沒有眼睛的畫家：伊斯里夫?阿馬甘 （視頻）
Esref Armagan is a very unusual Turkish painter. His artwork has been exhibited in Turkey and abroad. Hanging in his apartment in Turkey is a framed thank you letter from Bill Clinton, an old American president, because Esref had painted his portrait.
Above is Bill Clinton's portrait by Esref
Esref is a blind painter, born without eyes. He has never been able to see nor understand colors as normal people do. He has never been able to see sunset a flowering meadow in the Spring.
Specialists that have met him have been confused by Esref's capacities. "He moves and represents space easily, his details are precise and full of visible information (color variation, shadows, light and shade effects, light reflection, contrasts and perspective)."
A painting by Esref
His 'eyes' are his hands. When he paints, he puts the colors, which are lined up in a specific order on the table, directly onto paper. To work on a picture, he needs absolute quiet. He needs to feel that he is "inside" his painting - in fact, when he is drawing a picture of the sea, he wonders if he should wear a life jacket so as not to drown!
In the video above, scientists from Harvard University discover that Esref can see, in his mind, that objects that are farther away from him appear smaller, even though he has never seen anything in his entire life.
The man himself, Esref Armagan
阿馬甘兒時(shí)家貧，從未受過正式的學(xué)校教育。不過，他小時(shí)候就喜歡用鉛筆在紙上涂鴉，十八歲時(shí)，他開始用手指蘸著油漆在紙上或帆布上作畫，現(xiàn)在，他更愛用速干的油彩繪畫。阿馬甘畫畫時(shí)要使用一個(gè)特制的橡膠板，協(xié)助他用指尖感受他所畫的每一筆線條；他一只手握著鉛筆，另一只手則在畫布上摸索鉛筆畫過的線條，第二只手就像是他的“眼睛”一樣。
阿馬甘作畫時(shí)需要絕對的寧靜氛圍，讓自己完全沉浸、融入到圖畫中。他說，當(dāng)他畫大海的圖畫時(shí)，他總是懷疑自己是否應(yīng)該穿救生衣，以免“溺死”在自己想像的汪洋中。
Another painting by Esref
