Video: Chewing gum portraits. "Chewed" celebrities from the paintings of the Ukrainian artist Anna-Sofia Matveyeva
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Young Ukrainian artist Anna-Sofia Matveeva, unlike his colleagues in creativity, does not paint his pictures at all. She chews them. For a whole year now, she has not needed any paints or brushes - just a few boxes of colored chewing gum a month, so that after some time another portrait of another celebrity will appear. The girl was carried away by a completely new type of creativity: she creates paintings from chewed gum … This wonderful idea came to her mind quite by accident, but since that time she began to buy chewing gum on purpose, giving preference to fragrant multi-colored "gum". The first "chewed" painting of Anna Sophia was a portrait of Steve Jobs, for which it took about a thousand chewing gum with a total weight of about 6 kg. Naturally, the artist herself would not have coped with this task, so she connected her relatives and friends to the creative process. And they readily agreed, because it is not every day that one gets the honor of combining business with pleasure and chewing gum in the name of art.
By the way, only used chewing gum is suitable for making paintings - for some reason, soaked in water, it does not want to stick to the surface and constantly falls off. That is why Anna Sophia asks for help from friends. Together, they have already "chewed" five "star" portraits. Among them - the image of Sir Elton Joan and the coach of FC Shakhtar Donetsk Mircea Lucescu. In the future, the artist has a dozen more ideas for "rubber" portraits, but for now she needs to finish, or rather, to chew on what she has already begun. One such job requires at least 500 rubber bands, so both she and her support team will have to do a good job of jaws.
Anna-Sofia Matveeva lives in Makeyevka, a suburb of Donetsk, where the first author's exhibition of her paintings, eaten from chewing gum, will take place. Subsequently, these original works will be sold at auction.
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