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Blending In Artistically

Posted By Becky Ances Posted on June 24, 2011
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Chinese people are known for blendin in with the crowd. No one wants to stand too far out of the norm here. And for Beijing based artist Liu Bolin, it’s no different. Only he takes blending in to a whole ‘nother level.

He takes a picture of a scene he wants to blend into, and then works on poses and how he will have to be painted. Then his assistants paint him to match the scene exactly based on his design (a process that can take 10 hours). Then he closes his eyes and he disappears into the background.
 




He’s done famous places, he’s done mundane places, he’s been in a couple of different countries and how he is headed to NYC for a new showing. (Read this  WSJ article for more info.) So if you are lucky and live in the New York area maybe you can go and see him..or not see him, which might even be cooler.

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