Love it or Hate it: Vanessa Beecroft's Shocking and Confrontational Art

"Vanessa Beecroft is an artist known for her performance art based on social and cultural commentary. Her images are extremely striking and her concepts deeply evolved. “There is a passive aggressive beauty to this art,” said Roberta Smith for the New York Times" says Cyanatrendland.

Indeed, Beecroft's art is subversive and confrontational because it challenges and invades our comfort zones in a serene and beautiful but powerful way. Check out the graphic and stunning video of one of Beecroft's public performances protesting the massacre that goes on in Darfur. The video is called: VB61 - Still Death! Darfur Still Deaf? In this shocking video you will see lots of black bodies--or bodies that were painted black-- lying motionless on the ground in an enormous pool of blood.













Vanessa Beecroft

Weird Fish with a See-Through Head

"With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes--topped by green, orblike lenses--in a picture released today but taken in 2004.

The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California's central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact."









Via National Geographic

Amazing Neo-Classical Sculptures Carved out of Fruits and Vegetables

These exquisite images come from a print commercial for WMF Knives which is a German-based company that has been manufacturing table and kitchenware products for over 150 years.

The sculpted mini replicas of famous works of arts on fruits and vegetables are supposed to highlight just how sharp WMF’s knives are. One of the masterpieces showcased is that of the 19th century Italian Neo-classical sculptor Antonio Canova’s “The Three Graces”. Fantastic work!










Via Ads of the World