Have you ever wondered what would happen if Ace Ventura and The Joker were in one movie? What about Deadpool and Vincent Vega teaming up? No? Well, this Hungarian artist has, and he created these funny edits to show us what that would look like.
Pixelfaker takes characters that we all know and love and places them into movies and TV shows they really don’t belong in—by doing that, he creates amazing scenes that look hilarious. Most of us would probably want to see half of these movies or shows.
Pejac (previously), real name Silvestre Santiago, is a Spanish painter and street artist whose works include outdoor murals, often utilising trompe-l’œil techniques. Santiago was born in Santander, Cantabria, Spain in 1977. He studied fine art, first at Salamanca, then Barcelona, and finally at Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano “Brera”. He worked at Norway’s NuArt Festival in 2015. The same year, he painted site-specific works in Hong Kong and Tokyo. He has also worked in the Husn refugee camp in Amman, Jordan, creating silhouette images by scraping paint off old walls. As of 2014, he was again living in Santander.
According to an artist: “The idea of the “Strength” project arises as a gesture of gratitude to the health workers of Valdecilla for their work in general and during this COVID crisis in particular by offering them what I do best, which is painting.”
“Marking this historic moment in global history, a pandemic that strongly affected my homeland, taking over 50,000 lives so far, I recently created 3 interventions at University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla in my hometown Santander. Titled after the quality of being strong, much-needed in the world we live in today, and especially within the walls of a hospital complex, “Strength” addresses 3 different aspects of the current crisis and proposes ways we could respond to them.
From the first moment, the hospital has been receptive and enthusiastic and that has made the project flow in a harmonious and easy way. In addition, they have given me total creative freedom and it has been a luxury to have their trust and support.”
“Social Distancing is a trompe l’oeil intervention that creates an illusion of a deep, gaping crevice on the rigid surface of a cement wall. Made from countless human silhouettes that are trying to escape it, I wanted to represent the wound that this pandemic has left and do it as a tribute to health workers for their respect and solidarity towards the victims. While the image serves as a metaphor for the damage done by the pandemic, it also literally proposes social distancing as a way to fix it. In between the large crowd, I included scenes of reunion, empathy, care, and love, suggesting a door to a better, hopeful future.”
Overcoming
Overcoming is the second piece from the series, which was realized with on-hand help by young oncology patients. Depicting a child recreating Van Gogh’s Wheat Field with Cypresses with his hands, the piece is somewhat a take on a work I created in Norway in 2015, showing a boy recreating Munch’s Scream with his toy cars. In the piece, a child is propped on a wheelchair, able to paint higher than the rest. This is something that we, as a society, could do—take this crisis and use it to propel us forward.
Caress
“Caress is the final piece that poetically describes the new dynamics of the relationship between the patients and the health workers imposed by the COVID virus. While physically standing distant and only looking at each other, their shadows are depicting the need and wish to return to physical contact. I also added a sense of serenity and beauty by turning their shadows into a colorful and peaceful pond with water lilies, paying homage to one of my favorite painters, Monet, along the way.”
Have you ever wondered what happens in the backstage of Disney movies? Andhika Muksin is back on Bored Panda to show you just that. He creates hilarious edits of Disney movies so that we can see the behind the scenes of famous scenes and how they were “actually made.”
“As a Disney fan since childhood, I’ve never stopped loving them even after I went into adulthood. But as I grow older, I start to see these childhood icons in a new light; we see things differently than when we were children. So this is basically how I come up with my ideas, bringing these childhood icons into a more of an ‘adult’ perspective, in a comedic way,” artist told Bored Panda.
“I’ve always been into drawings for as long as I can remember. And collage art/pop art has always fascinated me. It’s like giving a different personality to pre-existing images. I guess I inherited this from my father’s side of the family. Both my father and grandfather paint, although they do it more as a hobby.”
The artist does all sorts of creative projects on his Instagram—from remaking movies and TV show posters, to combining celebrities to see how their children would look, to drawing his own concept art. His work is often humorous, full of pop culture references and even TikTok trends.
Andhika usually works with Disney, but other popular shows and movies also show up on his feed, like Studio Ghibli and Netflix Originals. He also enjoys photoshopping celebrity photos, red carpet events, and fashion shows.
Japanese Twitter user Shuka is a stop motion animator and “mecha designer” who specializes in crafting cyberpunk-themed items and accessories. The talented artist has recently gained some attention on Twitter for designing an awesome cyberpunk-themed Japanese demon mask!
The cyberpunk creation is a twist on traditional Japanese demon (oni) masks featured in Noh theater. Shuka says the mask provides a good field of vision, and plans to install mesh to make the wearer’s eyes not visible from the outside.
Banksy has posted a picture of a mural of a girl hula-hooping on social media, ending speculation over whether he was behind the work. The mural appeared on a wall on the corner of Rothesay Avenue in Lenton, Nottingham.
Painted in black and white, the tongue-in-cheek image sits just behind a battered bike chained to a lamp post with an infinity lock. The bike is missing a tyre. Surinder Kaur, who runs the beauty salon next to the artwork, said the bike had appeared at the same time as the mural.
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She said within hours the council had rushed to protect the piece by placing clear plastic sheeting over it. Vandals have spray-painted over the plastic two or three times already.
“Everyone is very excited and many, many people are coming to see the picture,” Kaur said. “Everyone was confused about whether it was real or not real but it’s an amazing picture, it’s amazing art.”
Monge is known for his range of figurative character paintings and beautifully composed patterns, which has led him to collaborations with esteemed clients such as Apple, The Guardian, Airbnb, Hermes, Playboy, Mercedes, to name a few. His artworks are influenced by artists such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and André Derain—a distinctively fluid and playful style which he reinterprets in a contemporary context. In his paintings, Quentin captures a fascinating world of sea life and summer relaxation, taking us on a visual journey through Monge’s own creative origins and growth as an artist. Directly inspired by his childhood days in the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, in the south of France where he currently resides, his pictorial work is characterized by an harmonious scheme of shapes and soft color, with summer as its undisputed protagonist.
“‘Materialism’ confronts the viewer on a very elementary level with the things we surround ourselves with and the materials that comprise them,” explains the studio, founded by Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta. The studio reprocessed man-made items including a Volkswagen Beetle car, a Gazelle bicycle, a Russian AK-47 machine gun, and an iPhone 4 among other objects, in a process they refer to as ‘de-producing’—pulling apart the kind of items that we tend to only focus on their function. The products are reduced to the exact quantity of the specific raw materials from which they are made; they are then shown in the form of the rectangular blocks pictured below. The studio has conceptualized this so as to make an artistic commentary on the amount of natural resources and human labor needed in the manufacturing of each item’s production, something the studio believes we fail to properly appreciate or understand. In their own words that follow, they elaborate:
“Everything that is bought and consumed has an impact, reinforcing complex systems of resource extraction, labor, manufacturing, and distribution. ‘Materialism’ works to reveal the dimensions of the materialism these systems feed, illuminating the excessive use of the earth’s gifts, irreplaceable matter that humans incessantly rip away from it, squander, and then dispose of with little thought. Understood this way, in pursuit of the most basic things, like a pencil or a plastic water bottle, people are collectively acting as a deviant child stealing from his mother.
Drawing connections between materials and space, the pieces comprising Kiessling’s exhibition are made from items we encounter in urban areas: in construction sites, public spaces, and buildings we commonly interact with. His two sculptures titled ‘And the world turned silent for a little while Rot/Weiss’; encompass two old steel doors that were crushed by an 800 kilogram concrete weight, painted in red and white respectively. Other works include a series of wall-mounted sculptures made from repurposed bicycle parts, that aim to represent themes of property in public spaces: “The bicycle stands for mobility and independence, though through choice of model and color it also stands for individuality and differentiation,” explains Kiessling’s exhibition statement. “The bicycle has been forgotten or left behind, rusted and broken on the street. But it shows the divided relationship of an affluent society to its artifacts.”
Combined into abstract sculptures and covered with fresh paint, the discarded objects are transformed into new works that highlight the tension between individuality and mass production. “Detached from their initial function, the found objects can be read as symbols of a society that is moving towards a collective state of insecurity,” the statement continues. “Our environment is built from geometric and symmetrical construction materials. These materials will be the elements on which the forces of the exhibition will rub off, will cause them to totter and destroy their symmetry.” ‘Taumel’ will run at alexander levy gallery in Berlin until October 24, 2020. For more information on the exhibition, click here.
The piece is part of the group exhibition ‘The power of things’. This new work is one of Erlich’s numerous installations that seemingly defy the laws of gravity, by warping the everyday function of a staircase. Naturally, a normal staircase is a construction that provides transit between two different areas—in Erlich’s artwork, as the audience begins to interact with it, they are immersed into a physical space with a never-ending stairwell that continues forever. Beyond sheer enjoyment of the piece, Erlich aims to ask us to question our relationship with reality in an everyday context.
Working with themes of the body and tactile experience, Thrane strives to create large-scale works that elicit a feeling of closeness. Her process involves selecting materials and using physical activities such as folding, stacking, bending, squeezing, stretching, dipping, and tying. “The works therefore function as a form of registration of these bodily actions, as well as the physicality, temporality, and changeability that are basic conditions of our existence,” she explains. “There is necessity and a certain enjoyment in protesting against notions of good taste, or against the order of things. To sabotage smooth edges and right angles and make them crooked, using homemade or natural processes that relate back to the body and personal experience.” Her works demonstrate how her creative process is affected by her everyday surroundings; whereby the different textures, surfaces, and color palettes intersect to form a cohesive and interesting visual result.
