't think we have up to 65% to 70% of black women using skin bleaching products --percentages I've heard of in one African Country and a couple of Asian countries.


The film was a London Art College project. Only 7 minutes. Give it 2 or 3 minutes and see if you don't watch the whole thing.







CLICK HERE TO WATCH FILM AT OKAY AFRICA


Click Here for an alternate location to watch film - SHADOW AND ACT

ART: "The New Age Of Slavery" by Patrick Campbell

The New Age Of Slavery - Patrick Campbell. Coming to a Smithsonian Near You

POWER - Patrick Campbell

"Bodies hanging in the red stripes of the American flag and cracked stars. Never has a piece of art gripped me so hard and made me gasp.


It was like someone punched me in the chest and let the air out of me at the same time. The New Age of Slavery is the name of the work that has gone viral on the web this week, after the announcement that Eric Garner’s killer would not be indicted. It was especially shocking because Eric was placed in an illegal chokehold by a cop, and his last words (I can’t breathe) and last moments were on tape.

Those of us (me included) who have been calling for body cameras to be placed on cops immediately realized that it would solve very little (although it was just one step). In front of everyone was the indisputable fact that Black people are being lynched by the government, but instead of hanging in trees, we’re laying in the streets. And police are receiving the message loud and clear that they can do it without consequence.

So to see the piece of art was like having a bucket of cold water dumped on my head. It laid out the truth in acrylic and watercolor and it was beautiful in its honesty of an ugly reality. It ached and the paint that dripped down the canvas was crying for the lives of Black men, women and children lost.


http://thegrio.com/2014/12/06/new-age-of-slavery-painting-patrick-campbell/