Video: Rubik's Cube Mosaic: Unusual Paintings by Cube Works
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Fold a Rubik's cube is not an easy task: instead of solid-colored faces, every now and then strives to get a multi-colored mosaic. But if you pretend that this was intended to heighten your interest, you can not only gain the fame of a great original, but also get into the Guinness Book of Records. This is what the members of the studio did. Cube works from Toronto. Canadian craftsmen stack portraits of celebrities from cubes and create copies of famous paintings.
Canadian studio Cube Works is an association of graphic designers and craftsmen who assemble the popular toy. Together they create unusual paintings from the Rubik's cube. One art object takes hundreds and even thousands of puzzles. For example, a copy of the famous masterpiece by Sandro Botticelli "The Birth of Venus" consists of 7,062 cubes, and the size of the canvas is 3.5 x 6 meters. Cubovariant of the fresco from the Sistine Chapel "The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo - the world record holder: a picture of 4, 5 x 8, 8 meters is made up of 12,090 cubes!
Over the years, the craftsmen of the Cube Works studio have become so proficient in the art of creating non-standard art that the audience has suspicions. Aren't Canadians cheating: maybe they break cubes into pieces, and then make up multi-colored images, like a simple mosaic of plastic smalt? But all vague doubts are dispelled when viewing photos and videos, which capture the process of assembling unusual paintings.
Some of Cube Works' original creations take advantage of the material's capabilities. One of the works of Canadian masters "disintegrates" into its component parts, and a multicolored cubic rain (or, judging by the density of "drops", rather hail) pours on the floor of the exhibition hall.
Other art works are often created in several color variants at once: the scheme of cubic "cross stitching" is the same, but different "threads" are selected.
The creator of the world-famous toy, Erno Rubik, in the distant 70s could hardly have imagined that in more than 30 years his development would become material both for portraits of outstanding personalities of the 20th century, and for copies of monumental paintings by the titans of the Renaissance.
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