{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Urban Design"],"cover":{"alt":"Map Cuts - Paper Art","height":840,"src":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/map-cuts-paper-art/map-cut-paper-art1.jpg","width":1880},"credit":"","date":"2009-11-17T17:24:43Z","description":"The paper artworks by American artist Karen O’Leary are really amazing! By removing the unnecessary, she created fantastic cut-outs of NY, London and Paris...","html":"\u003cp\u003eI love artworks, which are influenced by maps or the city itself. For this reason, I already wrote some articles about this part of contemporary art - remind the \u003ca href=\"/manhattan-skyline-drawing-stephen-wiltshire/\"\u003eManhattan Skyline Drawing by Stephen Wiltshire\u003c/a\u003e or the fantastic \u003ca href=\"/linocut-typography-paris/\"\u003etypographic lino-cut by Mark Andrew Webber\u003c/a\u003e. Today I will present another great example:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether New York, Paris or London, American artist \u003cstrong\u003eKaren O’Leary\u003c/strong\u003e’s map cuts are amazing! She hand-cuts parts of original maps into paper and reveals in this way the paths, nodes, circles, boulevards, parks and streets of some of the greatest cities in the world.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKaren begun with Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx, afterwards she cut Paris and recently Great Britain’s capital, London.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor me, these paper artworks look like spiderwebs and seem to be violative, or better instable. This is a heavy difference to people’s feeling of urbanity, which usually is characterized by strength and stability. I like the map cuts - Thumb up!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"archive-figure historical-figure\"\u003e\u003cpicture style=\"--image-width: 1720px; --image-ratio: 1720 / 2408\" data-source-width=\"1720\" data-source-height=\"2408\" data-width-cap=\"1440\" data-height-cap=\"2408\"\u003e\n  \u003csource type=\"image/avif\" srcset=\"/map-cuts-paper-art/map-cut-paper-art2_hu_8eed7d8fd6366ee1.avif 480w, /map-cuts-paper-art/map-cut-paper-art2_hu_8c33f0255525a856.avif 960w, /map-cuts-paper-art/map-cut-paper-art2_hu_dd78827ec9e591c0.avif 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n  \u003csource type=\"image/webp\" srcset=\"/map-cuts-paper-art/map-cut-paper-art2_hu_603b945a051dd19f.webp 480w, /map-cuts-paper-art/map-cut-paper-art2_hu_abb4c98782278f2d.webp 960w, /map-cuts-paper-art/map-cut-paper-art2_hu_f404fe1fdd0c20a1.webp 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg src=\"/map-cuts-paper-art/map-cut-paper-art2_hu_22d0bbb4e61e5bd7.jpg\" srcset=\"/map-cuts-paper-art/map-cut-paper-art2_hu_2e86f4aa84508ebc.jpg 480w, /map-cuts-paper-art/map-cut-paper-art2_hu_d8342cbfd5264182.jpg 960w, /map-cuts-paper-art/map-cut-paper-art2_hu_22d0bbb4e61e5bd7.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\" width=\"1440\" height=\"2016\" alt=\"map cut - paper-art\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\n\u003c/picture\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003emap cut - paper-art\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n \u003cfigure class=\"archive-figure historical-figure\"\u003e\u003cpicture style=\"--image-width: 1720px; --image-ratio: 1720 / 2408\" data-source-width=\"1720\" data-source-height=\"2408\" data-width-cap=\"1440\" data-height-cap=\"2408\"\u003e\n   \u003csource type=\"image/avif\" srcset=\"/map-cuts-paper-art/map-cuts_hu_369d93f34357443d.avif 480w, /map-cuts-paper-art/map-cuts_hu_3509ba3eb68a2de5.avif 960w, /map-cuts-paper-art/map-cuts_hu_cf98b5059a069780.avif 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n   \u003csource type=\"image/webp\" srcset=\"/map-cuts-paper-art/map-cuts_hu_7fedbeffe407b624.webp 480w, /map-cuts-paper-art/map-cuts_hu_96f4b5a0235f8411.webp 960w, /map-cuts-paper-art/map-cuts_hu_a4673c5e522ba0db.webp 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n   \u003cimg src=\"/map-cuts-paper-art/map-cuts_hu_243f2de255379953.jpg\" srcset=\"/map-cuts-paper-art/map-cuts_hu_9917cb8df421e311.jpg 480w, /map-cuts-paper-art/map-cuts_hu_ce34ef9dbfeacbda.jpg 960w, /map-cuts-paper-art/map-cuts_hu_243f2de255379953.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\" width=\"1440\" height=\"2016\" alt=\"map cuts\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\n \u003c/picture\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003emap cuts\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n \u003c/figure\u003e\n\nVia \u003ca href=\"http://thejailbreak.com/2009/10/26/new-york-city-and-paris-map-cuts/\"\u003ethejailbreak.com\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\nI love artworks, which are influenced by maps or the city itself. For this reason, I already wrote some articles about this part of contemporary art - remind the [Manhattan Skyline Drawing by Stephen Wiltshire](/manhattan-skyline-drawing-stephen-wiltshire/) or the fantastic [typographic lino-cut by Mark Andrew Webber](/linocut-typography-paris/). Today I will present another great example:\n\nWhether New York, Paris or London, American artist **Karen O’Leary**’s map cuts are amazing! She hand-cuts parts of original maps into paper and reveals in this way the paths, nodes, circles, boulevards, parks and streets of some of the greatest cities in the world.\n\nKaren begun with Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx, afterwards she cut Paris and recently Great Britain’s capital, London.\n\nFor me, these paper artworks look like spiderwebs and seem to be violative, or better instable. This is a heavy difference to people’s feeling of urbanity, which usually is characterized by strength and stability. I like the map cuts - Thumb up!\n\n![map cut - paper-art](\u003chttps://www.urbanartcore.com/map-cuts-paper-art/map-cut-paper-art2.jpg\u003e)\n\nmap cut - paper-art ![map cuts](\u003chttps://www.urbanartcore.com/map-cuts-paper-art/map-cuts.jpg\u003e)\n\nmap cuts \nVia [thejailbreak.com](http://thejailbreak.com/2009/10/26/new-york-city-and-paris-map-cuts/).\n","tags":["Paper Art","Print","Street Art London","Street Art Paris","Art Map"],"title":"Map Cuts - Paper Art","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/map-cuts-paper-art/"}