At the moment I'm obsessing over light and shadows.
Rashad Alakbarov whose shadow paintings are all over the Internet nowadays has sucked me into this world and I can't resist sharing some of my findings.
Rashad Alakbarov is an Azerbaijan artist who uses everyday found objects and light to create his art. The work below I find the most striking and different from other shadow artworks because Rashad managed to incorporate color by using multicolored acrylic planes to create this incredibly vivid shadow painting. You can check the rest of his work on this Facebook page.
Then there's Kumi Yamashita. Kumi Yamashita says that she turns lights on and off and rearranges objects on the wall or the floor for months . The objects that she uses for creating shadows are so pure and simple and she manages to find the precise angles for her light sources so her final works are elegant and very impressive.
Below you can check a nice animation inspired by Kumi Yamashita's work by Peter Eszenyi and if you wish to see modest Kumi Yamashita in crazy Takeshi Kitano's show ( up until today I wasn't aware of the fact that Takeshi Kitano hosted several very popular television shows !!! ), go here.
And my third favorite shadow artist Fred Eerdekens. Through his shadow art, he mostly plays around with words. Below is the series of his works with twisted wires which appear to have no meaning but with the right angle lighting ,words appear on the wall.
"A very short story, with a lot of fiction in the middle, and something real in the end."
Rashad Alakbarov whose shadow paintings are all over the Internet nowadays has sucked me into this world and I can't resist sharing some of my findings.
Rashad Alakbarov is an Azerbaijan artist who uses everyday found objects and light to create his art. The work below I find the most striking and different from other shadow artworks because Rashad managed to incorporate color by using multicolored acrylic planes to create this incredibly vivid shadow painting. You can check the rest of his work on this Facebook page.
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| Photo © Rashad Alakbarov |
Then there's Kumi Yamashita. Kumi Yamashita says that she turns lights on and off and rearranges objects on the wall or the floor for months . The objects that she uses for creating shadows are so pure and simple and she manages to find the precise angles for her light sources so her final works are elegant and very impressive.
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| Photo © Kumi Yamashita |
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| Photo © Kumi Yamashita |
Below you can check a nice animation inspired by Kumi Yamashita's work by Peter Eszenyi and if you wish to see modest Kumi Yamashita in crazy Takeshi Kitano's show ( up until today I wasn't aware of the fact that Takeshi Kitano hosted several very popular television shows !!! ), go here.
And my third favorite shadow artist Fred Eerdekens. Through his shadow art, he mostly plays around with words. Below is the series of his works with twisted wires which appear to have no meaning but with the right angle lighting ,words appear on the wall.
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| photos via Millions of Colors |
"A very short story, with a lot of fiction in the middle, and something real in the end."
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