Video: Cunning and frightening paintings by the French artist Ciou. Scary cute art
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Pictures of a young French artist, known in the creative environment as Ciou, could be called scary, terrible and frightening … If they were not so cute and kawaii, even despite the grins, sharp teeth, skulls and skeletons depicted on the canvas. In fact, the artist is not at all eager to frighten those who will view her painting. All this is due to the peculiar influence on the girl's work of her hobbies: taxidermy, tattoo art, collecting animal skeletons, primitive art, Japanese culture and modernism. The artist is originally from Toulouse, but has long lived and worked in New York, where her first major exhibition of works took place in 2004, and 5 years later her first book of illustrations, "Chat Siamois", was published. The illustrations are, frankly, not for everybody. A lover of dark, but harmless plots, wild characters, as if raised by wolves in the forest, and some kind of outrageous moods. All this is enough in Ciou's work.
Someone will probably say that Ciou's paintings are similar to Alice's alternative adventures in Wonderland, where Alice is the same little strange girl, and on the way she meets all the same curiosities, riddles, nonsense and strange creatures, only this time Wonderland resembles Purgatory, and Alice and her friends are guests from the underworld. The French artist prefers mystical subjects, acrylic paints and ink as tools for painting, and she creates the background for her paintings from pages from old newspapers, reference books, telephone books and dictionaries.
Among the hobbies of Ciou, in addition to the above, also include carnivals, merry parties, fairy tales, vintage toys, as well as, in contrast, gothic music and cemeteries. You can get acquainted with the strange work of the young artist on her website.
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