The face of Dora Maar, the Surrealist photographer and tormented muse of Pablo Picasso, consists of an iron and wood bookcase. A pink plastic sieve nested in a pink plastic bowl lends depth and color to her cheek, and her trademark red fingernails are a toy fish and four silk rose petals.
What looks like a chaotic collection of items thrown together by someone who hoards plastic is actually a three-dimensional rendering of “The Portrait of Dora Maar,” the 1937 oil painting by Pablo Picasso, the brilliant artist and Dora Maar's cruel lover. Bernard Pras, a French master of anamorphic art, is known for turning pills, plastic utensils, paper, road signs and more into unique representations of famous images, such as Vincent Van Gogh’s “Auto-portrait” and “Uncle Sam Needs You.”