3 articles tagged with "paper art"
Kara Walker uses the gentlest Victorian art form to depict slavery's most brutal truths. Discover how her cut-paper silhouettes became one of contemporary art's most essential bodies of work.
Paper is the most widely available art material in the world, and artists have been pushing its limits for over a thousand years. This guide covers origami, kirigami, papercutting, paper sculpture, and the contemporary artists who have turned a sheet of paper into a serious fine art medium.
Bookbinding is one of the oldest and most technically demanding crafts still practised today. This guide covers the history of the bound book, the major binding structures, the artists who turned the craft into fine art, and how to start exploring it yourself.