Video: Simple and straightforward. Schematic portraits of famous people in the Simple Public Figures project
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
"And I recognize a sweetheart by his gait, he wears, wears breeches …" And I also recognize a neighbor by his barrel-shaped figure, a thin and tall classmate - by eternal stilettos, a fellow student - by a pointed-nosed profile … And also by details I recognize those who are each the day flashes in various stories on television: well-known personalities have enough identification marks. Therefore, it is possible to identify a celebrity without even seeing her face - according to the unchanging, traditional, peculiarities of this particular person. Arabic designer and artist Ali Al Sumayin took this idea to create a series of minimalist print portraits of famous people, calling his project Simple Public Figures … KVN teams like to use this technique in their performances: indeed, in order to show the audience that there is a definite person in front of them, a well-known personality, one does not need to look for an absolutely similar double. One has only to reproduce that very distinctive feature - hairstyle, costume, facial expressions and gestures, accessories or accent, and the character will immediately become recognizable.
So, Marilyn Monroe is recognized by red lips, straw curls and a mole. Hitler's mustache and hairstyle, Mahatma Gandhi's mustache and glasses … Ali Al Sumayin reproduced all this in his minimalist portraits, inviting us to guess who is hiding behind certain details.
Illustration and graphics, as well as painting and photography, are the author's longtime hobbies. For more than 10 years, Ali Al Sumayin has not parted with his camera, and during this time he managed to participate in numerous exhibitions, both local and international. The maestro lives and works in Dubai, but due to his natural curiosity and creative profession he likes to travel the world, and not so much with a camera under his arm, but to accumulate inspiration for other hobbies - illustrations, painting, graphics …
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