Sunday, December 6, 2015

Bored Panda

Craig Allan creates unique portraits of pop-culture icons using people as pixels to create portraits. Some of his famous pieces are of Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy and the Statue of Liberty, but probably the coolest oneI see is the portrait of Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast At Tiffany’s.
From the site: "Craig’s earliest experimentation took the form of street portraiture, an endeavor that helped him perfect his flair for replicating the human figure and afforded the budding artist a sense of economic autonomy."
I enjoy art from people who look at life from a different point of view, which this definitely is. Anyone can paint a portrait, but it takes a lot of preparation and effort to create something this detailed of that scale. He took something as modern as pixels and made them organic as the medium and the subject. 


 

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