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Portrait Series #1
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
To experiment with different technique and to enhance our illustration skills we came up with the idea of doing a portrait series. One portrait a month, different technique and style every time.
Who?
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (June 14,1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
Why?
The illustration is based on the most iconic Photo of a single person ever made, „Guerrillero Heroico“ by Alberto Korda. The photo was illustrated by noumerous artists around the world and became the icon for the 1968s student movement.
Style and technique?
The reason we choose this image as a start for our series was, that it is based on an image known by almost every person on the planet. But most of them don't know what's behind the person every one knows as „Che“. We thought it would be interesting to show some of the persons, locatons and things who made Ernesto "Che" Guevara the icon of the 20th century.
So we came up with the idea to use papercut to enhance the most well known interpretation of Alberto Kordas photo, the illustration of Jim Fitzpatrick.
WORK IN PROGRESS
