A mysterious anonymous artist
has plastered streets in Florence and Rome with portraits of
Dante Alighieri, Botticelli's Venus, Pablo Picasso and even
Jesus Christ wearing scuba divers' masks on faces as part of a
series entitled "Art can swim."
The artist, who identifies himself only as "Blub" to
protect his anonymity, recently added the late Latin American
writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez to his series, naturally also
depicted in a diver's mask.
Blub also has posted up his esoteric portraits in Rome,
including one of Pope Francis.
He says he started painting in Spain.
"I started by chance, even if for me there is no such thing
as coincidence," he said.
"Then I continued because the impact on people inspired me
to go on...I like it when people ask me to put up a print where
it has been torn down, or when they themselves stick it back up
with sellotape".
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