A well-known artist Michael Craig-Martin has created «computer» a portrait of the famous female architect. Recently, this work was included in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery

The National Portrait Gallery has a new exhibit: LCD monitor, at first glance resembles a painting. It can be seen a portrait of the most famous female architect in the world, born in Iraq Zahi Hadid (Zaha Hadid). Feature of the portrait done by British artist Michael Craig-Martin (Michael Craig-Martin), is that it often changes its color.

«Everything flows, everything changes» - this is an ancient phrase remember when looking at soft forms of architecture Hadid. In order to better express the essence of her art, while creating a portrait artist has used the principle of constant change and peretekaniya one color to another. The image on the monitor is controlled by a special program, at the whim of the person Hadid becomes the green jacket from the Issey Miyake - turquoise and orange hair. But after a while the person painted in pink, the hair - in purple ... The colors are constantly changing, and the chance to see the same combination twice practically zero. Creation Craig-Martin recalls installation Brian Ino (Brian Eno), where a computer program consists of thousands of abstract painting or stained glass church Gerhard Richter (Gerhard Richter), representing a set of colored squares, the location where computer generated. In general, what you see on the screen is created by the artist only in part. Craig-Martin portrait набросал only Zahi and «filled» the program to your computer. And what color will the image on the monitor decides electronic brain.

Zaha Hadid is one of the main stars of British architecture, it was designed Water Sports Center, the most outstanding building of those that will be built for Olympic Games 2012. Hadid famous futuristic architecture, affecting their «feminize» current forms. In 2004, she became the first woman - Prittskerovskoy the winner of the prestigious award. The most famous of its creations - Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, which the newspaper The New York Times called «the most important building in America since the Cold War», as well as the BMW building in Leipzig, Phæno Science Center in Wolfsburg and the railway station in Innsbruck . Projects Hadid is impressive: in addition to the London stadium, it planned to build a Hermitage-Guggenheim museum in Vilnius and Museum Eli and Edith Brody in Michigan.

Michael Craig-Martin is also the artist is not the last. He was famous because «psychedelic» painting of everyday objects. In the 1970's and 1980's, he taught at the famous College of Goldsmiths. The Art of Craig-Martin is influenced art «Young British Artists» - Gary Hume (Gary Hume), Sarah Lucas (Sarah Lucas), Demiena Hurst (Damien Hirst) .

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Sources: artdaily.org , artinvestment.ru