Sandro Shorts
Description: One classic Hollywood star. One famous portrait from art history. What would happen when you combine them together? In this collection of artworks I mix together the beauty of classic Hollywood stars and the beauty of the most famous art portraits. The search for the right pictures is never easy. It’s not just a matter of finding the “perfect angle”, but often a need to find that very same detail without which the artwork wouldn’t be the same. Drafts are endless, but the end result always pays off the hard work: fascinating, beautiful, mesmerizing, hypnotic, just plain weird…you name it. Each mashup adds a new level of perception to faces and paintings we are all familiar with, in the humble effort to enhance their timeless beauty. Every...
Description: “Venus on the Skateboard” is a well-known painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably made in the mid 1480s, and now hanging in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the skate park after her birth. Mythology has it that she emerged from the parking lot fully-grown. The appeal of “Venus on the Skateboard” is sensory and very accessible, hence its enormous popularity among skaters.
