Gallery: Original Portraits of Cultural Icons by Noma Bar

We’re always on the lookout for cool pop-culture related visual art, so we can’t thank the good folks at Brain Pickings enough for drawing our attention to Israeli artist Noma Bar and his book Guess Who: The Many Faces of Noma Bar. This 2007 volume collects 50 of Bar’s minimalist vector portraits of iconic figures from the world of film, science, literature, politics, music, and more. We’ve picked out ten of our favorites from the book; check ‘em out after the jump.

Bar’s portraits are primarily of single figures, though he did work up this ingenious image of Pulp Fiction‘s John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson by seizing on their iconic hairstyle and the guns that they wield throughout the picture.

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Um. Forget that comment. Erase it. It doesn't exist.

Seems this gallery is ripped off from one that ran recently on Brain Pickings. Not even a hat tip, Flavorwire? http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/07/28/noma-bar-guess-who/

These are great--love the harry potter one--but they're all men. What's up with that?

That looks nothing like Bill Murray!

Olly Moss? Oh, the star wars bloke... well, I'd say he's no Al Hirschfeld, rather than some star wars plonker.

Eh, he's no Olly Moss. And are the captions really necessary?