The Beauty of Paper Art
The times when paper was considered to be the primary medium for artistic expression is long gone. Many writers and designers use digital media to improvise and develop their ideas. However, there is something particuliar in this “physical” canvas — something that keeps us getting back to paper when we want to brainstorm ideas in a notebook, doodle around in a sketchbook, collect inspiration in a scrapbook or just draw some sketches for the next project.
In fact, paper is even more powerful than that. It is a very flexible medium. You can use it paper only for giving your ideas and feelings forms, but also as an expressive medium for creative artworks formed out of paper. You can create a sharp-edged paper plane or ship, but also form twisted curves of nature or complicated geometrical shapes. In this weekend’s post we present a showcase of paper art; you wil find many beautiful carved, folded, cut out paper objects and realistic 3D paper sculptures, all using paper, cardboxes or even books as materials. Please make sure to follow the links to explore further works of the artists presented below.
You may be interested in the following related posts:
- Beautiful Handwriting, Lettering and Calligraphy
- Beautiful Examples of Moleskine Art
- Plasticine Art Showcase: Shape Your Imagination
- Handcraft Strikes Back: Buttons, Badges, Pins and Clips
The Beauty of Paper Art
Flat Globe Cutting Book Series “AKIRA CLUB”
Artists who make pieces, Artists who do books (detail)
Custom topography of St. Thomas
Helen Musselwhite: Romany Caravan
Last Click
Wataru Itou
This paper model looks very impressive with all the little lights illuminating it. Be sure to hit up the link for more pictures of this masterpiece.
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Meelika
May 29th, 2010 4:33 amThis is amazing o:
Maybe I could try doing something like that sometime n_n
Mary Anne
May 31st, 2010 5:28 pmYou should! : )
gp
May 31st, 2010 9:36 pmAmazing
kalyan
June 1st, 2010 2:57 amYes… Wish u all the best…..
Have some diff styles.
Richie
May 29th, 2010 4:45 amThis is an out-of-the-world creative work. Paper, being a strong medium for broadcasting messages, when used in such a creative manner is bound to inspire everyone who appreciates art. But it requires a lot of patience to create such work. Thanks for the showcase!
okmijn
May 29th, 2010 4:58 ammichel gondry approved
Hexacreative.web.id
May 29th, 2010 5:24 amLet’s reduce the paper consumption, and recycle the paper into great artwork like that. This article just making inspiration! Nice!
Noah
May 29th, 2010 5:37 amDon’t forget this little gem: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rougeux/sets/72157621702780335/
Christina B.
May 29th, 2010 5:54 amIf you love paper art, please view this artist as well:
http://www.artyulia.com/index.php/Illustration
http://www.underconsideration.com/fpo/archives/2010/05/stern-grove-festival-poster.php
—enjoy
jordan
May 29th, 2010 8:23 amthat last one is not paper, but plywood, made by AJ Fosik. check out AJ’s work, awesome stuff! http://whitewallssf.com/shows/theres-aliens-in-our-midst/
rajesh
May 29th, 2010 8:32 amWataru Itou is remarkable. Thanks for the post.
David A
May 29th, 2010 8:57 amThank you for posts like this one. Seeing wonderful real-world art is much needed inspiration for those of us who get wrapped up in the minutia of Photoshop and HTML, pixels, and more pixels.
Ebe Buzzi
May 29th, 2010 9:40 amAlso worth checking out: the great work of Su Blackwell
http://www.sublackwell.co.uk/
Vinicius Luchi
May 29th, 2010 10:13 amVery, very good. Its a pleasure for who looking. =D
pixey
May 29th, 2010 10:48 amnice list, thanks a lot! here is also a list:
http://www.pixey.de/2010/05/24/5-links-zum-gestalten-mit-papier/
sandhya das
May 29th, 2010 11:26 amWoww!!! Great and fantastic
shasta
May 29th, 2010 1:23 pmWataru Itou’s castle is insanely beautiful! That guy must have the patience of a saint…
What I miss in your post however is the work of contemporary origami artists, like for instance Joseph Wu (http://www.flickr.com/photos/josephwuorigami/) or Robert Lang (http://www.langorigami.com/). Any collection titled “paper art” seems incomplete and only modestly researched without Origami… But maybe paper art is just too diverse to be squeezed into one post. ;)
Mark P
May 29th, 2010 1:59 pmThis is very inspiring!
Great!
James Slater
May 29th, 2010 2:18 pmThis is inspiring. Or intimidating, I’m not quite sure.
Is there a limit to human creativity and imagination, I wonder?
Pumpki
May 29th, 2010 6:19 pmThese are awesome!
Reminds me of a animation i once saw. It was the ending to a show.
It was all done in paper… and a few pencils :)
Heres the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9896cYPaFf0
Marcipa
May 29th, 2010 11:49 pmthey are amazing ;)
channeljay
May 30th, 2010 12:08 amreally amazing collection here. very inspiring
lboyd
May 30th, 2010 12:51 amThanks for adding my book art to this page… To see more paper sculptures please visit http://www.facebook.com/louisaboydart and join up to stay up to date with exhibitions and new works.
Webchester
May 30th, 2010 12:57 amVery nice Paper Art.
Illustrationtown
May 30th, 2010 1:44 amFantastic collection! Thank you guys!
Alexandr
May 30th, 2010 4:53 amcool
:)
Angela
May 30th, 2010 5:04 amAbsolutely amazing. Such an array of detailed and intricate pieces. Thank you so much for sharing this. Love it!!!
Jo Dean
May 30th, 2010 5:08 amWow you must admit that is some good stuff.
Lou
Kim @ Money and Risk
May 30th, 2010 6:31 amGorgeous. Thank you.
The last item however, you can make yourself from kits that are sold in France. I remember buying those kits at Notre Dame 20 years ago and making the cathedrals.
Amazing Sey
May 30th, 2010 8:16 amWoww!!! this’s amazing!
Omer Yaqub
May 30th, 2010 8:47 amSimply Gorgeous..
Thanx Smash..
Andres Jaimes
May 30th, 2010 8:57 amBeautiful… I loved the apples…
Tonijn
May 30th, 2010 2:23 pmI do miss the “Paper Constellations” made by George Brecht, Willem de Ridder, and others who were members of the Fluxus (art) movement during the 60′s and 70′s.
Willem de Ridder has made several contributions to Typeradio. A website focussed typography and design. You should check it out!
De Ridder on Typeradio: http://www.typeradio.org/loudblog/index.php?cat=Ridder,Willemde
ramalamadingdong
May 30th, 2010 4:20 pmThis is just amazing!! How do the cut this holes in “Flat Globe Cutting Book Series “AKIRA CLUB””?
Angelee
May 30th, 2010 5:49 pmWOW… super WOW… these are true Eye-Popping works.
sasan
June 9th, 2010 2:44 amheloooooooooo??????
diana
May 30th, 2010 7:23 pmAmazing! Where can I learn to make something like this?
div
May 30th, 2010 10:13 pmSimply Superb………………A wonderful artistic way……..Thanks for sharing it.
Bruno
May 31st, 2010 4:56 amFantastic Post!!!
Very inspiring…
Alexandre
May 31st, 2010 6:21 amExcelent ! see http://www.paperinside.com , the author make great jobs with paper.
Cédric
May 31st, 2010 9:43 amHere is some more…
Romain Lenancker :
http://www.creasenso.fr/freelances/image/paper-artist/romain_l/
&
Ju & Matt
http://www.creasenso.fr/freelances/image/paper-artist/ju-et-mat/
BaZookaPL
May 31st, 2010 11:00 amWhoa! If you like these you should check out this guy right here, can’t believe he didnt make it here haha! —-> http://www.jvallee.com
senna88
May 31st, 2010 1:47 pmVery cool cardboard based lights and lamps: http://www.graypants.com
Martik
May 31st, 2010 11:25 pmhow to make them?!
sreedevi
June 1st, 2010 12:11 amsurerb amazing
Mojo Sempre
June 1st, 2010 12:21 amVery nice collection, but missing the paperart of Noriko Yamaguchi.
http://www.norikoyamaguchi.com
or on her flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/norikoyamaguchi/
vu do
June 1st, 2010 3:57 amamazing. I have never seen them before
shunyuan
June 1st, 2010 4:44 amAwesome.
Lana Manis
June 1st, 2010 11:40 amSuch talent! I am in awe ~ thanks for sharing!
Jeff
June 1st, 2010 12:33 pmPerfect timing. My wife just made me this “paper” watch for our anniversary: http://tinyurl.com/23wh7vs
sara
June 1st, 2010 4:57 pmunbelievable !!!
i couldn.t believe my eyes, you’re crazy! all beautiful..i will definetely try, too :D
thanks for sharing :)
Rebecca H
June 2nd, 2010 12:51 amThis is amazing. makes me wanna try out something similar !
Girish
June 2nd, 2010 3:28 amJust how amazing people can imagine and bring it to life!!
monet
June 2nd, 2010 8:18 amsuch a wonderful paper works even though i don’t know how to judge but i am pulled to do so
Mariusz
June 2nd, 2010 2:02 pmunbelievable.
Lou L.
June 2nd, 2010 2:51 pmThis is so incredibly inspiring. I’m really glad this topic is discussed here. I think because of the growing use of technology, now, more than ever, we should pay more attention to more “physical” art forms and encouraging artists and designers to use them more.
Lou
joost_n
June 3rd, 2010 12:27 am“holding on to myself” so simpel and yet so briliant
firehead50121
June 3rd, 2010 8:28 amamazing, wooooooowwww
Ernestine
June 3rd, 2010 11:03 amAmazing patience, talent and imagination, thank you for sharing this.
AM
June 3rd, 2010 8:45 pmAnother great, super and one of the best German paper artist:
http://www.papierplastiken-schubert.de/
Charles Clary
June 3rd, 2010 8:56 pmThank you so much for including my work in this distinguished group of artists.
Random Dave
June 4th, 2010 7:16 amAnyone got a match?
;)
Death
June 5th, 2010 4:35 amboring….
catherine
June 5th, 2010 11:07 pmi do a lot of paper based art (cpalmeno.blogspot.com/)
fatemeh
June 6th, 2010 2:21 amit is beautiful.
Kristian
June 6th, 2010 5:25 amAmazing stuff
kimiya
June 7th, 2010 2:10 amررررشغ
@Thinkstock
June 7th, 2010 10:22 amWe are very impressed with this showcase, amazing and thought-provoking!
RAWR
June 7th, 2010 8:58 pmHey, that mask- the second to last one- is made out of wood. i saw it on another website (the artist makes some incredible pieces out of wood) and besides, you can see the nails in the wood. i just think that maybe you should research this stuff a bit more before you assume it’s paper. no big deal, though. most of these things are AWESOME.
UTKARSHA
June 8th, 2010 6:18 amhey these are so creative ideas
and are amazing pics.
subhashkhatri
June 8th, 2010 10:20 pmvery nice, Amazing work!!!
Diana
June 10th, 2010 8:49 amGreat! Superb!
Aisha
June 13th, 2010 10:58 pmReally great selection..I totally love it..great source of inspiration…thanks
ze to
June 23rd, 2010 5:25 pmfantastic!! its so beauty! xD
Alex
June 26th, 2010 7:14 amAWESOME POST..thank you so much ;)
parisa
July 5th, 2010 7:07 amso cool ,good job.
Fusilli
July 8th, 2010 12:43 amAwesome, in awe.
MARC LOVES ELLE
July 8th, 2010 9:56 pmow some grate!
MARC LOVES ELLE
July 8th, 2010 9:56 pmthis is magnicificos because i9ts plural beybe
MARC LOVES ELLE
July 8th, 2010 9:57 pmbakit wala pa dito un? ha? demmet
Chibot
July 11th, 2010 10:28 pmSo inspiring! how i wish i could do something like that! :-)
Sarah Burghardt
July 13th, 2010 12:19 amamazing awesome work, love it :-)
parind
July 19th, 2010 2:30 amAMAZING….No words :)
Jerky Oats
August 29th, 2010 4:03 pmWOW! I like the last one the most. I never thought that paper could be so interesting. I think that I’ll stick to the world of digital design and multimedia.
Jerky Oats
james
September 10th, 2010 12:40 amits just fantastic cannot believe your eyes amazing and out of the world
Dewlance
October 24th, 2010 1:03 amvery amazing work.
good luck and I hope you will post more paper arts
Amzad Ali
November 19th, 2010 11:46 pmamazing amazing amazing………..
shashi
November 24th, 2010 9:52 amThis is very inspiring!
Great artistic world….
robyn
November 26th, 2010 11:52 amisn’t all this paper art bad for the environment…wtf!
Karen Little
December 8th, 2010 4:49 pmHere is another amazing paper artist http://www.tahitipehrson.com
sealyspeak
December 15th, 2010 1:04 amSome very impressive work. Where do these people get the time?
meghan
December 31st, 2010 8:52 pmPAPER IS MAGICAL
Boutté
January 20th, 2011 12:52 amPaper cutout, french artiste of paper art.
http://www.nathalieboutte.com
Elena
February 11th, 2011 1:40 pmThis is one of the best collections of paper art that I’ve found. Very inspiring.
I work with paper too – some examples here: http://elenaduff.com/art/?page_id=2
abu hasan
April 24th, 2011 4:08 amgreat work!
nirmala kachanna
July 19th, 2011 10:13 amwhat a fantastic creation of paper art !
aalochena
October 4th, 2011 12:33 pmAmazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dopy
November 10th, 2011 10:41 amthat was beauty full
marielle
December 8th, 2011 11:25 pmWONDERFUL!