Yo Joe!
Posted on March 23, 2004 @ 9:49 am
When we were kids, my best friend and I always settled for taking apart our action figures and swapping their heads, arms, and legs, but it seems that the potential for creating art using G.I. Joe figures knows no bounds…
Artist uses GI Joe to recreate masters
AnanovaA Chilean artist has opened an exhibition in which he recreates famous paintings with plastic toys.
Pablo Ferrer uses toys from the GI Joe range — the US equivalent of Action Man — to recreate masterpieces by the likes of Rubens.
He says his Liliput to Brobdingnag exhibition, at the Gabriela Mistral Gallery, is intended to be humourous.
Mr Ferrer told Las Ultimas Noticias: “I think that my work has something funny about it because it shows an ironic view on the history of art. Also it makes you think about the phoney side of the paintings.”
I don’t know art, but I know what I like — and I like any piece of art that features Dr. Mindbender prominently.
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That is so cool. GO JOE!