Video: Potato portraits (by Ginou Choueiri)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Do you draw beautifully on paper with paints or pencils? Ha, who doesn't know how. But on the potatoes to draw something? And not kalya-malya, but a portrait? Some people succeed in this idea with a bang.
For example, Ginou Choueiri created a real art installation, because the number of his works is measured in tens, if not hundreds. He just took a potato and painted it! And to say that he did a great job is to say nothing. The artist himself writes this: “I chose the potato to depict a human face, because of the many striking parallels. Not only does the potato very much resemble human skin in color, but also in the structure of the skin, and the potato itself is shaped like a head."
Of course, it is impossible to completely agree with the artist, because sometimes you come across such potatoes that you don't always manage to peel, what can we say about drawing on them. But some may also ask this question - not only in Africa, but all over the world, people are starving, the crisis has engulfed everything, and someone takes and draws on potatoes, instead of eating them … In a word, the project turned out to be ambiguous, after all, there may be too many dissatisfied with such an attitude towards food. But for the talent, for the perseverance and patience of the artist, it is worth praising - after all, it is hardly very easy - to paint on such an uneven surface.
Works by Ginou Choueiri
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