Valeriya kutsan biography
VALERIYA KUTSAN 1/4 – Was born in Tomsk, Siberia (Russia)....
Russian stylist, makeup artist and master of body art Valeria Kutsan works in a creative duo with a professional photographer Alexander Khokhlov.
2D or not 2D - Find Real Faces Beneath The Stunning Artwork
The Russian duo of make-up artist Valeriya Kutsan and photographer Alexander Khokhlov took to recreating some of the finest and most famous artworks of all times such as, Leonardo da Vinci’s lady with a smile: Mona Lisa, or the bold and beautiful comic styled female character of Roy Lichtenstein.
Instead of using the canvas, Valeriya Kutsan decided to use real human faces to recreate these masterpieces and her use of brilliant colors and bold outlines makes these portraits appear two-dimensional.
From facial red dots and canary yellow hair color to newspaper cuttings and oil paints, Valeriya made her dream come true by creating the project in pop-art style.
“Valeriya decided to use different techniques of make-up to create our own posters with model faces so even the Mona Lisa in our project is digitalized and looks modern,” said Khokhlov.
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