Brazilian Artist Re-creates Pieces With Plastic Bags

Without using a single drop of paint, Brazilian artist Eduardo Srur has been able to reproduce works by renowned masters.

For his latest exhibition, Eduardo copied Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet and Warhol using shreds of plastic bags from streets and rivers. He said, his work served to draw attention to pollution caused by the accumulation of plastic waste and will remain for centuries in the history of mankind, just like the plastic that we are dumping in nature.

The artist has long worked to raise awareness about the environment, creating enormous installations in public spaces around Sao Paulo, often along the city’s heavily polluted rivers.

The lockdown allowed Srur to returned to the studio, where he swapped paint brushes for tweezers, working colored plastic through holes in a board to form images.

He said “Plastic dominates everything and everyone today, so in this series I create artwork that has no paint or glue, just bits of plastic bags that end up making the image you see,”