Video: Scotch portrait: unusual paintings by Max Zorn
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Sometimes scotch tape is just scotch tape, good only for sealing boxes. The author of unusual paintings, a resident of Amsterdam, Max Zorn, fundamentally disagrees with this statement. His works are reminiscent of scenes from old films. Most often these are close-ups: although they are created in a limited range of colors, the play of light and shadow helps to achieve realism. The paintings are also unusual in that their author manages to capture a special atmosphere.
In order to be a real artist, it is not at all necessary to be able to hold a brush / pencil / computer mouse in your hand. Dutchman Max Zorn (Max Zorn), for example, works according to the algorithm: rewound - glued - cut - tore off the excess. And so, layer by layer, unusual pictures are created on plexiglass, which then decorate the street lamps. You can watch how the master wielding scotch tape and a scalpel, as well as how the lanterns illuminate his work, in the video.
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