Video: Portraits of women by Chris Lewis: love embodied in visible form
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
If you consider yourself a fan and connoisseur of the art of portraiture, then you will surely enjoy the intriguing and dreamy work of Kris Lewis. His ability to capture the elusive gestures and facial expressions of his models to convey their true state of mind is simply amazing. After all, if you just have a glimpse of one of his heroines - and you already know exactly what she thinks and what she feels.
Chris claims that when he begins to paint, the subject of his work is completely revealed to him - physically, emotionally and spiritually. "Each brush stroke speaks to the next stroke, maintaining a dialogue, linking my drawing and me, as if we met for the first time."
Chris Lewis considers art to be a visual embodiment of love and argues that paintings can be painted in any mood, a prerequisite is only the creator's love for his characters.
Lewis, who grew up among six siblings, mostly paints single female figures. He believes that all people have an intuitive ability to understand the body language and facial expressions of others. Drawing his heroines in solitude, he leaves them and the viewer alone with each other, thus initiating a kind of dialogue between them.
“There is nothing in the whole world that we understand better than the strong but subtle expressions on our faces and the gestures of our hands,” says Chris Lewis. - I like to use these elements to tell the story of a fictional character in a fictional environment that reflects the real world with its various difficulties. I mostly depict only one person in the picture, so that the viewer feels the connection with the heroine that I felt when painting the portrait."
Chris Lewis is an artist from Los Angeles. His work is in galleries around the world, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Miami, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Chris contributed to the set designs for Fergie's video for "Fergalicious" and was used on the cover art for Will. I. Am's solo album from Black Eyed Peas.
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