Anamorphic Portrait by Bernard Pras
French Artist Bernard Pras
recreates well-known images and icons out of specifically chosen found
objects, arranged in a specific form. Pras sets up his camera at a
well-defined angle so that the objects themselves merge and a portrait
appears. Pras has created photos of personalities such as Albert
Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, Mao Zedong and pop culture icons
like Porn star Lolo and martial arts master Bruce Lee. His inspiration
also includes fine art like well-known paintings by masters like
Guiseppe Arcimboldo, Edvard Munch, Salvador Dali, and Japanese woodcut
artist Hiroshige. Bernard Pras was born in 1952 in the
south-west of France. After more than 20 years spent as a painter, and
also a sculptor of recovered objects, Pras conceived in 1997, this
astonishing form of expression, using photography as a basis for the
creation of what amounts to a form of installation art.
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