Last year I featured a video called Women In Art that featured portraits of women from over the past 500 years morphing one into another. It was a really well done piece of work from Phillip Scott Johnson and was a YouTube sensation, having more than 10 million hits. He has also given the self-portraits of Vincent Van Gogh the same treatment.
It’s a short piece and it’s interesting to see how the familiar views of Van Gogh relate to one another and how his appearance or, at least, his perception of it, changed through the years. His state of mind is evident in each piece, with some showing a vibrant, seemingly healthy man and others showing the more tortured Van Gogh that we have come to know.
It’s an interesting little piece, coming in at under a minute. Give a look…
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I enjoyed this, as well as the Women in Art piece. Apparently the rock I live under is larger than I realized. Ten million youtube hits, and I’d never heard of it, or Mr. Johnson.
Well, at least that’s been rectified.
You have plenty of company under that rock. When I first heard of the *Women In Art* video, it already had over 9 million hits.
Glad you enjoyed both.
In addition to these two videos, Mr. Johnson also produced “Self Portraits: 500 Years of Male Self Portraits in Western Art”. The YouTube site lists the artists and identifies the musical accompaniment.
The music that accompanies “Van Gogh” is Bach’s Invention #4 in D Minor.
Thanks, Al. I saw that video as well. Nice work from Johnson in assembling such work into a cohesive video.