This artist creates images using the words of the portrayed characters.
When we visit galleries and museums, we often come across portraits of famous characters created with talented brush strokes or, perhaps, from collages or something like that. However, artist Phil Vance found a different way to do this: instead of photographing or spending hours applying layers of paint on a canvas, he recreates features, shadows, contours and details using the words people or protagonists have said. at any moment. Here's an example:
According to Emma Taggart of My Modern Met, the series has been dubbed “In Their Own Words” - and is intended to convey more than one image to the public, allowing observers can read the thoughts of the portrayed characters and "see" what was going on inside them. Thus, to create his works, Vance selects famous phrases or phrases from his protagonists and reproduces them over and over again with different sizes and colors until shaping the portraits. Check out a close up of the painting above:
Cool huh? For making one of the Joker portraits, Vance said he spent more than 100 hours compiling the character's phrases and dialogues in 2008's “Batman: The Dark Knight, ” and used the same process to recreate the faces of personalities like Pablo. Picasso, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla. Learn more about the artist's work below:
1 - Audrey Hepburn
2 - Nikola Tesla
3 - Bob Dylan
4 - Charlie Chaplin
5 - Albert Einstein
6 - Mark Twain
7 - Pablo Picasso
8 - Johnny Cash
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