The typewriter is seems long forgotten after computers entered our lives. Over the last few decades, Bhide has created almost 35 portraits and so. He mainly uses about five alphabets and symbols off the keyboard – &, “, W. Being in a Government office just like his father, he didn’t give up his love for art and soon realized that his typing speed was better than others and started to use letters and symbols to create art - from Ganesh figures to huge portraits of people. He turns the platen to move the paper and selects different characters to make the shapes he wants. The sound of clickety-clack, clickety-clack, ding rings come out from his home and it’s been more than 2 decades. In the above video, you can see Chandrakant Bhide, an ordinary man using his extraordinary skills to draw portraits of famous people. Cedar Mountain Studios handcrafts and curates original. It was shocking and unfathomable to see someone use a typewriter which was only known as a writing machine, to be used as a medium for creating art. Vintage Typewriter Pop Art 1 Painting Naxart Studio 22 Three-quarter Typewriter Photograph Roderick E. Typewriter sign wall art contains heartfelt messages about the most important people in our lives. Paul based his portrait of Christ below on the Head of Christ painting by Warner Sallman in 1940. Most of us have always been fascinated with different art forms and artists and for this reason, we have a special a series on it, “Let’s Talk Art”, where different artists have talked about their unique art form and how and why it has made a difference for them.įirst in the series is the episode about a man who has been using his typewriter for the past 23 years to make portraits. Paul beautifully incorporated the use of colored typewriter ribbons in his reproduction of Christ in Gethsemane, originally painted by Heinrich Hoffman in 1886. We never really thought about the fact that art is not only limited to pencil, eraser and paintbrushes, but it is more.
But can we imagine the same being done through a typewriter? Yes, a machine which we have all long forgotten and used to know as a writing machine.ĭuring school days, haven't we all gotten a scolding from our art teacher in school? Haven’t we all heard them say that if we don’t draw properly, they wouldn’t allow us in class from the next time?
How convenient is it for all of us to pick up a pencil, an eraser and draw figures on paper.
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