Artist Creates Detailed Portraits Entirely Out of Handwritten Text
California-based artist Phil Vance spends hundreds of hours creating typography portraits of historical icons entirely out of handwritten words and phrases. From afar, Phil Vance’s typography portraits look like expertly drawn artworks, but as you draw nearer to them, you start to see that every feature is actually made up of handwritten text. Once you […]
Beautiful Word Paintings Are Made with Deconstructed Book Text
Jamie Poole works mainly as a landscape painter and art teacher, but today we’re going to look at his unique style of painting with words by using shredded poetry and book text to create incredible works of art. WE’ve featured some pretty unbelievable text artworks in the past, from John Sokol’s hand-written portraits of […]
Artist Makes Portraits of Famous People from Thousands of Words
Ralph Ueltzhoefer probably took the saying “a picture is worth a thousands words” because he actually builds detailed images from thousands of written words. The Mannheim-based German artist takes photos of celebrities from the Internet and recreates their portraits with words randomly-selected from Internet biographies, fragments of words and phrases, and Wikipedia articles that have come […]
The Written Portraits of Anatol Knotek
Anatol Knotek is a talented young Austrian artist whose visual poetry artworks revolve around the written character. Knotek’s interest in visual poetry arose around a decade ago, after a meeting with an Austrian poet. Until that time he had only been interested in painting and the classic fine arts, but after his first contact with […]