Category: painter

Optical Illusion Artist Transforms Dingy Soviet-Style Apartment Building Into Giant 3D Bookshelf in Russia

Jan used to be afraid of heights. He recalled his hands shaking as he stood teetering on the side of a 9-story apartment building, painting his illusionistic murals on a grand scale, nervously wielding paint-filled aerosol cans. A wellspring of creative talent, graffiti artist Jan Heinsbroek, from Utrecht, Netherlands, in 2016 transformed that apartment into…


‘Just the Beginning’: Trump Painter Jon McNaughton Looks Toward 2021, Shares Message of Hope

Traditional art lovers started hearing the name Jon McNaughton a lot more often in 2019, after his cheeky painting of President Trump “Crossing the Swamp” went viral on Twitter. It portrays Trump in a boat, navigating an allegorical swamp (Washington D.C.) in a tongue-in-cheek homage to the painting of “George Washington Crossing the Delaware,” which…