When Art Meets Poetry
Today is World Poetry Day, the annual celebration of all things prosaic and poetic. The perfect opportunity to share your favourite poem with the world, or perhaps even have a...
Category "Arts"
Popular Cartography: Your Favourite Pop Titles Charted on One World Map
Who doesn’t like maps? Maps are great. They’re not only useful, but attractive to look at, too. Something about the arrangement of line and colour draws our gaze; from a...
Zim & Zou’s Whimsical Wonderland is a Feast for the Eyes
If you’re a regular visitor to Visual Broadcast, you’ll know we’re huge fans of papercraft, and you just might recall an article I wrote back in May 2016 presenting twelve...
In Anticipation of ‘Loving Vincent’, Five of Van Gogh’s Later Paintings
Almost a year ago, we published an article about Loving Vincent, the Van Gogh biopic animated entirely from oil paintings. In anticipation of its release, let’s take a look at...
Place Your Bets: The Winner of the Turner Prize is Announced Tonight
The Turner Prize, as you know, is an annual art prize that gets people engaging with contemporary art. Everyone loves to tut at an oblique and apparently frivolous artwork, but...
Born on this Day: William Blake – Poet, Artist, Visionary
Visionary artist William Blake was born in Soho on the 28th November 1757. He left school at ten to attend a drawing academy in the Strand and read voraciously, going...
Newton Ingestore Might Well Realign Your Reality – A Rare Interview
Newton Ingestore seems to live in an alternate space/time continuum to the rest of us. His illustration is bold, dynamic and uncompromising with lines that are sometimes fluid and amorphously...
A Halloween Treat: Memento Mori Through the Ages
On Halloween, people dress up as ghosts and ghouls and watch films about hauntings and death. Skulls become a more than usually appropriate form of decoration, but in the painting...
Take a Walk Down Alphabet Street with Lola Dupre
Producing a typographic series is a staple job of graphic designers. Aside from drawing letterforms digitally or on paper, designers occasionally find characters in existing objects, or build them somehow....
InkTober: Time to Brush Up on your Ink Drawing
If you’ve been on Instagram in the past week or so, you’ve most likely encountered the hashtag #inktober. But what is InkTober and where did it come from? For the...
Zhou Fan’s Kaleidoscopic Paintings Blend Dreams with Reality
The open road below rolls to the horizon, an endless strip of potential, a passport to adventure. Somewhere along the journey, the sky has fractured into horizontal bands of colour...
Miniature Elephants March Proudly Atop a Carpenter’s Pencil
If you’re anything like me, when you were a child you were amazed at world records for writing the alphabet on a grain of rice and other inconceivable feats of...
12 Creatives Who Have Mastered the Art of Papercraft
While the earliest type of paper can be traced all the way back to around 100 A.D., it wasn’t until 105 A.D. that the art of papermaking came about. A...
Happy Birthday Martin Puryear, Why Didn’t You Just Get Your Sculptures Out of a Skip?
American sculptor Martin Puryear was born on this day in 1941. In his youth he built musical instruments, boats and tools using traditional methods before coming to fine art. Throughout...
Drawing a Bicycle from Memory is Not Nearly as Simple as it Sounds
In Pink Floyd’s idiosyncratic song ‘Bike’ Syd Barrett sings, “I’ve got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It’s got a basket, a bell that rings and things...
Alexander Aksinin’s Prints were Marked by Precision, Idiosyncrasy, and an Air of the Esoteric
In 1949 a Russian-like man was born in a European-like city of Lvov. Christian Orthodox. 1972 – a diploma of Ukrainian Institute of Printing, with specialization on Graphics. 1966 –...
Sara Landeta’s Beautiful Birds Evoke Feelings of Freedom in Captivity
The bird has long been a symbol of freedom. Its wings can raise it off the ground and into the sky, bridging the gap between Heaven and Earth. But it...
Maja Wronska’s Watercolours are an Exercise in Expressive Precision
Maja Wronska’s stunning watercolours present the character and personality of the built environment through work that is at once precise and expressive. She captures the unique charm and grandeur of...
Political Artist Biancoshock Wants You to Know About the 600 People Living in Bucharest Sewers
Art has many functions, but can be broadly divided into personal and social intentions. These are not always clear cut and art is not usually made with a specific considered...
Welcome to the Stardust Motel: Sunny Memories of Holidays Gone By
Anna Carey must have an excellent memory. She hasn’t seen the Australian motels her models are based upon since childhood, but builds them retrospectively in extraordinary detail, happily allowing her...