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- AdamTReineke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35Those are incredible works of art.
- Gus1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13If only paper was always that exciting.
- PatrickFisher, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Nah, I like "Holding on to Myself" better.
- nthitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Some of are mirrored correctly at http://www.oncotton.co.uk.nyud.net:8080/peter/text/link.html
- jasontho, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Very cool, I like the guys skeleton shadow.
- JeffLebowski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6those are fantastic! where can i order one?
- unamas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6what? no airplanes?
- jiggawoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6America doesn't use A4 paper...? What the hell does the "I" in ISO A4 stand for then? I always assumed it to mean "International".
Or is the US not part of the international community? - VolatileWhimsy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6People generally get inspiration from things around them including art. Someone has to be the artist so the scientist can be the scientist.
- jdb252, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Isn't the point of the MC Escher's that they can't be recreated in real life... aka surreal?
- jiggawoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5His name is Peter Callesen. More of his work here.
http://www.oncotton.co.uk/peter/
and here
http://www.oncotton.co.uk/peter/index/index2.html - spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6And I'm sure the time you spent looking at the pictures and writing a comment on it could have been more productively spent. What's your point?
- RandomSkratch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@jiggawoot
"Or is the US not part of the international community?"
And it took you how long to figure this out? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A4 dimensions: 297 × 210 mm ; 11.7 × 8.3 in
US Letter (ANSI A) dimensions : 279.4 × 215.9 mm ; 11 × 8.5 in
Just so we're all on the same page here :-P
It all boils down to imperial vs metric. (why can't we all just switch to metric already?) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Good linkage.
People should really see this guy's installation work; his life-size works are mind-boggling. - hiroshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't know why everyone's digging down comments that deal with Americans and A4. It really is rare in this country. I had some stuff that was formatted for A4 that I needed printed in the correct aspect ratio, so I called every place that sold paper. No one had any! Most of the time they'd never heard of it, and if they did know of it, they thought I was crazy for even wanting to buy some. I'm sure it'd be much easier to just buy some online, but people around here can be so oblivious to the outside world =(
- airencracken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Reminds me of Magritte.
- mikedpirone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Um, isn't A4 paper standard paper? I thought standard paper was 8 1/2" x 11", no cutting necessary.
I'm wrong but standard is close enough. - MistressRoninS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Apple blossom is my favorite and then the skeleton. Absolutely beautiful.
- NerdOfPrey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Only read the comments for this article because I *knew* this issue would come up, and wanted to watch the inevitable fallout.
Oh A4 vs Letter, source of so many printer related woes. - gboodhoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2not really. Escher wasn't a surrealist. More of a logician/mathematician as well as an amazing draftsman. lot of his work comes from his research on periodic and aperiodic tiling, different forms of symmetry, etc... the guy rocks. So does this paper artist!
- shelle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Does it matter? I'm sure this guy could've made the same art out of letter size.
- dynasty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2indeed. from the creator:
"About my paper works
My paper works have lately been based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality. I find this materialization of a flat piece of paper into a 3D form almost as a magic process - or maybe one could call it obvious magic, because the process is obvious and the figures still stick to their origin, without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is also an aspect of something tragic in most of the cuts. Some of the small paper cuts relate to a universe of fairy tales and romanticism, as for instance "Impenetrable Castle" inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", in which a tin soldier falls in love with a paper ballerina, living in a paper castle. Other paper cuts are small dramas in which small figures are lost within and threatened by the huge powerful nature. Others again are turning the inside out, or letting the front and the back of the paper meet - dealing with impossibility, illusions, and reflections.
I find the A4 sheet of paper interesting to work with, because it probably still is the most common and consumed media and format for carrying information today, and in that sense it is something very loaded. This means that we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper. By removing all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white 80gms A4 paper as a base for my creations, I feel that I have found a material which, on one hand, we all are able to relate to, and which on the other hand is non-loaded and neutral and therefore easier to fill with different meanings. The thin white paper gives at the same time the paper sculptures a fragility which underlines the tragic and romantic theme of the works."
i would pay large sums of money for one of these. - dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's amazing
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm a huge Escher fan, and i would say that Escher is *very* surrealist, especially in his "impossible" pieces like Waterfall, Up and Down and even Picture Gallery to a certain extent. Other World and Eye are pretty much textbook surrealism. Many of his landscape studies from the 30s verge on surrealist as well. He even pays homage to the "classical" surrealist Heironymous Bosch by copying his piece Hell to his own medium of woodcuts/lithographs.
I would agree that most of his geometrical and tessellation based work fall more into the Op-Art category, although even some of those borrow from surrealism (Reptiles, Predestination, House of Stairs)
I would love to see this papercut guy do an interpretation of Dragon, Rind, or Drawing Hands. I think they would go over well to the papercut medium - billflu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I dugg this 137 days ago.
http://digg.com/design/The_PaperCut_Galleries_The_Phenomenal_Work_Of_Peter_Callesen - bickdigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the scientist can be an artist. Da Vinci?
- sogracefully, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1draw, then cut with x-acto knife, voila.
- VolatileWhimsy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
saying that kinda stuff means you are oblivous to the outside world. :P - Pelapp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anybody know anything about the price ?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here are a few more:
http://www.oncotton.co.uk/peter/index/A4PAPERCUT_000.htm - sogracefully, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1maybe this is because i'm from l.a., but it really isn't that hard to find. art stores and paper craft stores have it here, but i'm sure walmart, target, rite-aid, walgreen's, etc. wouldn't see a need.
- tjanson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Um I guess it's okay to use your standard size. ("Letter"? Is that how you call it?) What difference does it make? The point is that it's a sheet of paper, 2mm more or less―who cares?
I wonder how he cuts that, does he simply use scissors? Or some fancy laser cutting technique? - jiggawoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Some of the rooms he's done where he has mirrored stairways and balustrades are amazing. It would be quite easy to try to walk up the wrong set if you weren't paying attention.
- VolatileWhimsy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes you are correct, we can be more than one thing.
- chapium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If it aint broke, dont fix it.
- WhoIsScott, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thats really cool. I like that fact that the artist used both the positive and negative (cutouts) parts of the paper
- VolatileWhimsy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Have you read some of the comments some of the people leave, including myself? Do you honestly feel this is a good idea?
- jsls, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wow, such fine detail...very beautiful!!!
- Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Probably because the post is boring.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was just thinking that!
...and how absolutely terrible I would feel it it happened (those have got to be extremely fragile...) - marinist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@gboodhoo
Then perhaps the term "topological surrealist" is fitting for M.C. Escher?
Sure, his work gets in math texts, but he's also a master of fantasy and incongruity, both aspects to surrealism. - DrewEiden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://empireimports.stores.yahoo.net/a4paper.html
Did a google search and found a quick link for anyone who wants to buy some A4 paper
That's some cool art there too I love the angel one and the skeleton. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@wetwillie
I would take your comment to heart, if you actually dugg stories on this site, Instead of being a little hack in the puppet gallery.
Last story dugg 96 days ago:
http://digg.com/users/wetwillie/news/dugg
I guess I should call you a digg _______. I'll let anyone else fill in the blank. - syco123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1WOW
Real talent. Beautiful, ingenious, creative work. - Azewaldo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2It *IS* the 3rd time that this artist has made it to the front page. I think it's great stuff, bit I'm only gonna digg it once.
- joerod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1that is cool!
- xjedx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0but there are no instructions ,
how to do that pls. share ur talent! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@artbyvanee
Nice work. although you wouldn't happen to be Jonathan Vanee of johnanvanee.com, lol. It's the surrealistic, fantasy stuff that I use to enjoy in OMNI magazine when I was a kid. Best of luck to you. - leathergnome, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0it's so amusing to read these digg geeks grappling with art.
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