And here I thought packing tape was nothing more than... well, tape. Using translucent brown tape as his medium, Dutch street artist Max Zorn creates stunning portraits of pop figure icons like the Beatles, and classic works such as Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring."
The tape art takes on a beautiful glow through the use of light, an idea born from a nightly run through Amsterdam. By cutting and taping onto a piece of flexible Plexiglass, Zorn was able to clamp the artwork onto street lamps, which gave his portraits extra depth by illuminating through many layers of translucent tape.
Zorn's tape art has appeared on buildings, windows and street lamps all over Europe, from Lisbon to Berlin. Check out his website for more installations.
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(Images: Max Zorn)
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this is awesome
Photoshop posterize or cut out filter. More craft than art.
Craft or Art, still super cool.
Well really, you can make art with anything. I have a poster of the Mona Lisa done in peanut butter and jelly
@Mikeinmke From the videos it doesn't look like he's tracing any filtered reference image. Looks like he really is taping and cutting as he goes. I think that's pretty impressive.
mikenmke, you're opening up a huge discussion with equating this or brushing it off as saying it's the same using photoshop. kind of a grumpy and sweeping statement.
Impressive and in my opinion, it is art...
@Mikenmke sounds jealous. Watch the YouTube video. I've seen his work first hand and it's legit.
He's got a new making of video out of the NYC skyline, check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrnI8gd2Da0
Plus he's giving his street art out to his fans, for free, via his project Stick Together (sticktogether.maxzorn.com)