Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and activist, has attached 14,000 life jackets used by refugees to Berlin’s Konzerthaus concert hall. The public art installation is a tribute to the refugees that died at sea in an attempt to escape war and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa.
Animations by Toby Morris and Siouxsie Wiles show importance of social distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak. After being published in New Zealand, these illustrations have now gone viral all around the world.
A Spanish artist that transforms street art graffiti into animated GIFs.
Kandinsky was one of the creators of the first modern abstract paintings. He has been called the “Father of Abstract Art“. Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He believed he could convey emotions through the colors he was inspired by.
Adrian Frutiger’s Form and Counterforms is a graphic artwork series that features a common concept of using black filled forms to produce counterforms that are the result of the ‘negative space’ that is contained by the initial black forms.
Josef Albers is an American-German artist best known for his color square paintings—the Homage to the Square series. The paintings in the series is formed by colored squares. “The arrangement of these squares is carefully calculated so that the color of each square optically alters the sizes, hues, and spatial relationships of the others. ” He also explored a lot of other abstract art in black and white.
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