Miami Artist Uses His Own Body Fat to Make Soap
Miami-based performance artist Orestes de la Paz has put his heart, soul and fat into 20 bars of special soap made with his liposuctioned blubber. The bars of human soap are available for purchase and priced at $1,000. Orestes de la Paz underwent a liposuction procedure in December of last year, and decided to turn […]
Artist Paints Herself Dressed in Bizarre Dead Animal Dresses
In her 2007 self-portrait series, Booty, Julie Heffernan painted herself dressed in creepy dresses made from dead animal carcasses. David Cohen, art critic of The New York Sun, describes Julie Heffernan’s paintings as “a hybrid of genres and styles, mixing allegory, portraiture, history painting, and still life, while in title they are all presented as self […]
Dutch Artist Turns Dead Cat into Remote-Controlled Helicopter
Like many other animal lovers, Dutch artist Bart Jansen found it hard to part with his pet cat, Orville, after he was hit by a car. So he decided to turn the dead feline into a unique piece of artwork called the Orvillecopter. Jansen named his beloved pet after the famous aviator Orville Wright, so […]
Dr. Rev’s Creepy Artworks Are Painted in Blood
Dr Rev Mayers is an Australian tattoo artist with a passion for creating crimson artworks using nothing but blood. Using a variety of art techniques, he paints incredibly detailed yet somewhat creepy works of art. Some artist would probably call Dr. Rev crazy for using his own blood on all of his paintings, but so […]
Urine Iron Man Wins Art Competition
The title is a little misleading, so to make things clear, we’re talking about the face of Iron Man made of real urine, in a toilet bowl. This unusual artwork was actually considered better than 600 other entries in a popular art competition. You don’t often get the chance to associate Iron Man with urine, […]
Indian Artist Paints with His Tongue
Now here’s a hobby that’s bound to leave a bad aftertaste. Ani K, from Kerala, India, makes paintings using his tongue. No, he doesn’t hold a paintbrush with his tongue, as I mistakenly believed at first. He actually slathers paint on it, which he then transfers on to canvas to create beautiful images. Sounds rather […]
Artist Plans to Give Birth in Art Gallery, in Front of an Audience
Brooklyn performance artist Marni Kotak plans to have her baby in an art gallery, before an audience, during a performance she hopes will convince people “that human life itself is the most profound work of art, and that therefore giving birth, the greatest expression of life, is the highest form of art.” Entitled “The Birth […]
Woman Pays $10,000 for Non-Visible Artwork
The Museum on Non-Visible Art, or MONA, houses a variety of non-visible works of art that can only be admired by reading the artist’s description. Sounds weird, but believe it or not, someone actually paid $10,000 for one of these ‘masterpieces’. I have to admit I’ve always wondered why some people spend thousands, sometimes millions […]
Artist’s Vomit Painting May Cause You to Puke
Vomit painter Millie Brown creates what some people call art by drinking colored milk and regurgitating it onto a white canvas or even her own dress. Is it just me, or is art getting weirder and weirder. I mean I’ve seen “artists” paint with their breasts, create props from meat and eve dude that paints […]
Artist Builds The Great Wall of Vagina
It’s not as old or as long as the Great Wall of China, but artist Jamie McCartney’s “Great Wall of Vagina” is definitely more shocking. The English sculptor has spent the last five years working on this controversial artwork, casting plaster molds of 400 vulvas of women aged 18 to 76. The models used for […]
Artist Makes Stomach Turning Art Out of Marzipan
In an attempt to show the world things can look unattractive on the outside but be sweet on the inside, artist Helga Petrau-Heinzel has created a series of disgusting sculptures out of delicious marzipan. It all began when the artist saw a picture of Dame Barbara Cartland, a romantic fiction author, and was fascinated by […]
The Krzywy Domek – Poland’s Crooked House
Looking at these photographs you have to wonder whether this is real or the result of an optical illusion. The Krzywy Domek, as it is originally called, is part of the Rezident shopping center in Sopot, Poland. It is three stories high, has a total of about 4,000 square meters and is now the “residence” […]
Chinese Artist Showcases Venus de Milo Statue Made of Excrements
Zhu Cheng, one of China’s most famous and talented sculptors, has helped nine of his art students to create a replica of Venus de Milo out of excrements. Now, I know we’ve had quite a few strange art mediums here at Oddity Central, from garbage to chewing gum, but excrement has to be the weirdest […]
The Weird Art of Dimitri Tsykalov
Dimitri Tsykalov is one of the few artists out there who don’t discriminate between carnivores and omnivores, he creates art for both. The truth is this Russian artist just likes to experiment with a variety art mediums. In “Meat”, one of the most disturbing art projects I’ve ever seen, Tsykalov took a bunch of naked […]
The Rat Poison Packaging Art of Jason Clay Lewis
Who knew rat poison could be used for anything other than killing rats, right? Well, American artist Jason Clay Lewis has been using the famous d-CON rat poison and its yellow packaging to create unique works of art. Jason Clay Lewis has always been fascinated by bizarre materials that help him develop his idea of […]