I recently came across an artist who uses faces instead of canvases for a more personal kind of reinterpretation. Andy Alcala posts “Making of” videos where you can watch him perform the coolest face painting of all time; very calm and methodical, working in front of a black sheet to match the black backwards baseball cap holding his hair back. But more impressive are the collection of final photographs – dozens of repurposed masterpieces painted onto a face facing you with eyes closed.
Below you’ll find a few of his works with their corresponding artwork beside:
“You Are So Little” by Andy Warhol, 1958
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| From the artist’s Flickr here. |
“The Persistence of Memory” by Salvador Dali, 1931
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| From the artist’s Flickr here. |
“Nympheas” by Claude Money, 1904
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| From the artist’s Flickr here. |
“Sailboats in Pourville” by Anna Bilinska, 1885
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| From the artist’s Flickr here. |
“Whaam!” by Roy Lichtenstein, 1983
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| From the artist’s Flickr here. |
There’s a really cool “Making of” video for “Whaam!” on Vimeo here.
Sometimes we apply these reinterpretations of artworks to the artists themselves. We’ve all seen the adorable little artist costumes, but I really love the dissected artists, the men in full costume with their insides painted the same way their hands did.
All photos from Vlamboyant.
Dissected Picasso:
Dissected Van Gogh:
Dissected Dali:
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