Anamorphosis is a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image. The word "anamorphosis" is derived from the Greek prefix ana-, meaning back or again, and the word morphe, meaning shape or form.
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There are two main types of anamorphosis: Perspective (oblique) and Mirror (catoptric). You can check my previous post here as an example for mirror anamorphosis.
Contemporary French artist Bernard Pras was born in the South-west of France in a toy shop. After more than 20 years as a painter, and also a sculptor of recovered objects, in 1997 Pras came up with an astonishing form of expression. Using photography as a basis for the creation, he creates amazing pieces of art.
Assemblage/Installation of various items and photographed from a certain angle to depict the final result
Louis XIV
Marilyn Monroe
Che Guevara
The Scream
Albert Einstein
Mickey Mouse
Bruce Lee
Check his website: http://www.bernardpras.fr/
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Bernard Pras
Bernard Pras, né le à Roumazières-Loubert en Charente, est un artiste photographe plasticienfrançais.
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Bernard Pras est le fils de Jacques Pras, cycliste de Jarnac, professionnel dans les années 1940 et 1950. Élevé en partie par sa grand-mère qui tenait une épicerie et qui l'initiera à l'art, il fait des études courtes de mécanique, qu'il abandonne rapidement pour s'inscrire aux Beaux-Arts de Poitiers puis de Toulouse. Diplômé en 1974 des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse, Bernard Pras devient maître auxiliaire dans différents collèges avant de démissionner de l'Éducation nationale. Son activité artistique s'oriente alors vers la gravure chez Claude Manesse.
À la fin des années 1980, après plusieurs années de doute et de recherches sur la forme, il commence à trouver sa propre voie artistique en mettant au point le principe de l'aquagravure, puis en 1994, en réalisant des installations et assemblages d'objets hétéroclites à la manière d'Arcimboldo, dont la composition globale ne prend réellement forme pour le spectateur que par le truchement de la photographie qui recrée l'image plane voulue par l'artiste. La première exposition d'importance a lieu en 1998. Ce principe d'anamorphose est depuis le fil conducteur de l'artiste, qui s'essaie à des installations plus grandes et travaillées sous forme d'Inventaires variés réinterprétant diverses images connues de l'histoire de l'art (Crucifixion, van Gogh, Francis Bacon...), et de la société contemporaine (portraits d'Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, Mickey, Jacques Dutronc...).
En 2001, il réalise le générique de la 26 Nuit des César sur la demande du réalisateur Arnaud Vincenti. En 2007, il réalise pour le Festival international de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême une installation en trompe-l'œil intitulée et représentant Captain America.
Il vit et travaille près de Paris, à Montreuil.
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Bernard Pras
Bernard Pras earned his Fine Arts degree in Toulouse in 1974. He became a virtuoso of anamorphosis, juxtaposition and superposition of eclectic objects in 1998, when he stopped painting and began creating installations which he photographed. Bernard appropriates the images of various icons from art history and contemporary society and creates images that can be understood from a single pre-established perspective. Without photography, installations filling a space for a short time would remain the privilege of a select few. So the work of Bernard Pras could not exist without the photograph ; that final shot where the artist transforms his three- dimensional works into just two, for the pleasure of our astonished eyes.
Bernard Pras
Virtuoso of anamorphosis, juxtaposition and superposition of eclectic objects
Amy, Photographie, 80X80cm, 2018
Venus, Photographie, 106X80cm, 2018
Orange mécanique, Photographie, 160X120cm, 2018
Magritte, Photographie, 160X120cm, 2018
Jordan, Photographie, 106X80cm, 2018
James, Photographie, 160X120cm, 2018
Bocuse, Photographie, 106X80cm, 2018
Bashung, Photographie, 80X60cm, 2018
Basquiat, Photographie, 30X22cm, 2018
Louis XIV, Photographie, 80X60cm, 2003
Jimi Hendrix, Photographie, 80X60cm, 2000
Belle d'Antan II, Techniche Mixte - Installation, 47X39X16cm
Pras combines the technique of anamorphosis
B.PRAS
An Acimboldo of the 21st century ?
Pras, a contemporary French artist using photography and lithography, is considered one of the most uncommon artists of the new generation.
Assemblage/Installation of various items and photographed from a certain angle to depict the final result.
Works acquired directly from the artist. (Click on the image to enlarge)
" Louis XIV "
" Mao "
" Arcimboldo "
" Marilyn "
" Burce Lee "
" Che G."
" Donkey "
" Cat Woman "
" Le Sceam "
" Black Christ "
" Dare Devil "
" J.Dutronc "
" Einstein "
" Fantomas "
" Lolo "
" Manga "
" Medusa "
" Mickey "
" Picasso "
" World Map "
" Wave "
" Cow "
" Tom Murphy "
" Wonder Woman "
" Geisha "
" Liberty "
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- Glimpse into Pras's world ...-
Pras was born in 1952 in the south-west of France in a toy shop. After more than 20 years spent as a painter, and also a sculptor of recovered objects, Pras conceived in 1997, an astonishing form of expression, using photography as a basis for the creation of what amounts to a form of installation art.
Pras’s work does not illustrate the painter’s art but the way the eye views an object. In fact, brush and paint are replaced by the object itself.
By anamorphosis he creates a picture in relief and gives birth to portraits by randomly accumulating common objects.
Pras sets up his camera at a well-defined angle so that the objects the