Dioramas

They are often humble tokens of everyday life, examples of folk art and cut-paper dioramas I have made that depict everything from flaming hearts to hot-air balloons.

This artist and YouTube creator teaches people how to build dioramas.

Kevin Staake’s aptly titled “Dieorama” gives an insight into Goldman’s artistic process, and her penchant for creating uncanny and darkly funny dioramas: scenes of suburban ennui gone wrong.

Below is a preview of some of those dioramas.

Crucially, Levinthal’s images of American identity through the use of dioramas and toys suggest that our collective memory of American history and culture is, in many ways, highly constructed.

If you were around in Tucson in the '80s and '90s, you might remember the little dioramas featured in the Hidden Valley Inn restaurant in the Northeast part of town.

JoAnne Baier of Elmwood had two small dioramas made by Narissa Thornber of Chicago valued at $1000 for the pair.

Manthei Farm Dioramas: through Sept. 2, miniature scenes of farming created by Chuck Manthei, a former Dassel resident.

Cooper said the dioramas include a great deal of detail including skies painted into them.

Sophia Buchett, 7, and Megan Kunz, 8, both of Washougal, create dioramas during an "Art Across America" class at Little Chick's Art Play.

The first thing that strikes you about is its “found” art style, which repurposes real-world objects into deep-space dioramas.

What about the dioramas?

Sagan writes about those visits: : I was transfixed by the dioramas—lifelike representations of animals and their habitats all over the world.

Scatter or flock is a substance used in the building of dioramas and model railways to simulate the effect of grass, poppies, fireweed, track ballast and other scenic ground cover.

Such environments as dioramas were made of composited images.