Businessman Harsh Goenka’s Twitter is a mixed bag of anecdotes from the RPG chairman’s own life, interesting tidbits of information or even viral videos that he comes across. But Mr Goenka recently shared about an autistic artist from UK named Stephen Wiltshire, who drew a 18-feet long photo of the New York City skyline he drew after he saw the entire aerial view of the city skyline for 20 minutes in a helicopter. The painting was drawn at New York’s Pratt Institute of Brooklyn. The photo, which Goenka shared showed the finer details of several prominent buildings in Manhattan.
Check out the tweet below:
Stephen Wiltshire, a British artist, was flown around New York in a helicopter, and then he drew the entire city, by memory, on an 19 ft long canvas. pic.twitter.com/rU22e9BCAV— Harsh Goenka (@hvgoenka) December 17, 2021
Following Goenka’s tweet, a user provided some more information about this:
more details: he was autistic. took two weeks to draw the canvas. spent 2 or 4 hours up in the helicopter (can't remember). this was featured at JFK airport in 2014 at terminal 1.— Nas Hashmi (@nashashmi) December 17, 2021
The lengthy sketch also included iconic Manhattan buildings like Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. The Daily Mail had reported that Wiltshire drew the entire sketch with just pen and paper and the details of the skyline impressed everyone who admired the sketch.
Wiltshire has received several artistic accolades for his talents and is especially known for his ability to have something similar to a ‘photogenic memory’ as he is known to be able to draw a scene after just looking at it once. He was diagnosed with autism when he was three and didn’t speak til age five.
In 2006 he was named as a Member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his work in the art world.
Twitter users were left impressed by Wiltshire’s craft. Check out some of the comments:
Sir they see the world differently than others!!!— abhishek (@abhishe57131481) December 17, 2021
Fascinating! ✨— Paushali Sahu (@dreamzdotcom) December 17, 2021
Amazing.. unbelievable……great application of memory power than mugging text books…👍— Sujit Kumar P (@sujit_kp) December 18, 2021
This is breathtaking and spectacular 👌👌— Tarana Hussain (@hussain_tarana) December 17, 2021
What do you think of the incredible talent of Mr Wiltshire?
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