Brad Pitt has been spotted looking shockingly thin and almost bony in Los Angeles. Speculations have arisen whether this tremendous weight loss is because of the stress following Angelina Jolie split or for a new movie.

According to Mail Online, Brad Pitt has been away from public eye most of the time since his split from Angelina Jolie. He has been spending most of his time at a Los Angeles art studio.

The only time he made a brief public appearance is during the Golden Globes back in January. Brad Pitt even skipped the Oscars, despite being one of the producers of Best Picture winner "Moonlight",  because he was busy working on a sculpture.  

Brad Pitt has been creating a sculpture under the mentorship of his friend, British artist Thomas Houseago. Sources revealed that the actor has been working for as long as 15 hours a day.

"He (Brad Pitt) spends all night working on his art and listening to emotional songs," Mail Online quoted a source. "Everybody knows it's related to what's going on with him personally, but nobody says anything."

The source added that Brad Pitt is quite and humble person. Art has become his new distraction to take his mind off everything else. 

Working on the art project is helping the "Allied" actor to concentrate on something. Brad Pitt would rather spend his time sculpting that than go out partying.

In recent pictures, he donned a black jacket over casual white T-shirt and paired it with blue jeans, boots, and sunglasses. The actor looked gaunt and a shadow of his formal muscular self.  

More on the actor, as per Mirror, the trailer for Brad Pitt's upcoming movie "War Machine" is out now. The Netflix movie will come out on 26 May this year.

Brad Pitt will play the role of army man General Glenn McMahon. The movie plot is based on the Afghanistan war and stars Tilda Swinton, Topher Grace, Sir Ben Kingsley, Anthony Michael Hall and Will Poulter.