Famous artist and illustrator Federico Babina is known for his modern drawings inspired by old cubism artistic style. Developed by Pablo Picasso and George Braque in the early 1900s, cubism was a very influential visual art style that rejected inherent concepts that art should be a reflection of nature. Instead, they threw out the rule book and created new methods of stylisation and distortion to emphasize the two-dimensional nature of the canvas, reducing objects to geometric shapes. Throughout this series, Babina draws famous icons from music, cinema and painting, usually discernible from a facial characteristic. Here’s a selection of our favourites:
Pablo Picasso
Andy Warhol
Audrey Hepburn
Freddie Mercury
John Lennon
Michael Jackson
Check out Babina’s other work here.