Video: Puzzling portraits of great people from Viktor Molev
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In the paintings of Viktor Molev, you can look at fish, trees, dragons or flying sheets of paper for a long time and with interest. You do not immediately understand that each fragment is an element of the mosaic. All these slightly abstract canvases are in fact portraits of the Great Ones: from Elvis Presley and Albert Einstein to the prototype of Mona Lisa.
Viktor Molev is an architect by training, but he devoted himself to painting. His original paintings are full of details and unusual characters. Among the most interesting works of the artist is a series of portraits of great people in the style of a visual puzzle. With a little effort (or simply by reducing the picture 5-10 times), you can easily recognize familiar faces. By the way, the artistic image of Mona Lisa was not just in the company of Churchill and Einstein. These are the first samples. An attempt to encrypt in detail the brilliant work of Leonardo, gave impetus to the creation of the entire series.
To encrypt a picture among secondary images is a very old technique - our consciousness stores images from as something whole, a couple of typical strokes will vividly recall a person, as in sketchy portraits of famous people or in pencil drawings, and not with pencils from Kyle Bean. But the key features cannot be recognized until you capture the composition with a single glance. However, Molev's work is not a simple caricature. Churchill in the figure of a praying demon, Einstein's profile in a whirlwind of abstract formulas and the face of Freddie Mercury created by a flower and a female figure … the association with the prototype arises even before the understanding comes that the gaze is stuck in the details and must be looked wider. First, you realize the allegory, and only then you recognize the portrait of a great (or simply famous) person.
Viktor Molev was born in Nizhny Novgorod, but emigrated abroad in the nineties. For the past five years, our former compatriot has been living and working in Canada, and only sometimes comes to his historical homeland with exhibitions. You can get acquainted with other works of Victor, including the newest ones, on the author's website of the artist or in his personal blog (unlike the website, it is in the artist's native Russian language).
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