Pictures shared by artist Johannes Stoetter on social media are not immediately looked at. In order to understand the illusions he has revealed to his 127 thousand followers on Instagram, it is necessary to analyze calmly. Bodypainter specialist paints animals on people.
That’s the case with this whale painting. In the first post, several followers reported that body model Vilija Vitkute is difficult to identify. Later, the artist came up with his position to represent the animal as if it were swimming in a video.
Another painting shows a painted model of a sea turtle standing on a rock. The painting impressed Johannes Stoetter’s followers. One Instagram user said, “It’s a human!” Wrote. “You are a genius,” said another.
In an interview with Vogue magazine when she was on the cover of the French edition in September last year, Stoetter said she started painting for a group of friends.
“After studying philosophy, I became a painter and musician. I also did my first body painting for a group of friends. First I put people in front of abstract backgrounds, then I tried to use nature as a background. The desire to integrate bodies with it until it disappears,” he says.
The artist says that one of the moments he enjoys most in the work is when he discovers the appropriate human position to cause optical illusions.
“I especially love the moment I discover the human position to shape an animal or an object. So when an illusion works well, I can spend hours looking at it to appreciate it,” she told the magazine.
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source: Noticias
