Paint on bananas. Art has no boundaries as regards its forms of expression and the materials used within the creations by the artists. In fact, there are those who manage to create real works of art by painting on the peels of bananas and creating with extreme precision miniature reproductions of famous paintings or portraits of well-known personalities.
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Art has no boundaries as regards its forms of expression and the materials used within the creations by the artists.
There are indeed those who succeed in create real works of art painting on banana peels and creating with extreme precision miniature reproductions of famous paintings or portraits of well-known personalities.
Honey, graphic artist originally from the Philippines, in his spare time he dedicates himself to the art of decorating banana peels using as the only means to design a common safety pin. His art is based on oxidation process which allows the peel to darken in the points where it is engraved using the safety pin. His work is very similar to that of a tattoo artist. Honey in fact composes drawings on bananas proceeding point by point. The artist is mainly dedicated to the reproduction on bananas of the faces of famous personalities from the world of music, such as Bob Marley, Jim Morrison and the Blues Brothers.
The multimedia artist Phil Hansen reproduces famous works of art on banana peels relying on a technique similar to pointillism. For the realization of his works, the artist uses the tip of the pin, exploiting the oxidation process undergone by the peel of bananas, as in the previous case.
His creations are similar to tattoos and are inspired by famous works of art such as the Last Judgment, Botticelli's Venus and Degas's Ballerinas.
The Australian Jun Gil Park represents the third case of an artist who undertakes to consider banana peels as real ones canvases to paint on. His artistic tool consists of a simple one toothpick. Initially he takes care of tracing the contours of the drawing and then of coloring it. The oxidation process begins after about five minutes. His drawings were born by chance and turned into small masterpieces full of details.
Draw and paint on bananas it represents a really curious artistic technique which, in words, appears quite simple. You would experience it, perhaps to make sure that your children have fun and learn at the same time appreciate fruit more?
Marta Albè
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