The Author
“The challenge of mastering new techniques, expressions, and tools, whether analogue or digital, has always been the motivating factor behind my work”
FEAS
Felipe Souza (aka FEAS) has been a graphic designer and visual artist for over 40 years. Throughout his professional career, he has worked on a diverse range of projects and has had the opportunity to experiment with and employ a wide range of techniques, tools, and equipment to carry out his projects and give shape to his ideas.
He was strongly influenced by his father, a hyper-realist painter now deceased, with whom he worked in his studio for over two years. During this period he devoted himself exclusively to learning classical painting techniques, with a focus on realistic art. While working with paints and brushes, he became familiar with the most varied digital tools, starting to use his knowledge both in the production of graphic design projects and also working as an illustrator for magazines and publications.
When imagining the challenge of creating such a vast collection of Mona Lisa variations, Felipe reasoned that this exploration would be incomplete unless he created a Mona Lisa himself using traditional techniques and materials such as paper, canvas, pencils, paints, and brushes, in a completely N.I. (Natural Intelligence) production.
That is why the initiative is called 1001 Mona Lisas. The plan is to construct 1,000 AI-generated versions and one personally created by himself.
