Michael Mapes has made into our Unusual Art & Fashion blog with his work of collage portraits.
His rather large pieces of art use tiny bits of photos and odd materials to make his collages.
For example here’s the materials he used on his last work of a 1639 painting of Maria Trip by Rembrandt.
- photographic prints
- insect pins
- pinning foam
- gelatin capsules
- glass vials
- painted canvas
- cast resin
- pill organizer
- plastic specimen bags
- antique optometrist lens
- cartography pins
- cotton thread
- magnification boxes
- fake pearls
Most of his work is re-imaginations of famous and well known art pieces. He describes his influence for the art as a sort of “biographical DNA” that represents the person more deeply than other mediums. And this is because format carries their artifacts as well as their image .
See more of his work down below and on his website.
Along with thousands of dissected photos of the original painting, I add a mix of other contrived materials ranging from hair samples to recent photos to costume jewelry – so called “biographical DNA”.
“His new series is inspired by Dutch Master portraiture. In a method consistent with earlier work, subjects are examined through a pseudo scientific method specifically working with materials and processes signifying entomological, biological and forensic science.”
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