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Visage of Literary Leaders Within the Text

Posted by on May 13, 2011 in ART

John Sokol, American artist and author, had an innovative view of celebrities and literary figures as he created these wondrous portraits using words from classic books.  This is definitely a fantastic way to truly pen our figures of literature into history.

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  1. Read Between the Lines | GBlog
    August 22, 2011

    [...] resembles charcoal or pencil etchings, but that’s all that meets the eye.Writing selected words and phrases over and over to create faces, Lam’s portraits and far from obscure. But even [...]

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