Art Archives - Nerdalicious

In New Horizons Photographs We Discover The Monsters of Pluto

July 25, 2015

The New Horizons spacecraft has carried a collection of imagers, spectrometers, radiometers and telescopes around the sun, past Jupiter and on, some 4.79 billion kilometres in nine and a half years to the farth... Read More...

Mr Squiggle A Retro Perspective

C S Hughes

February 15, 2015

Art, Film & TV

Notoriously irascible, the artist known only as Mr Squiggle shares more than his reputation as a "lady's man" with Pablo Picasso. Squiggle's technique results in bold lines and yet speaks of an ephemeral myster... Read More...

Gourmet Paper Mache Presents A Timelapse Of The Great Red Dragon

C S Hughes

December 9, 2014

Art

Dragons. Beasts wrested from our darkest subconscious which take flight in our highest dreams. In medieval times they were known for despoiling maidens. While largely symbolic, how exactly that worked should pe... Read More...

Towards Stillness: Towards the Final Journey of King Richard III

Olga Hughes

November 20, 2014

Art, History

When the Leicestershire County Council commissioned Towards Stillness, Dallas Pierce Quintero was asked to create an artwork that connected Bosworth, where King Richard III died in battle, to the city of Leices... Read More...

The Imaginative Miniature Worlds of Pollock’s 19th Century Toy Theatre

C S Hughes

October 12, 2014

Art

Today children through iPads and phones have a world of entertainment in the palms of their hands. Untold shows, games, puzzles and learning experiences, a world of the imagination is available in an instant, t... Read More...

Sensible Sober Bright and Temperant – 1960s Alert Magazine

C S Hughes

July 13, 2014

Art, Change

With the overwhelming change to a more permissive society in the late 1960s, the idea of a Temperance Society seems to have gone from the sublime to the ridiculous, formerly it conjured up an image of a dou... Read More...

The Short And Startling History Of Animals Without Pants

C S Hughes

July 3, 2014

Art, Ridiculam Mundi

Archaeologists and anthropologists will tell you; humans wear clothes for warmth, protection and decoration. Psychologists will tell you we wear clothes to enhance our naughty bits, religious types will tell yo... Read More...

Welcome to the Mewseum: Svetlana Petrova’s Classic Cats

Olga Hughes

May 29, 2014

Art, News

Portrait of Catherine II the Legislator in the Temple Devoted to the Cat, based on Dmitry Levitsky Every nerd loves a great cat meme, and artist Svetlana Petrova's work on classic paintings featuring her bi... Read More...

Artist Creates Epic 30-Foot Long Star Wars Tapestry

Olga Hughes

February 22, 2014

Art, Film & TV

Hand-stitched 30 foot long tapestry depicting the Star Wars Saga Inspired by the legendary 230-foot long Bayeux Tapestry, artist Aled Lewis has created an epic cross-stitched tapestry depicting the Star War... Read More...

Nerds Get Stuff Sold! Best Nerdy Ads of All Time

Dave Smith

January 20, 2014

Art

Many of us would consider ourselves a bit nerdy, perhaps even geeky. Most of the time, we take pride in that fact. After all, if we describe ourselves as “nerdy,” it could just be a synonym for “passionate” o... Read More...

Three Must See Comic Book Museums

C S Hughes

January 5, 2014

Art

The Bayeux Tapestry Museum The Bayeux Tapestry is perhaps the most famous of ancient comic strips. It depicts events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England, 1064-1066, culminating in the Battle Of Hastin... Read More...

Dirty Little Secrets – Sarah Rosado Finds Jewels In The Dirt

C S Hughes

January 4, 2014

Art

There is something primal about making pictures out of dirt, twigs, bark and found objects. It is perhaps our first experience of our own creativity, the first mark we leave on the world, our first attempt to s... Read More...

Henry VIII’s Diabolical Portrait

C S Hughes

November 29, 2013

Art, History

16th Century Mural of Henry VIII has a diabolical secret When Angie and Rhodri Powell found a near life size portrait hidden under the plaster of their 16th century home a few years ago, it was described as... Read More...

The Hidden Political Agendas In Richard Scarry’s Naughty Bunny

C S Hughes

October 17, 2013

Art, Books, Ridiculam Mundi

Richard Scarry's Naughty Bunny is a children's book, published by Golden Press, Sydney, in 1974, by arrangement with Western Publishing Company. It seems an innocent tale of a cute but naughty bunny. Make no mi... Read More...

Ten of the Weirdest Book Covers for The Hobbit

Olga Hughes

September 2, 2013

Art, Books

Barbara Remington Barbara Remington was unable to get a copy of 'The Hobbit' or 'The Lord of the Rings' prior to creating the concept art for the first authorised US paperbacks. —but I must ask this about th... Read More...

The Innocence of Sin City’s Robots

C S Hughes

August 9, 2013

Art

Geoffrey Gersten's robots share a little with Pixar, but not much with Disney, they have a definite inheritance from the tin and plastic toy robots of the 50s and 60s, and also from the robots depicted in the c... Read More...

Treasures In Wood – Ron Young’s Jewellery Boxes

C S Hughes

May 18, 2013

Art

With their flowing, organic designs, exotic, rich-grained timbers, and deep lustre brought out by hand finishing, the jewellery and trinket boxes made by Ron Young represent both the traditions of the woodworki... Read More...