Video: Skulls are illusions. Gloomy paintings from paintings by Tom French (Tom French)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Illusion paintings, in which one image smoothly turns into another, and you yourself do not understand when you stopped seeing people in front of you, and instead you sit looking at a gloomy skull - this is the favorite theme of the young English designer Tom French … Thomas studied the art of painting in Sheffield, and recently devotes the lion's share of his work to philosophical paintings, the center of which is precisely the skull. This rare genre is called vanitas. Not every specialist succeeds in it, since for this one needs to seriously prepare mentally. But Tom French successfully copes with the task of showing the inevitability of death and the frailty of existence, combining into one whole, on the same plane, the joy of life and the gloom of the underworld.
The beautiful girls in these paintings form a deadly black skull. Delicate and at the same time gloomy, Tom French's paintings make people plunge into thought, and turn to their own imagination in order to supplement the proposed images, enhance impressions, and fill the illusion paintings with a special meaning.
For some time now, the name of graphic artist Tom French has been called one of the best contemporary artists. You can get acquainted with his works on the author's website.
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