Masterpieces of paper

Create a work of art can be with just a sheet of paper and scissors

Many people underestimate the properties of the paper, believing that it is too fragile, simple and featureless material for a masterpiece. Not the artist does not even come to mind to use the paper as it is done by the master, presented below.

We are presenting 17 artists, turns our understanding of the paper. Some of them are the successors of the ancient traditions, others became innovators in the world of contemporary art. Among them are the guys from Russia.

Peter Calles

"The process of the materialization of the three-dimensional object from a flat sheet of paper, I think almost magical - said Calles. - Maybe this is the real magic, because the process of its creation is clear and the figures thus remain tied to its source, without being able to escape. "

Julia Brody

Bumagokruchenie or quilling - beautiful alternative izgryzannym nails, broken pencils, and other manifestations of stress. This is a simple and very beautiful form of needlework that does not require large expenditures. In England, Princess Elizabeth seriously fascinated by the art of quilling, and many of her creations are stored in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Simon Schubert

No paint or ink, a simple white sheet. Folding, kinking, prodavlivaya paper, German sculptor creates lines, angles and even circles that can stand above the surface is only a few millimeters. The picture viewer is opened only when the right light.

Calvin Nicholls

Canadian Calvin Nicholls cut paper amazingly natural animal almost thirty years and is not going to stop. It still gets something like white sheets take on texture, shape and life. You can imagine how carefully Calvin have to work on each his work - seen every feather, every strand of wool

Hina Aoyama

Small scissors, paper, talent and hard laborious work - these are the main tools of the artist from Japan. Her fragile works of art in the form of delicate butterflies and ornate lace letters amaze airiness.

Eiko Ojala

The artist from Tallinn has managed to give the genre a paper collage, in which themselves usually try children first art opening, a new dimension. His work looks simple and at the same time highly artistic - as noted by some critics, "it is hard to believe that this is just a piece of paper."

Eric Standley

American artist skillfully cuts the whole arrays of thin sheets of paper to create their incredible stained glass windows.

Tomoko Shioyasu

This is not a lace and drawing. This paper tapestries Tomoko Shioyasu. Like a surgeon wielding a scalpel blade and it cuts intricate patterns on paper.

Jen Stark

In an interview, the artist said that the beginning of the cut when held artistic training in France: "The euro exchange rate was so high and everything was worth so much that I chose to purchase the materials are cheaper, but that he looked at 100". So Jen got the first roll of colored paperboard.

Lisa Rodden

Her work is characterized by minimalist, laconic, and extreme precision with which the artist puts on paper sections to assemble the creative composition.

Bovey Lee

The artist continues the tradition of Chinese art "Jianzhu" - cutting patterns out of paper. As an example of Bovey Lee uses photographs, paintings, illustrations from books and magazines. She puts the scanned template under a sheet of rice paper and carefully and painstakingly carves the image using a special knife with eleven blades.

Cheong-ah Hwang

American artist doing illustrations for paper books.

Anant Nanvare

Portraits in the style of quilling for the Indian manufacturer of paper advertising in 2010, took the Golden Lion at the International Advertising Festival in Cannes.