Huge 135-meter portrait of Vladimir Putin now embellishes a wheat field in one of the North regions of Italy near Verona, TASS reports. The author is a land artist Dario Gambarin who claims himself one of the land art founders.
Gambarin has created several similar land portraits of world leaders. Among them Barack Obama, Donald Trump, anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela, head of the Roman Catholic Church Pope Francis, the Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro.
Among Gambarin creates huge peace posters and art masterpiece replicates as well. His personal exhibitions are going around Europe since 1993.
The land artist draws not just with a brush but with his tractor, a plough and other special field equipment to transform a 25,000 square meters field into a piece of art for the brief period between the harvest of one crop and the planting of the next one. Due to the scale, his artworks can be properly viewed only from the air.
Italian artist has chosen to design Vladimir Putin's portrait ahead this week’s G20 summit. Next to the sketchy image Gambarin has wrote Russian President's last name - Putin.
Russkiy Mir
