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It took Michelangelo four years to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508-1512), but in Waterloo, Iowa, graffiti artist Paco Rosic managed to repeat the feat in only four months - using spray paint to depict a 1/2 scale version of the celebrated frescoes on the ceiling of a building his family has converted into a restaurant.
Paco was born in Sarajevo, but his family fled the Bosnian War in 1991, settling first in Germany where the he became a graffiti artist as a teenager. Six years later, the Rosen family immigrated to the United States and Paco decided to take his tagging skills to a new level.
Having first seen the Sistine Chapel in a book when he was six years old, Paco had always been obsessed with the work of Michelangelo. Thus, he decided to make it his mission to replicate the Renaissance masterpiece in his own medium of spray paint.
In full support of his dream, Paco’s parents used their life’s savings to purchase an 1870s building that was once an antique store. But, the shop’s ceiling wasn’t curved like the vault in the Sistine Chapel, so the family hired workers to tear it down and create a plaster ceiling that, at its highest point, is gently arched 14 feet above the floor. Paco ended up with 2,511 square feet of blank space.
Before starting the project, Paco traveled to Rome to study Michelangelo’s work up-close and in person. He spent four days sketching in the Sistine Chapel before heading back to Iowa to commence work.
For various reasons, Paco’s reproduction is not exactly like Michelangelo’s ceiling. He’s replicated the frescoes at a smaller scale and the space constraint has forced him to leave out some of the intricate details, for example, the eyes and cheekbones of the figures are made with broad lines of paint instead of tiny, delicate brushstrokes. As well, the medium of spray paint means that figures are even more vibrantly colored than they are in Michelangelo’s original. Exactly how much spray paint does it take to complete such a project? Paco estimates that he used 2000 cans of Krylon paint at a cost of about $9000.
taken from EternallyCool.net
