Video: Dark art. "Dark Art" by illustrator Erlend Mork
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Norwegian artist, photographer, illustrator Erlend Mork is a master of frankly gloomy, if not suicidal paintings. As Erlend Mork himself says about his work, he draws inspiration from an obsession with philosophy, thanks to which he sees everyday life not at all what it seems to most other people. Simply put, his paintings are an attempt to imagine what is going on in the head of a mentally ill person who is forced to live in isolation from the world. And I must say that the author was very successful …
There are many words about paintings and the philosophy of creativity, but not a word about myself. This is the policy of the young artist, who believes that his own biography is more boring than the Yellow Pages catalog. The only thing that is known about him is his age, about 26 years old, place of residence - Norway, and love for "dark art". This is how experts define this style.
By the way, it is not completely clear what the illustrations of Erlend Mork are: paintings, collages, photographs, or digital paintings using all of the above, since the author does it all equally well. But he especially loves to depict watches on his canvases.
Time is an exclusively philosophical concept, it can be both a good friend and a mortal enemy. Who is it for our author? This is still the same question …
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