GIVEAWAY CLOSED ✨What makes a piece of art iconic? The works of the italian artist @picchiarellopixelart, colorful mosaics created with handcrafted & hand-painted wooden blocks, are born with the intention of giving an answer to this question. Growing up in a family with passions for both art and music, Antonio was influenced by these two worlds, from which he borrowed some concepts then poured and combined in his works. From the world of art, the most important influence to him is due to Marcel Duchamp: his creed recited "It is the observer who completes the work” inspiring him to create something that requires the active involvement of the viewer, and it is from the admiration for Duchamp's provocative "Mona Lisa" that comes the desire to reinterpret the masterpieces of the past in a fresh key. From the world of music he borrows the key concept of his works: the process of transforming an analog audio track into a compressed digital mp3, which basically consists in eliminating some notes from the original track, continuing to "cut” within which the original song is still perfectly recognizable, the artist sensed the parallelism of this concept with that of Pixel Art, thus taking a wooden acoustic panel as an inspiration for his medium. The result is something suspended halfway between sculpture and painting: as the viewer moves away from the work, the colored wooden blocks magically come to life revealing some of the most iconic and famous paintings in the history of art, giving them a new youth in a contemporary key. As an attempt to answer the initial question: is it not the immediate recognizability of a work that makes it iconic? And what would happen if you tried to deconstruct the image of a famous work? Would its crystallization in the collective imagination be enough to allow the viewer's gaze to recreate it starting from fragmentary visual information? For your chance to win this reimagined Vermeer “Girl with a Pearl Earrings” by @picchiarellopixelart; ✨FOLLOW me @home_ec_op and @picchiarellopixelart ✨TAG as many friends as you’d like in separate comments below ✨SHARE in your stories! Winner announced one week from today. US only