Yves Géraud has received nine gongs for his miniature work, which became something of a personal challenge for the French artist. Exploring his passion for extreme miniatures, Géraud has dedicated his time to creating miniature museums, miniature paintings, and even a miniature recreation of the Mona Lisa!
According to an interview with L'Essentiel five years ago (in the meantime Géraud has gained another three records), the artist explained that he began his work painting miniatures in the 1980s. The Frenchman is married to a Luxembourgish woman and has lived in Luxembourg for around 50 years.
The artist has even broken two records in one go - namely with his matchbox museum, which holds the record for the smallest museum and the smallest painting. In this tiny museum, Géraud not only painted and created four tiny paintings, including the smallest painting which is a painstakingly tiny 1x1mm, he also recreated ten paintings done by famous artists, namely Braque, Buffet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso, Rouault, Rousseau, and Van Gogh.
Other records held by the artist include the smallest Mona Lisa (9 x 13mm or 3,500 times smaller than the original), the smallest portrait gallery, the smallest puzzle, and the smallest table-football! As you can expect, such detailed work takes hours to lead to the minutious detail: the Mona Lisa, for instance, took 75 hours of work, and the museum and all its paintings around 200.
For more details check out the artist's website.
Thanks to commenter Ola23 for pointing us in the direction of Géraud!
