Single Line Drawing: Mona Lisa And Other Masterpieces Recreated By Artist Chan Whee Chong (VIDEO) (PHOTOS)

With one spiral line, Chan Hwee Chong has recreated a series of drawings of the world's most famous masterpiece paintings.

From Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portrait, the Hamburg based Singaporean artist circles his way to a final fingerprint-like drawing in this incredible YouTube video.

Commissioned by penmaker Faber Castell, the artist doesn't just stop at that da Vinci and Van Gogh. The Daily Mail reports he's also produced a breathtaking piece of Johannes Vermeer's 'Girl With A Pearl Earring'.

The 33-year-old artist said he took several months to produce these works after having to start over each time he made a mistake, notes Weird Asia News.

Watch Chan Hwee Chong not even lift his pen along with the artist's final drawings below.

Comments

[cyndavis122]

03:42 PM on 11/24/2011

Reminds my of an X-Files episode where a kid did this with 1 & 0. Interesting!

[dickn2000b]

03:26 PM on 11/24/2011

I see from the comments I'm outvoted. How could anyone actually like this trash? How could anyone call it art? At least the classic art of DaVinci? These perverted line drawings are a plagairized insult to the master artist.

[hman570]

02:58 PM on 11/24/2011

What a gift this man has!! Keep it up!!

[bmitche]

01:01 PM on 11/24/2011

He was able to capture that Mona Lisa mystique. Good job !

[pllc]

12:13 PM on 11/24/2011

Unbelievable and Mr. Chong may deserve recognition for his work someday. I hope he does by creating topics of his own making into his innovative art form, whatever he calls it. Not since Pointilism and Cubism has the art world witness another innovation like this one.

[Carla Rae H]

11:05 AM on 11/24/2011

I don't know that I'd consider it art, but that guy has an incredible gift of memory and dexterity and an amazing ability to recreate images in a very unusual way.

[flxdcatbruce]

02:26 PM on 11/24/2011

....recreating images in a very unusual way....that is art.

[Carla Rae H]

03:41 PM on 11/24/2011

Point taken.

[MariaMaria]

03:08 PM on 11/24/2011

I'd call it ART......

[Carla Rae H]

03:42 PM on 11/24/2011

That is what is so great about this subject. Not everyone enjoys the same things or considers the same things to be art. It really is a very personal thing. :o)

[frankieboy26]

10:20 AM on 11/24/2011

It's interesting. It's unique. It's a get-a-load-of-that moment. It's a catchy little trick. But it's not art.

[Laurence Lance]

02:40 PM on 11/24/2011

Why is it not art? Would it make a difference if the used mutiple pencils to create the same effect? I see structure and shading and a very sensitive touch all necessary no matter what tools he used. I vote ART.

[MariaMaria]

03:08 PM on 11/24/2011

It's Art....

[topspin360]

10:04 AM on 11/24/2011

He will have to create his own art,not a reproduction of others.I like it though,it is unique and is art.

[Itofa]

09:59 AM on 11/24/2011

I bet no one else can "reproduce" these paintings the way he does. That's art, whether you like it or not.

[Al Schrader]

09:55 AM on 11/24/2011

An interesting circular kinda thing. But, I actually can paint like Leonardo Da Vinci.
Who is Mona ? It's Leo's mom.....Alfred-

[360Dunk]

09:26 AM on 11/24/2011

I've seen Mona Lisa at the Louvre and let me tell you, she's not the hottie everyone makes her out to be. Her face suggests a carb-heavy diet and little exercise. The bags under her eyes would be charged extra by some airlines. The pasty white skin suggests too many afternoons inside the windowless castle. Don't even get me started on her sagging breasts and pear-shaped figure which the original painting wisely avoided. Other than that, she's fine.

[topspin360]

10:03 AM on 11/24/2011

She still has the biggest line of people to see her every day.

[WilmaJune]

10:05 AM on 11/24/2011

Mona Lisa was painted in the early 1500's and stood the test of time through the centuries. To mock it shows lack of character.

[360Dunk]

10:21 AM on 11/24/2011

Blasphemy! How dare anyone poke fun of something so sacred as a centuries-old painting of a homely woman.

[360Dunk]

10:33 AM on 11/24/2011

Wilma Wilma Wilma....stealing from a neighbor or murdering a relative shows lack of character. Giving an honest opinion on art shows individuality and the ability to critique fairly, despite what the masses think.

I think you are confused about the meaning of character. If I 'mocked' the painting, I did so because it truly is not all that interesting a piece of art to me. For you to become offended by my opinion is laughable. Thank you for the chuckle.

[Edvardo]

08:59 AM on 11/24/2011

Savant skills? Yes.

Art? No.

[RyanRugbyTighthead]

07:57 PM on 11/21/2011

I like the one of Scarlett Johansson. Just kidding. Very cool.

[theroundearth]

07:00 PM on 11/21/2011

s-p-a-m

[baseface]

03:40 PM on 11/20/2011

thats really cool