Israeli illustrator Noma Bar

sraeli illustrator Noma Bar depicts the faces of the famous using only a few lines, colours and drawn objects. But the key to the success of the London-based artist’s work is how the objects he assembles to create each face immediately relate to the particular person in question: evoking their personality, reputation or, even, their ideology.




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Hence two twisting missiles imply the familiar specs of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il



Bar throws in a Vladimir Putin, made solely from a test-tube pouring chemicals into an opened hand.

Bar’s understanding of pictograms, as well as his wickedly satirical eye, mark him out as one of this century’s most exciting charicaturists.