Joongwon jeong biography of william

28 July , | Updated: 29 July ,

This artist is helping the world find a deeper connection with our most beloved works of art.

Artist Joongwon Jeong has been drawing highly realistic portraits of famous figures from the past, and from legend and myth.

Vincent Van Gogh, Homer and Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam have all been the subject of Jeong’s gaze.

His aim is to draw our most beloved works of art in a new light, helping people to find a new relationship with them.

In the lifelike new portraits, all drawn with acrylic paints, Venus de Milo has a smattering of pimples, God’s hair is lusciously wavy, and chucking Darwin’s beard is just deliciously tempting.

There’s also an awkward sense of unease that comes with staring deep into Sigmund Freud’s eyes.

“I think drawing is the process of conveying that vivid gaze to the viewer by looking at the object unfamiliarly and expressing it in my own l