The authors invest a huge amount of soul, emotion and, of course, time into their works of art. But there are some works that are distinguished by their expressiveness of detail, scale, subtlety of work and which take a lot of time.
Artists know that the process is as important as the end result. In fact, the time they spend working can directly affect on how powerful and impressive maybe they'll get it creation at the end.
During his life he focused on the problems of phenomena and type. He is currently researching and improving the use of digital computer technology in serigraphy. Sometimes they use their old ideas that were previously processed by another technique.
It is represented in many public and private collections, both in the Czech Republic and in Europe, Asia and America. The exhibition by Daniela Baračkova and Petra Gerotova presents a variety of works with a thematic intersection in the village of Cerna Gora, where both artists lived in different time. With Montenegro they have life stories with common denominators. Daniela grew up here, and Peter came here for a short time. Both now live with each other, but a close connection to this community is common to them.
Check out these 20 time-consuming art masterpieces that are worth the effort.
1. Drawings on Snow
Simon Beck creates huge geometric patterns and figures with their boots just walking in the snow. He walks around the field for hours to make these impressive drawings. And sometimes you even have to retrace your steps because the snow covers your tracks. An incredibly labor-intensive process.
The exhibition features drawings, paintings and videos created over the past few years. The exception is "The Legend of the Black Hill", which directly arose for this exhibition as a quotation and self-reflection of some of their work so far, but also as a specific "video tour" of important places in Montenegro. Petra Gerotová's paintings were created when she lived in Cerna Hora and worked at the Blansko City Gallery. The drawings were constantly created from her inner need to reflect her own situation.
Daniela Baračková created her paintings and videos, by contrast, in Prague, where she studied and lives with a healthy distance and some irony. His artistic concept was shaped by his youth, when he completed a series of paths through the desert as a reflection of the inner need to get closer to the secrets of nature and observing the wonder that happens. Since the early 1960s, he has photographed, painted, collected, and written about his observations of nature during his wanderings.
2. Hyper-realistic drawings of “eyes” in pencil.
Eyes are the mirror of the soul. It's not for nothing that artists spend countless hours of work to capture the sparkle of the iris, every eyelash and tiny wrinkles of the eyelids.
Currently teaching the disciplines and multimedia relationship between nature and art as natural needs of the mind and focuses on immediate creative possibilities, based on the historical relationship between humanized landscapes and untouched nature. Milos Šein participates in many public and group projects, symposiums and seminars. He gives lectures, writes texts, essays, illustrates books, and spin films. It also focuses on multimedia, curation and design phase.
In his playful, but not superficial way, he explores the roles and positions of man in social system and his personal environment in which he moves daily. Any deviation from the equilibrium state triggers a series of causes that make it more difficult to return to a new balance. The kitten sees a friend in the audience who begins his colorful, but somewhat limited world. Rules, rituals, stereotypes or isolation prevent honest and open representation. Because of her generally conveyed theme of childhood, school and group behavior, the viewer is easily drawn into her world and can be projected into her place.
3. Landscapes from books
Guy Laramie transforms old and voluminous encyclopedias into model landscapes. The artist never rushes and carves mountain landscapes, ledges and depressions with great expressiveness.
Despite the varied nature of the media she uses, her work is recognizable by its silliness and suppressed screaming. Alisa Nikitin's exhibition in Blansko almost coincided with her final participation in the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize. This fact is not only an assessment of her talent, but also a signal that something is happening even in Czech painting.
The show's guest was a generation older artist, Ian Turner. Turner is dedicated to painting, construction and installation. He also often looks for everyday objects to combine their meaning with their combinations. He also approaches art with a disarming vision. At the exhibition in Blansku, her objects are emphasized as the author of the joint rescue of everyday objects from their functionality and the transfer of the invisible sphere to the sphere is stiffly, clearly present.
4. Handmade leather paintings
Mark Evans paints stunning pictures with a knife. Instead of using a brush to create the animal image, the artist decided to carefully cut and clean the skin in order to achieve the desired result.
South Bohemian sculptor, painter, photographer and curator Michal Škoda is one of the most remarkable and talented middle-aged artists. The problem is the space and the relationships within it. Since the beginning of the year, he has been creating installations that deal with issues related to social, physical and gender identity. In his work, he intuitively applies sociological research methods, focusing on specific phenomena, for example, on the phenomena of adolescence, aging, death, violence.
Her works can be interpreted as studies in the field of the language of art - in its function of defining the relationship of the individual and the social and biological structures in which he is embedded. Milena Dopitova is a conceptual artist who, among other things, actively reflects the position of women in modern society and culture. Since the only artist - participant participated in the activities of the group on Monday, founded this year.
5. Multi-level painted sculptures
Keng Lai creates works of art that fall somewhere between painting and sculpture. He pours several layers of liquid resin, paints them acrylic paints and waits for the layer to dry before starting another. It takes a lot of time, but the result exceeds all expectations.
Alena Fostova is a new name on our current art scene, but now she performs with a mature, confident look, like a mature artist. Meanwhile, Canada had the opportunity to become acquainted with the culture and the first inhabitants, the Inuit, but it also knew how to manage the media in modern world, today with us is the same as being in Canada.
Vladimir Hudek - minor revelation for "bringing together artists and academic friends." Suddenly he appeared as quickly as he had appeared in a relatively a short time. He only started working on his daily tasks as an artist less than three years ago. From the very beginning, painting cannot be imagined as anything other than an intense process and uncompromising expression that requires personal emotional investment.
6. Wire sculptures
Song Mo Park works with steel wire to create realistic sculptures. He is very meticulous, carefully and tightly twisting the wire to achieve these incredible works.
As an inevitable and obsessive motif, the forest, the hunting area or the shapeless, impenetrable Khoushtin - an object with a special function - is an important, inevitable and obsessive motive. The creation of Pavel Kachirkov is very diverse, and the terms are courageous, generous, emotional, minimal or, conversely, maximum form, concept and playfulness. In particular, this project covers the Crossroads project and the unfinished Chapel project in the Sharov area. The sculptures have a simple, clear form that is heavily influenced by the landscape.
The individual concrete crosses - in their simple yet brutal form, they capture the weight of the cross while also framing the view into the landscape and giving them the ability to cross the cross. Another position of the sculptural works is sophisticatedly playful when in the cast iron sheep draws soft sheep lines with the metal, which leaves it in a rough shape due to the casting. In Pavlov's sculptures there is always an important context, the landscape or city in which he sets the work. Installation, and especially video installation, is another area of Pavla's creation, using digital media for video projection, animation, audio and music videos and many graphic design implementations.
8. Animal sculptures made from wood shavings
Sergei Bobkov was an ordinary school teacher until he became interested in creating animal sculptures from ordinary wood shavings. He spends 10 to 12 hours a day creating his incredibly realistic sculptures. Each job can take several months of painstaking work.
A special chapter is conceptual work, for example, when digitally reformatting world paintings into a single A4 format, or when translucent paintings are overlapped, each layer moves slightly - the image is a hundred times in front, but the shape is blurred, unreadable. The layering principle has been used in experiments with sound.
In addition, the gallery’s program will include a pilgrimage to the chapels and a crossroads to Sharov, thanks to which we will participate in the revival of the landscape and art project. The landscape of my surroundings is often manipulated into a whimsical or dreamy plane, making it a platform for a personal story.
9. Balancing stones
Landscape designer Michael Grab carefully balances cobblestones and stones different sizes without the help of any adhesive. The time-consuming process requires a lot of concentration and patience.
An important aspect of my work in last years is precise work with details, as auxiliary element Images. The Denis Kraus exhibition was designed by Petra Gerotová as a project of the city gallery Blansko, which will also help promote the gallery. At this exhibition it is also planned to hold a seminar in the presence of the curator or author.
The quiet and focused qualities of Mert's work seemed to create a certain barrier that prevented loud recognition of his exceptionalism and politeness with the definitive manifestations of twentieth-century Czech art. It is not formative or unambiguous in the existential and artistic flow of Czech painting, it has an expressive character that is usually identified with the essence of modern painting. It doesn't conform to the notion of outsiderism that has become a cliché in recent years, or provocatively irritate or challenge the establishment of painting.
10. Finger portraits
Instead of working with a brush, artist Chuck Close chooses alternative method and creates large-scale portraits with his fingerprints.
His lifelong work is a monumental parable of man, the dramas of his individual and social devotion, the corruption of himself and totalitarian power in its most varied forms. The center of his sculptural, but also graphic, close-up of new figuration, new realism and pop art is the human and human figure. He characterizes it as a subjective way of seeing, showing a person as if from the inside, through his survival and existential feelings, and not through the outer form. Often he uses overflow, enlarged body detail or fragment, grotesque, irony or sarcasm.
11. Portraits made of metal mesh
Artist Song Mo Park creates not only sculptures from wire, but also incredible portraits from metal mesh. He carefully cuts pieces of mesh in numerous layers. One wrong cut can ruin the entire image.
The creator of the project is Petr Trzankovsky. The main goal of the project is to promote Łódź in terms of its film heritage, with special emphasis on the achievements of Łódź animation. The sculptures were made in places most visited by tourists and associated with the film industry of Lodz.
Sculpture of the characters from the film “The Enchanted Pencil”
The total cost of the project is 608 thousand. The sculpture depicts the main characters of the fairy tale: a boy named Piotrek and his dog. A child draws an enchanted pencil on the wall Cultural Center Lodz - the dog seems to jump out of the picture.
The strange world of cats Philemon and Boniface
Black cat Boniface stands next to a ball of wool. This arrangement represents the opposite situation than usual in the tale - usually it would be Boniface lying on top at the top and Filemon playing below.
12. Art on the sand
Andres Amador – landscape designer, who creates huge works of art in the sand using nothing more than a rake. Sometimes, the artist uses rope to copy his geometric designs, but somehow, he allows the sea to wash away his work after hours of labor.
Sculpture of the Little Penguin Pik-Pok
Min.in. took part in the opening. Tadeusz Wilkosz and Joanna Stasevich. Ushatek the bear is presented here as a tourist: he has a backpack on the left and holds a map of the city in his left hand. The sculpture is less than one meter high and weighs 60 kg. This can also be seen on the cover of the map kept in Mysia.
Trying to formulate criteria for evaluating art is not easy. To this day, controversy persists as to whether we see a work of art that we like because of it alone or rather because it influences us in some way, taking into account our character traits, personality or individuality. sensitivity level.
13. Art on soil
Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodriguez-Jereda spent YEARS transforming a field in Belfast, Northern Ireland, into a portrait of a young girl. With the help of volunteers, he used nearly 8 million pounds of soil, sand and rock to "paint" his project, called "Wish."
14. Pencil sculptures
Artists Dalton Getty and Serka Hegiso do not use pencils as illustration tools. Instead, they carve wood and pencil graphite into tiny, stunning sculptures. One wrong move can ruin the whole job, so they try to take their time and keep their hand steady.
15. Skateboard sculptures
Japanese artist Haroshi repurposes the boards of old and broken skateboards into colorful sculptures. He needs to collect a large number of skateboards, after which he cleans them and stacks them on top of each other. He then cuts, carves, polishes these boards and the result is beautiful sculptures.
16. Sculptures made from hangers
Scottish sculptor David Mach uses thousands of wire hangers to create incredible,... life size, sculptures of ferocious animals. Each sculpture can take up to a thousand hours of work.
17. Globe made of matches
Andy Yoder spent two years painting matchsticks and attaching them to a custom structure made of foam, cardboard and plywood to create a giant globe. And if you have the idea to set fire to one match, then you won’t succeed, the artist covered the entire sculpture with a fire retardant :)
18. Shaded portraits
Rick Reimert spends dozens of hours creating each of his shaded drawings. All portraits are made entirely by hand using just a few pens and paper.
19. Tiny origami
Anya Markevich is an origami artist who works with incredibly tiny squares of paper, about 2 centimeters wide. The finished sculpture will easily fit on the tip of your finger.
20. Sculptures made from scrap metal
Turkish artist Selcuk Yilmaz created this huge lion sculpture from 4,000 pieces of collected metal. The sculptor carved every detail himself, which took him almost a year.
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The sculptures mostly represent images of people or events that supposedly should be remembered for a long time. Why exactly they need to be remembered is known only to the participants of this event. They want to be pitied and not forgotten. But life is fair, and all, even the most terrible, events are forgotten the very next day, or a week later, or a year later, if the person is very impressionable. Personally, I really like the sculptures that complement appearance cities, make it more comfortable and attractive. And I consider sculptures installed in memory of something to be a mockery of the sense of beauty. It is especially infuriating if sculptures are erected at the whim of officials in order to simply erect them and write off money from the budget. A work done for the record rarely turns out to be worthy of the attention of a connoisseur artist. I hope I have conveyed my fair point to my reader. To confirm my words, I am giving a lesson in drawing a sculpture of the Motherland in Volgograd. This is a good job:
How to draw a Sculpture with a pencil step by step
Step one. You will need one sheet of A4 paper. Set it up vertically, just like when painting portraits. Take a simple hard pencil 2H. In the center of the sheet, make a circle for the head and sketch out the outline of the dress. 
Step two. We draw the pose in which the Motherland sculpture stands. Her breasts are awesome. Apparently, the sculptor loved his homeland very much. 
Step three. Adding folds to the clothes. 
Step four. And shadows: 
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