Video: Portraits from poetry and prose. Pictures of Jamie Poole (Jamie Poole) from pieces of literature
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
When they talk about a verbal portrait, they mean, as a rule, a verbal description of a person, his appearance, qualities, habits, character traits. Whereas the "verbal portraits" of the British artist Jamie Poole cannot be called verbal, because they can be seen, touched, picked up, and some even read. True, with difficulty, since all these creative works are created from tens of thousands of words and sentences, once printed and then cut from newspapers, brochures and magazines. The artist began his career as a landscape painter, and although he has not painted the beauty of the world around him for a long time, he still has a love for large-scale works. The oversized portraits created by Jamie Poole from scraps of text are composed of more than 30,000 words taken from love poems, and occupy the area of an entire easel.
Striped paper portraits with printed text are an intriguing hybrid of painting, typography, and collage. They reach several feet in height, which allows you to properly examine the features of the face, its lines and shapes, and, if necessary, correct some inaccuracies. The artist's collection of art projects has not yet gathered enough paintings to organize a solo exhibition, but the intensity of work on expanding the range gives hope.
You can get acquainted with the work of Jamie Poole on his website.
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