Painting With Paintings
Inspired by the collection of instructional artworks found in Hans Ulrich Obrist’s book Do It, I created paintingwithpaintings.com. The website hosts instructions that encourage users to download a set of Adobe Illustrator brushes that fragment and disembody parts of paintings sourced from the Google Arts & Culture website. Users are instructed to create new portraits and compositions with the custom brushes and add their creations to a digital archive. The project is an attempt to recontextualize the history of the painted figure collectively.
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Portraits created by using the brushes:
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