Johnny Depp officially opened an exhibition of portraits of his authorship

Johnny Depp, the star of “Pirates of the Caribbean”, made his debut as a painter last year, and recently opened an exhibition of portraits of his authorship called “Friends and Heroes”.

In his debut, the musician and actor collected more than three million euros, a success that fueled new momentum for a new presentation of the exhibition at the British gallery Castle Fine Art.

“Friends and Heroes” is a collection portraits of famous peoplea special edition in which the artist decided to personify herself personalities who died as Bob MarleyPhoenix River, Heath Ledger and writer Hunter S Thompsonthe author of “Panic and Madness in Las Vegas”, a work that was adapted for the big screen and in which Depp starred.

Actor Heath Ledger was one of Depp’s closest friends, describing them as “loud and unruly talent”while Bob Marley greatly admired him.

Think of Marley as one of his two great prophets generation together with his good friend Bob Dylan.

According to the gallery’s website, Depp’s exhibit is “the best-selling to date,” with the portraits selling out within hours. “There was so much interest in Johnny’s artistic debut that our site crashed mesh“, they commented then.

Using photographic references, each image was reduced to a a simpler portrait and the icon of the theme, which the interpreter of “El joven manos de tijera” developed and energized with his characteristic free strokes.

In these works, for example, Depp portrays River Phoenix with the beauty of a teenage heartthrob and one a warm look while the Jamaican singer is portrayed as a dreamer, a deeply sincere man, blessed with the eyes of a prophet.

“It excites me that people want to look a little beyond my day job, if you will, exploring some of the images that I’m interested in,” said the protagonist of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” about the success of his exhibition in an interview published on the site mesh from the gallery.

The prices of the works range between 5,000 and 18,000 dollars approximately, in addition, the first part of the exhibition, with which he debuted, included portraits Keith Richards, Bob DylanElizabeth Taylor and Al Pacino.