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Tortilla paintings exhibition

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-03-30 09:56

Detail from artist Joe Bravo's portrait of Frida Kahlo is shown next to the bare tortilla canvas on one of his tortilla paintings being exhibited at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Los Angeles, March 29, 2007. Bravo first started the acrylic paintings on tortillas when he was in college and couldn't afford canvases. The exhibit has broken the gallery's attendance records and the paintings are selling for as much as $1,800 each. [Reuters]