HOLLY BOLLY TOLLY- ARTISTIC SKILLS OF CELEBRITIES by Snigdha Chakraborty

 

Celebrities are always looking for more ways to express their creativity. We can find musicians who are passionate about acting while some great actors try their hand at singing. Likewise, you can find great artists hidden among these superstars. Let's not waste any more time and go ahead with the knowledge of such celebrities and their talents.

Famous American actor Sylvester Stallone is a great artist as well as a great actor and director. His expressive works of art are characterized by a bold use of color and cryptic messages. For some of his characters, like Rocky, the actor would first paint how he introduced himself before impersonating them on screen. "Words are very difficult and sometimes unforgiving. So if i could see what Rocky was like, maybe i could write about him," says Stallone.Sylvester.

         Stallone takes part in Art Basel in 2009, where he exhibits his pictures, source- AP photo/keystone,arno balzarini

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Famed Jim Carrey, best known for his comedic roles, is truly talented at creating art, from paintings and sculpture to politically charged puppets and cartoons. Jim Carrey's cartoons have a political theme and are deplorable

In his captivating six-minute documentary, Jim Carrey: I Needed Color, the actor describes his relationship with art. "I don't know what painting teaches me," he says, "I know that it only frees me; free from the future, free from the past, free from regrets, free from worries." Here is the documentation link for Needed Color. You can see how the art inspired him to keep going.  https://vimeo.com/226379658

Oscar-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen is a true Renaissance man. The star of "The Lord of the Rings" has also been a poet, musician, painter and photographer since his youth.His abstract paintings, often containing fragments of his poetry, have been shown in galleries around the world and appear in the film "A Perfect Murder" (in which he starred)

                               A page from his book "Horse is good" showing some of his works, source-wikimedia

 In addition to being an actor and leader of a rock band, Johnny Depp is also an accomplished painter. Johny Deep definitely says a lot about his talent. Here are some paintings of his that you will fall in love with.

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Painting that he had been preparing for over 14 years in 2006, the actor shared the painting with a poignant message on his personal Instagram ID, where he talked about how this limitation helped him think about the unfinished painting and decided to finish it. Here you can see his painting and the beautiful message he shared https://www.instagram.com/p/CAgTqe2JOpn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Some of our famous Bollywood and tollywood stars are great painters too.

We have Sonakshi Sinha who recently did an art exhibition with about 30 paintings of her. In her free time, the actress spends a lot painting and wants to show her "colorful" side. 

                               

She also did a small photo shoot of her paintings to show off her colorful artistic side. 

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The actor and singer is a great painter and as a teenager Zafar Ali sold charcoal portraits in a hotel lobby for R500 each to fund his music albums. “When I started working with music, I stopped painting. I picked up the brush in 2010 after seven years when my father asked me to attend a national exhibition in Lahore organized by the Faculty of Art and Design Alumni Association for the Rehabilitation of Craftsmen Wrecked by the Devastating Floods were affected, "says Zafar.. 

                     Zafar also painted Aditi Rao Hydari during the promotion for his film 'London, Paris, New York' (2012),

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Salman Khan, the bhai of Bollywood is also a great artist.He paints abstract, religious pictures, couples and even his dogs, which he essentially inherited from his mother Salma. Even the late MF Husain recognized Salman Khan's painting skills. He often paints religious subjects supported by his own belief in the "oneness of the gods".

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salman khan's top 15 breathtaking paintings

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 Famous Tollywood actress Nusrat Jahan is also a great painter. The Bengali diva recently used her Instagram account to share a series of candid photos of herself demonstrating her painting skills. Nusrat shared the pictures with his followers and wrote, "Let's paint some peace." Nusrat posed next to his ship in a black T-shirt and pants.