Phil Hansen (born 1979) is a self-taught American artist.
Biography
During high school, Hansen's obsession with pointillism resulted in permanent nerve damage. Out of frustration, Hansen left art and art school, but, after speaking to his neurologist, decided to explore other forms of art, both two- and three-dimensional.
Hansen dropped out of college after two terms, and his only formal art education is from high school.
Career
Hansen's breakthrough piece was a
time-lapse
Time-lapse photography is a technique in which the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than the frequency used to view the sequence. When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus ...
video of a two-day project called ''Influence''. He painted thirty pictures on his torso, one over the other, each picture representing an influence in his life. After it was completed, he peeled the layer off and cut a
silhouette
A silhouette ( , ) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the silhou ...
of his own profile. The uploaded video was streamed over a million times on the Internet, with process and final piece clearly revealed.
Grammy Awards
Hansen was chosen to be the official Artist for 51st annual
Grammy Awards held on February 8, 2009 8 pm ET.
References
External links
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Phil Hansen's Myspace user page*
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1979 births
Living people
21st-century American artists
Artists from Minneapolis