Video: Celebrity Circle Portraits by Ben Heine
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In topography, it is believed that any volumetric object, like any plane, can be described using triangles of different sizes. Here comes the Belgian artist Ben Heine I completely disagree with this. After all, he paints pictures, namely, portraits various world celebrities multicolored in circlesrather than triangles.
The work of this Belgian artist is already familiar to regular readers of our site thanks to a series of his unusual works called "Pencil Vs Camera", in which he tried to combine real city views with unassuming pencil drawings.
In his new project, Ben Heine also tries to look at the world from a different angle with creative methods. In these works, the Belgian artist paints portraits of celebrities. But he draws in a very unusual way - with the help of multi-colored circles of different sizes.
Among the celebrities drawn by Ben Heine, there are both modern celebrities and their "colleagues" from the past. This is rapper Eminem, and the King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presley, and the great Freddie Mercury, and the seductive Marilyn Monroe, and the shocking Lady Gaga, and the reggae icon Bob Marley, and the charming Johnny Depp in the image of the mad hatter from the recent movie by Tim Burton "Alice in Wonderland". Heine did not disdain to make a self-portrait in this style.
Moreover, despite all the visual and technical "lightness" of these unusual portraits, their creation takes Ben Heine a lot of time and effort. After all, he does it manually, without any computer algorithms that shift the task onto the "shoulders" of the electronic mind. Therefore, one such portrait takes him about a week on average.
In general, if there used to be a cubist Pablo Picasso and a black cubist Kazimir Malevich, now there is also a “circle” Ben Heine. The continuity of generations.
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