Video: Pictures from postage stamps. Collages Yao Shaowu
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 02:10
Usually, postage stamps can be of value in two ways: if the stamp is rare and you are a stamp collector, or if the stamp is the most common, but you really need to send a letter. Chinese artist Yao Shaowu does not belong to any of these categories and at the same time uses stamps in the thousands, creating stunning paintings from them.
There is practically no information about the talented artist on the network (or rather, in that part of it that is not related to hieroglyphs), so one can only guess how Yao Shaowu came up with the idea of creating paintings from postage stamps and where he gets such a variety of material for his works. It is also unknown how long it takes to create this or that image, although it can be assumed that a lot. After all, the process of making a collage is very painstaking: the author cuts the stamps into the smallest elements, from which he then adds real works of art.
The most famous image of Yao Shaowu is "Scene on the River Bank", presented by the artist in October 2009 at the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" in Wuhan, China. The image is simply striking in its scale. Think of the small rectangle of a postage stamp and imagine that from its particles the artist has created a picture measuring 5.38 meters in length and 0.27 meters in width. It took Yao Shaov 7 thousand stamps and almost a year of time to make such a collage, which includes more than 670 different characters!
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