Beauty will save

A snowman and two birds. Winter paintings by Kim Norlien, contemporary American artist

Winter paintings by Kim Norlien
Widely known outside his homeland, Norlien is a contemporary American artist. According to the artist, working on his paintings he traveled a lot in his childhood. In particular, he spent his childhood among the natural beauty of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Also, the artist grew up in the family of his grandmother and grandfather, whose house stood on the shore of the lake. After graduating from college in 1977, he worked eight years as a commercial artist for Honeywell, and then nine years as an illustrator.
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Gold fish. Fused and kiln-formed glass sculpture of fish. The Art of Glass Blowers

The Art of Glass Blowers
A wizard that creates products from the heated glass mass by blowing and other techniques is a glass blower. Needed, in particular, eye, good coordination, artistic taste, creativity and a sense of the so-called molten glass. Of course, glassblower must know the properties of glass, to understand the technology of glass blowing tube device, and be able to use it and other tools. Besides, he must have ways of blowing glass mass to be able to dispense. However, many of the skills only come with experience. For example, the ability to form a burner flame to determine whether a sufficient temperature to melt the glass.
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According to her collection, green and its shadows are her favorite. Noteworthy, colors of hats and coats always match. Elegant Queen Elizabeth II and her Hats

Queen Elizabeth II and her Hats
In addition to being British Queen, Elizabeth II (born 21 April, 1926) is a the real queen of hat style. Indeed, it is almost impossible to see Elizabeth II bareheaded in public events. Undoubtedly, the first association that comes to mind when we talk about Elizabeth is a hat.
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Sculpture of a dog. Hubcap creatures by Ptolemy Elrington, British artist and sculptor

Hubcap creatures by Ptolemy Elrington
According to Ptolemy Elrington, things utilitarian, or which give pleasure to the eye have the highest value. Besides, all around us are things of beauty and value, but their attributes – interpreted very subjectively. British artist and sculptor comes across many abandoned things and finds something more in them than their intrinsic worthlessness. Hubcaps, for instance. Ptolemy Elrington uses old BMW and Mercedes hubcaps to make dogs, fishes, birds, dragon and other sculptures from recycled materials. “I’m a real stickler for detail and try to work as closely as possible to photographs or the creatures I have seen at the sea life center”, – says Ptolemy.
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Legendary 200-Series Ikarus Bus – Trip to the Past

Noteworthy, Ikarus bus in 1970-80s was one of the largest in Europe. Meanwhile, founded in 1895 in Budapest, it was a small private company at the time. In fact, the company has reached a new level in the late 1960s with the commissioning of the plant in Szekesfehervar, and with annual capacity of 15 thousand buses, built specifically for the production models of the 200 series. Within the framework of trade agreements buses arrived in the CMEA countries, Algeria, Mozambique, Tanzania and other African countries. Besides, a special model was ​​for Germany and the Scandinavian countries. Ikarus is a bus manufacturer based in Budapest, Hungary. Uhri Imre Kovacs- Kocsigyarto Uzeme (roughly: “Imre Uhri’s Blacksmith Workshop and Coach Factory”).
However, Ikarus bus of 200-Series has almost gone into history. And this post is the trip to the past – photographs of buses built on the basis of the 200 series. Meanwhile, some have not reached neither the Soviet Union nor Russia, and some were released in single copies.
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Jessica Simson. Beautiful Gum Blonde. 2005. Bubblegum portraits by Jason Kronenwald, Canadian artist

Bubblegum portraits by Jason Kronenwald
Canadian artist Jason Kronenwald creates fascinating portraits of blonde celebrities – from Madonna to Avril and Britney Spears. Noteworthy, he doesn’t use any paint or dye for his portraits, they are all 100% chewed. According to the artist, if he needs to change color he mixes gums inside his mouth! Jason Kronenwald grew up in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from Queen’s University in Kingston with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1997. Currently he lives in Toronto with his wife Samantha, daughter Sadie and son Milo, making portraits out of chewed bubblegum called Gum Blondes.
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Violin player. Made from recycled material Incredible Junk Sculptures by James Leo Sewell, American artist

Junk Sculptures by James Leo Sewell
James Leo Sewell is an American artist, talented junk Sculptor, born in 1945 in Annapolis, Maryland, United States. He created these incredible sculptures from recycled materials. James Leo Sewell has produced over 4,000 works over the last 50 years. Featured in the permanent collections of 23 Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museums worldwide, as well as other museums and galleries. In particular, the American Visionary Art Museum, the Garbage Museum (Stratford, CT), the Shonandai Cultural Center (Fujisawa, Japan), Museo de Sera International (Madrid, Spain), Philadelphia’s Please Touch Museum, and the Chicago Children’s Museum. In addition, his work is in the collections of such corporations as Nike, Inc and NBC. James Leo Sewell has produced public art works for institutions including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and local state environmental protection offices.
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Heart installation. Life Is Love

Life Is Love
Is anyone sad in the world, I wonder?
Does anyone weep on a day like this,
With the sun above and the green earth under?
Why, what is life but a dream of bliss?

With the sun and the skies and the birds above me,
Birds that sing as they wheel and fly –
With the winds to follow and say they loved me –
Who could be lonely? O no, not I!
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Surreal Paper installations by Mia Pearlman, American artist

Paper installations by Mia Pearlman
American artist Mia Pearlman lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She creates breathtaking paper installations and ephemeral drawings that blur the line between actual, illusionist and imagined space. Sculptural and often glowing with natural or artificial light, these imaginary weather systems appear frozen in an ambiguous moment, bursting through walls and windows, or hovering within a room.
According to her biography, Mia Pearlman received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University in 1996. Her art works are exhibited internationally in numerous galleries, non-profit spaces and museums. In particular, the Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Plaatsmaken (Netherlands), Roebling Hall Gallery (NYC), Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY), and the Centre for Recent Drawing (London). Besides, Morgan Lehman Gallery (NYC) and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (AL), the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Manchester Art Gallery (UK).
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