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Poetic Text Portraits


Austria-based artist Anatol Knotek is a visual poetry specialist. His expert talents in the arts transcend your average painting or illustration. Knotek incorporates the art of the written word into his creations. In fact, his text portraits are an amalgamation of scribbles and handwritten text.

Often working with a permanent marker on canvas, the poetry artist utilizes the boldness of the writing tool against the blank, matte white of his subjects' faces. Knotek uses words that hold some modicum of value to each figure's visage, whether they are well-known figures in life or simply a woman drawn in blue. When looked upon with a fine magnifying glass, one can see Bob Dylan's own lyrics “We live in a political world” scrawled out into the background of his portrait amongst a sea of words.









Anatol Knotek website
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Pinar Noorata is the Managing Editor at My Modern Met. She is a writer, editor, and content creator based in Brooklyn, NY. She earned her BA in Film and Media Studies from CUNY Hunter College and is an alumni of the Center for Arts Education’s Career Development Program in NYC. She has worked at major TV, film, and publishing companies as well as other independent media businesses. When she isn’t writing, editing, or creating videos herself, Pinar enjoys watching movies, reading, crafting, drawing, and volunteering at her local animal shelter.
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