The Anamorphosis Works of Bernard Pras

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Bernard Pras is considered one of the strangest, most original artists of our generation. He creates art by stacking ordinary objects on a piece of canvas, a process known as anamorphosis.

56-year-old Pras was born in 1952, in the south-west of France and spent his childhood in a toy-store. He later began working as a painter and sculptor of recovered objects. After a short career as an art teacher he came up with a new form of expressing himself some people call “trash-art”.

Starting from a photograph, Bernard Pras creates amazing pieces of art, by adding ordinary objects like used toys, tools, pieces of rubber, or whatever else you can think of. From up-close his works look like nothing more than random stacks of stuff, but from a certain angle and distance, they reveal their true beauty.

Photos by vvdm-gallery

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Louis XIV

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Marylin

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Che Guevara

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Catwoman

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The Scream

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Daredevil

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Einstein

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Manga

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Lolo

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Fantomas

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Mao

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Bruce Lee

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Geisha

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Wonder-woman

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Liberty

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