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108 self portraits

A photoshop montage of 108 great artists from DaVinci, Michaelangelo, Picasso, Monet, Rembrandt and Gaugin to Escher, Harring, Rockwell, Suess, Pollack & Dali and everyone in between all standing in one room together. I started with mostly scanned portraits and busts from art books and rebuilt the rest of their bodies taking care to maintain the painting style of each artist. I used my own and several models body parts to recreate the missing anatomy and carefully shaded and shadowed the overlaps to maintain realism. Architectural elements of Frank Lloyd Wright and Reny Mackintosh completed the room and finally the whole thing was printed on a 15 foot canvas stretched and framed and now appears in the house of a client who commissioned the work for a tidy sum (bless his heart). The piece took over 6 months to create and included an outlined legend to identify the names.

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Liz Robinson 07 Jun 2008

Excellent Work of Art R.R. and so informative.

John Enright 07 Jun 2008

this is a mindboggling piece of work!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous Guest 28 Apr 2008

ARE YOU IN HERE TOO? HAPPY BIRTHDAY

L.A. Spilsbury 19 Dec 2007

great idea and very interesting work

chuck vest 16 May 2007

I totally agree with Adam, this is brilliant. The work of this piece is mind boggling....excellent RR

Artist Reply: Thanks so much, chuck. It's true, I have the boggled mind as evidence. But as I said I was retained for quite a chunk of time to complete it and the client hardly rushed me at all, a rare luxury for an artist. Now you see why i appreciate how much you say with so few lines in your more minimalist pieces. C]8?J)