Video: Melting Portraits by Chrissy Enliker
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In creating her portraits, artist Chrissy Angliker uses a rather interesting technique. To help brushes and paints, the girl also calls on the force of gravity, thus achieving an original and unusual effect.
The paintings that Chrissy Enliker creates are very recognizable due to their unusual technique. Despite the large number of smudges, the images do not appear dirty or illegible: on the contrary, the dripping paint produces an interesting effect that Chrissy repeats over and over again in her portraits. Although all of her paintings are created in the same style, they do not appear to be the same. The artist adds variety by varying the colors of the paints, depicting different turns of the head and making the facial features in the portraits more realistic, then bringing them closer to caricatures. In some works, dripping drops of paint lead to a serious and dramatic effect, while in other drawings it creates a comic mood.
When creating this series of works, the artist focuses on the search for a balance between the controlled and the uncontrolled. Each of our conscious intentions is necessarily followed by a kind of "drip" that influences and changes it, because life always makes its own adjustments to our plans. In the paintings of Chrissy Enliker, you can see the unification of opposites: beauty and ugliness, joy and sadness, order and chaos.
Although the dripping paint effect is used primarily in watercolors, Chrissy paints with acrylics and oils. Flowing down the canvas, her works seem to melt under the gaze of the audience. Chrissy Enliker was born in Zurich but currently lives and works in New York.
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