Creative Art Featuring People
July 22, 2009 by James Bent - 6 Comments
Very often the most beautiful and outstanding artworks were created by accident: water spots after the rain, odd lines of the wire or paper crumpled in a weird way may create some really beautiful pieces of art – and the best thing about them is that they stir imagination and may cause various conflicting feelings in different people.
Ghostly Figures in Ruined Buildings
Photographer Xenmate (his works can also be found here) finds ghost buildings where the walls have been artistically redecorated, animated with ghostly figures as flat as the non-spaces they inhabit. That’s rather an almost accidental art because the figures were added there but the whole picture would not be possible with the overall scene of demolished buildings.





Crumpled Paper
Paper Sculpture:
The origami fan wanted to create a paper sculpture expressing frustration:
While there have been occasional happy faces, and even a few enlightened and bemused expressions, I haven’t seen any of the heavier emotions in origami. I’m talking here about Hope, Frustration, Anger, Love, Despair.

Toilet Paper Roll Sculptures:
That’s either not quite accidental – but I am sure the artist doesn’t quite imagine how each sculpture is going to look like until it is crumpled:



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Old road signs
The road signs were created by people but time gave them new, “accidental” meaning:
The old crossing in Berlin now looks like a stampede:

“Swimmers will dissolve“:

“Accident“:

Spots on walls
That’s a purely accidental art, the only human skill involved here is the photographer’s who was spotting it:
The struggle:

Human figures:


Wires:
The climbing man (by Gali-Dana):


Shadows:
Night monster:

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John Davis (July 22nd, 2009, 04:50 pm)
Wow, that is truly amazing dude!
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Evan (July 23rd, 2009, 07:17 am)
That’s some pretty neat stuff! Nice find.
Photography Schools (July 28th, 2009, 05:45 pm)
Wow this is a really cool set. I LOVE the toilet paper roll faces! Also I’m a huge fan of the “accidentals.” Thanks for the post.
mini e cigarette (August 9th, 2009, 10:40 pm)
The figures on the ruined buildings are eerie. They look like lingering spirits.
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Colin Talcroft (January 21st, 2011, 09:44 pm)
Nice post. In case anyone’s interested. I maintain a whole blog that collects this kind of accidental art (see link above). Truly, art is all around us. All that’s required is to notice it.
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