Portrait of Serge Reggiani
1969
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1969
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Portrait of Serge Reggiani is a 1969 by Jaume Estapà, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows Serge Reggiani’s face made entirely of M, O, X and * symbols. Jaume Estapà built it in 1969 with no brush or paint—just typed characters. Back then printers couldn’t draw pictures, so artists used keyboard symbols instead. Estapà layered the same four keys over and over to shade the face. Check out more classic ASCII art at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A computer-generated portrait of Serge Reggiani, created in 1969 by Jaume Estapà, consists exclusively of the characters M, O, X, and *. Printed on paper with light grey stripes characteristic of early computer printing, the work employs overprinting to define tonal variations and was produced using a daisy wheel printer.
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Jaume Estapà made expressive prints of well-known faces in the late 1960s. His 1968 portrait of Catherine Sauvage catches the French singer’s sharp gaze, while his 1969 portrait of Serge Reggiani shows the actor’s quiet…
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