Video: Portraits on street facades by Alexandre Farto
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The artist Alexandre Farto creates fantastically realistic portraits on the facades of street buildings. Looking at his work, it seems to people that the portraits were mistakenly developed not on photographic paper, but on concrete and plaster. And now impressionable townspeople think that the houses themselves are watching them with the eyes of the people depicted on them.
The works look voluminous, realistic, but unfortunately short-lived. It is alarming that the wall seems to be crumbling all over now, and with it the portrait of a man whose gaze is directed into the distance.
Pay attention - no paint from the spray, all the details are scratched, exposing the bottom layer. And the face is very realistic, bright. The beard and burning eyes make the man look like an old grandee.
This portrait, unlike the previous one, is almost not developed. It looks like a ghost who thought about and missed the coming of the morning, when all decent ghosts should disappear.
The most optimistic portrait. Maybe because it is illuminated by the bright sun, which gives it a pinkish hue. Or maybe because the look is confident, cheerful and directed to the future. Or maybe simply because this is the youngest and most modern face of today's portraits.
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