Sketches in the Spirit of the Sprats -- But With A Twist
Some years ago, artists
Fernando Botero and
Alberto Giacometti joined
forces to execute a series
of portraits of famous
pairs of characters from
world culture created, in
many of these cases, by
famous authors -- characters
who were usually portrayed
as mutually thin and fat.
Against expectations however,
Botero, famous for rendering
his subjects as extremely full-
figured, elected to portray the
thinner of the two characters
in his signature style, while
Giacometti, well- known for his
treatment of subjects as almost
painfully thin, chose to portray
the normally fatter of the
characters in that style for which
he was famous. Sadly, both artists
died before even a single of their
projected works was completed.
However, several preliminary
sketches have recently come
to light; a few appear below.
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Stanley Laurel & Oliver Norville Hardy (An Incomplete Sketch) |
