Video: Simplified Celebrity Portraits by Sam Kerr
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In childhood, many of us painted portraits of writers and poets in literature textbooks, adding mustaches to them, changing hairstyles, facial features, image and even gender. Here comes the British illustrator Sam Kerr turned this occupation into a real art, creating a kind of series of portraits of celebrities.
iPad can be used as a creative tool! This is more than proven by the work of David Hockney, Katie Sokoler and David Kassan. But, if the mentioned authors used the tablet computer only as one of the platforms for the realization of their artistic talent, and did it deliberately, then Sam Kerr simply had no other choice.
This story began with the illness of the British author, due to which he spent six months practically without getting out of bed. And he could not draw fully at that time. But Sam Kerr discovered the visual possibilities of the iPad tablet computer, which can easily be used instead of a brush, paints, pencils and other drawing tools.
During the period of Sam Kerr's illness, a series of portraits of famous people appeared. Each of these images is based on a photograph of a famous person: actors Dustin Hoffman, Roger Moore and Peter Falk, style icon Jacqueline Kennedy and even the aforementioned artist David Hockney. Kerr, creating his works, erased the refined features from the faces of these people, replacing them with rough, very conventional lines. Nevertheless, each of them remained quite recognizable.
Thus, Sam Kerr wanted to show that over time, the recognition of a famous person is based not on his face, but on the external image he created, on introduced, not innate details of his appearance.
The described works of Sam Kerr are an artistic experiment in which the author examines the relationship between a person's appearance and his image. And it doesn't matter that it is very primitive in terms of execution - conceptual art is called that way because it is based on a concept.
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