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Matt Held Paints Your Facebook Profile Picture (If You’re Friends)


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Matt Held Paints Your Facebook Profile Picture (If You’re Friends)
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Matt Held is an artist who paints people’s Facebook profile pictures on request. All you do if you want an original painting of yourself is add him as a friend so he can access your profile portfolio and then he might paint you.

What a creative idea to get easy access to free profile pictures via Facebook… providing you give him your consent, of course. I think the pictures are brilliant. Let’s face it, people do upload a lot of great shots of themselves. It would be hilarious to view an exhibition of a whole series of these. The online community turned into a piece of art. Beautiful.

To be considered for a possible portrait, all you have to do is join the Facebook group and add Matt Held as your friend. The artist himself aims at collecting a series of 200 paintings, so be quick if you want to be part of the community of mirrored self-portraits.

Take a collection of these portraits and put them into the context of a gallery space or like setting, and you see a community of individuals—their likeness elevated and memorialized like the original commissioners of portrait painting; the rich and powerful—displayed as a portrait's original intent: expression of an individuals' character and moral quality. (portraitpainted.blogspot)

References:  portraitpainted.blogspot, urlesque

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TrendHead on Mar 3, 09  594 Trends   140 Comments
Wouldn't it be cool if we all got one made? I am up for it.
TrendHead on Mar 3, 09  594 Trends   140 Comments 0
Favorited by Bianca Bartz on Mar 3, 09
Bianca Bartz on Mar 3, 09  4,530 Trends   3,575 Comments
I love your idea of the art gallery TrendHead! And yes, it would be fab if we all got one made by him!
Bianca Bartz on Mar 3, 09  4,530 Trends   3,575 Comments 0
Ayman Helweh on Mar 3, 09  2,236 Trends   2,641 Comments
Ermmm, lets not dream THAT big. The images of our TH workspaces were taken months ago and we are yet to see action... Man, even a flickr group or a simple blog would do!
Ayman Helweh on Mar 3, 09  2,236 Trends   2,641 Comments 0
Jeremy Gutsche on Mar 3, 09  1,659 Trends   2,621 Comments
@Ayman, we've been saving the pictures for the launch of our first real office, which is a big deal for us...
Jeremy Gutsche on Mar 3, 09  1,659 Trends   2,621 Comments 0
Ayman Helweh on Mar 3, 09  2,236 Trends   2,641 Comments
Ah, I see, in that case its understandable. But you better make it grand, my buddy Trendo has been bugging the hell out of me about seeing what happened to his pic, no pressures!
Ayman Helweh on Mar 3, 09  2,236 Trends   2,641 Comments 0
Favorited by Steve F on Mar 18, 09
Favorited by WASP WONG on Mar 23, 09


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