One of
the most controversial artist of our time, Viktor Mitic paints
his artworks with semi-automatic rifles, hand-guns and shotguns.
Although
he was acquainted with firearms from the time he spent in the National Service
for the Serbian Army, in the former Yugoslavia, Viktor Mitic first
got the idea of using guns in his art, after an art critic said his art needs
to be more penetrating. Then, just before the war in Afghanistan started, he
saw a report on a military group who destroyed 2,000-year-old statues of
Buddha. ‘I wanted to use similar energy. The weapons had been around for a
number of years, but no one has used them to paint with yet. I wanted to use it
as a tool of creation, rather than of destruction’ Mitic says.
His
bullet hole paintings include a replica of Picasso’s Gurnica, as well as portraits
of popular figures the likes of JFK, Marylin Monroe, John Wayne, John Lennon
and many others.
The Bullet Hole Paintings of Viktor Mitic was originally posted at OddityCentral
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