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There are two of us behind the name VistulArt - Dagmara and Dariusz, working together, avant-garde self-taught artists from Warsaw, Poland. As an artistic duo, we create unconventional works "painted" only with sewing thread. It is also no secret that offstage, in private life we’re a couple too. Art was actually one of the things that brought us to each other over 14 years ago and got us where we’re now.

Each of our works is created with only three fixed components: a plywood board, several hundred steel nails placed along its edges, and miles of crossing thread in various colors, types, and thicknesses drawn between them. We don't use any painting techniques, only and exclusively the thread is responsible for creating the entire picture.

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To design the paintings, we use our own methods and proprietary digital tools developed from the ground up by Dariusz. It took nearly two years of work to consider ourselves ready to lay our artwork before the public.

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Our string works can be defined as contemporary art on the borderline of new media and algorithmic art. To create it, we use a little-known technique called photorealistic and colorful string art. The lack of available know-how, ready-to-use tools and the consequent need to develop one's own methods make this kind of string art a demanding and labor-intensive technique that only a few artists in the world have mastered.

We hope our thread paintings will evoke pleasant emotions and people will enjoy our string art as much as we enjoy creating it. And remember! It's only the thread, no paint, ink, dye, etc.!

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I love her paintings! This is a beautiful portrait of her.

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Dang. That's nutty, it looks so real. I'd bolt before I attempted to string this kind of project together.

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Jan Zamoyski sounds like an interesting guy. I like the idea of someone earning fame through diplomacy rather than military conquest or having lots of money.

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Th-that's amazing.

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who is also really crazy✨️✨️ noice tho

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NOICEE✨️✨️ I WANT THIS IF ONLY I HAD THE MONEY

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Beautiful

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70x40 cm/27,5x15,7"15000 connections5,7 km/3,5 miles of the thread36 types/colors of the thread356 nailsInspired by J. Malczewski's painting, 1906.

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40x70 cm/15.7"x27.5"15000 connections5 km/3.1 miles of the thread17 types/colors of the thread356 nails

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Plywood, 60x60cm/23.5x23,5"388 nails15.000 connections6,7 km/ 4,2miles of the thread29 types/colors of the threadAccording to Gogulska's family, Malczewski himself wanted to paint the portrait because she was reminding him of his beloved mother, who died in 1898.

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60 cm/23.5" diameter9500 connections3,4 km/2,1 miles of the thread7 types/colors of the thread256 nails

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60cm/23.5" diameter13300 connections5,8km/3.6miles15 types/colors of the thread

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We're VistulArt, a Warsaw-based artistic duo.We create artworks in a little-known avant-garde technique of colorful photorealistic string art. Using our own methods and tools, we make unconventional works, in which ONLY the thread (in different colors/types/thicknesses) is responsible for creating the entire picture, we don't use any painting technique.www.vistulart.com www.instagram.com/vistul.art/

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Wow, that's creative! I wonder how these are made and how long it does take to make one piece. Do they use a machine to connect the thread, of is this done by hand? 15000 connections would take more than 4 hours when 1 connection is made per second. But I guess nobody can do it at this speed. Certainly not because every thread has to be connected to the right nail to achieve the desired picture, and such attention for precision slows down 'production' speed.

Whoa! And that is a very positive whoa, for sure. Impressive!

That's so neat!

Whoa! And that is a very positive whoa, for sure. Impressive!

That's so neat!

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