8 Astoundingly Tiny Art Pieces

This time we’re talking about the 8 most astoundingly
tiny art pieces in the world and the artists who created them.

Hasan Kale

Istanbul-based artist Hasan
Kale has already done the thing where he painted on bottle caps, tiny almond,
matchsticks, and butterfly wings. At the moment, his tiniest canvas is
literally the super-thin wings of a regular house fly!

Salavat Fidai

He started his career as a lawyer, but turned to art
when he was laid off during the financial crisis of 2013 in Russia. Now, he’s
an international art sensation for the spectacular things that he carves into
the tips of pencils.

A single art piece takes
Salavat anywhere between 12 hours to 72 hours. Yet, even though he’s famous for
the sculptures he makes with pencil lead, his favorite “medium” is the seed of
a pumpkin.

Joe Fig

After making large paintings
for years Joe Fig hit a creative blog. He could no longer get himself to work
on regular paintings. So, he decided that if he can’t do “big” anymore, he’s
going to shift to tiny paintings. What’s most significant about the work of Joe
Fig is that he makes tiny dioramas as his tiny art. He’s created a whole tiny miniature
of an artist in his studio, complete with unfinished paintings, tools lying
around everywhere, and a thoughtful artist observing the work that he’s done.

Willard Wigan

Here’s someone whose precision is truly astounding. You
can’t even see his art with the naked eye. His art is so small, it fits in the
eye of a needle or on the head of a tiny pin.

To work on his sculptures, Willard Wigan had to invent
his own tools. He made a paintbrush from the fallen out hair of his
girlfriend’s eyelashes (I know, kinda creepy!).

In order to achieve the
precision (all his works are hand-made), he has to work during the late hours
of the night, when everyone is asleep and the world is very quiet.

Jonty Hurwitz

The work of Jonty Hurwitz is so small you need an
electron microscope to see it. His work measures 80 by 100 by 20 microns
(that’s 0.01% of a centimeter).

Jonty Hurowitz holds the
world record for the smallest artwork to ever have been created by a human
(without the aid of a machine).

Slinkachu

If you google “tiny art” you will definitely encounter
the work of Slinkachu. He makes tiny installations, with tiny human figures
that are traversing the train of human bodies, toothbrushes, and “jungles” made
of grass.

He’s been making these tiny
street installations since 2006.

Dalton Ghetti

Dalton Ghetti makes
incredible work using pretty regular tools — razor blades, needles, and knives.
Some of his tiny pieces took him months to create.

Satoshi Kawata

Satoshi Kawata was one of the scientists in Japan who created this bull with a special focused laser. This bull is 7 micrometers tall, and is about the size of a single human red blood cell. To this day (in 2019) this bull is the tiniest 3D sculpture to have ever been created.