![Paul Beliveau - Vanitas (Splash) [2015]](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1656/24847679230_042222499e_o.png)
What does Marilyn Monroe have in common with Albert Einstein; Elvis Presley with Mao Zedong, or Federico Fellini with Tintin (the Belgian cartoon character)? Not much at a glance - but in fact they all have something in common with each other: they have been tainted, that is in the sense to say painted, by one very special Canadian brush. Indeed, they all appear in the paintings by Paul Beliveau, a Canadian artist whose exclusive focus in art is to paint books, book spines especially, some from his own book collection, but most from his own extensive library of imagination.
[Plus One Gallery, London - Acrylic on Canvas, 122 × 122 cm]