Updated July 05, 2017 17:31:07

A giant portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin has appeared in a field in Castagnaro, near the northern Italian city of Verona.

Alongside was the caption "G20 2017" and the signature of Italian land-artist Dario Gambarin.

Gambarin used a tractor to create the 135-metre-wide picture just a few days ahead of the G20 summit, to be held in Hamburg on July 7 and 8.

Gambarin said he does not measure a field before starting his work, but can create perfectly dimensioned giant images with just an innate sense of proportion and the ability to drive a tractor.

The sheer scale of his pictures mean they can only be properly viewed from above.

Because Gambarin deletes his works after a few days so that the field can be cultivated as usual, his works are always created between the harvest of the crop and the sowing of seed for the next one.

AP

Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, visual-art, italy, germany, russian-federation

First posted July 05, 2017 17:21:35