The art is in the details: Mind-bending portrait composed of 200,000 ants
Art has no limits. And it shows the work done by Chris Trueman, a California painter who rose to fame after making a portrait called “Self-Portrait with a Gun” (Self-Portrait with a Gun) using 200,000 ants.
Trueman based his portrait on an old photo, a yellowed reminder of his childhood. To implement his idea the artist reshaped image in the photograph using ants. Contrary to general opinion, it cost him a lot to get a hold of them. The project was rather expensive because each order of 40,000 ants cost him $ 500 but the investment proved to be worth it when Trueman finished the portrait with the image of her brother dressed as a cowboy holding in his hand the 22 calibre rifle his father and was able to ask for 35,000 dollars for the completed painting.
The painter admits that having to kill the ants disturbed the painter, and he took a few years to complete it. The artist acknowledged that killing the ants was hard, and painting with them was harder: he resorted to using tweezers and resin paint for the picture to support the ants and give it that characteristic old photograph glow…
During the project, Trueman had doubts about killing ants but wanted to continue painting so as to reach his goal, thinking that the first batch that he killed should not have to die in vain.
People have shown a lot of interest in buying his work after it was hung in a San Diego gallery. The painter and was happy that the portrait made it out of his studio for and is now being seen and enjoyed by visitors to the gallery.
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