I came across this amazing Italian artist on the web. As a student who is extremely interested in portraiture, the way Pamela Campagna constructed her portraits really intrigued me. Also, it reminded me of a fellow peer, Fang Ni’s style of making art. I remember Fang Ni also had such an idea in using nails and styrofoam boards to create the human face. It was very interesting to see this idea in a full-time professional artist!
Analysing the techniques employed by the artist, Pamela Campagna while creating the face using spools and spools of thread, I realized the time and effort put in by another artist again. She had created the portrait by putting nails into a wooden board and then using thread to create figurative elements of the face and body. She used various colors of string to suggest highlights and shadows on the face i.e. Black and Grey string and she crossed the strings continuously to create geometric patterns that in turn create the textures of the respective features of the face. For example, in areas whereby the features are more defined like the eyebrows, she would cross the string more often, and thus, the eyebrows would be darker in colour in comparison to other features on the face.
Her realistic depiction of her subject matter in the form of an abstract Cubist way of presentation (using strings to create lines and jagged shapes) demonstrates her ability to create art in the most creative ways possible which are extremely admirable. The establishment of the face of her subject matters in proportionate measurements also show that she most likely (I think) had previously studied and researched a fair bit on the facial anatomy of humans (just like Leonardo Da Vinci who in his case did study a lot on human anatomy). By the way, both of them were Italian!
Her dedication and commitment to her works is commendable. Beautiful pieces of work. A true Italian indeed.
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