Tag: portrait
Portrait artist Rusty Zimmerman, who has painted Governor Andrew Cuomo and has appeared in the New York Times, is opening up his services for the people who lives in Crown Heights. DNAinfo reports that the 5-year Crown Heights resident is launching “The Free Portrait Project: Crown Heights,” in which he will attempt to paint portraits […]
These photos were shot at the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. on August 16th during the second annual Pussy Riot protest and solidarity concert. To show their support against the unjust imprisonmentof Pussy Riot, the protestors wore brightly colored “balaclavas,” the emblem of Pussy Riot’s [attempted] anonymity and, ultimately, a signature image of protest. It’s been over […]
Movies consist of countless frames of countless faces in countless situations. How can a movie’s “identity” be summed up into one image? This is what Seoul-based artist duo Shinseungback Kimyonghun sought to find out with their project Portrait, a series of algorithmically-generated composites of faces from films like Kill Bill: Vol. 1, The Matrix, Oldboy and Taxi Driver. The artists used facial recognition […]
