Video: Almost like a zombie. Careless aggression of male portraits by Andrew Salgado
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Contemporary painting is divided into several categories: see and admire, see and forget, see and be horrified, and the last category is to be glad that I did not see. And it's hard to say to which of the above categories the non-standard chaotic painting of a Canadian artist belongs Andrew Salgado … He works on aggressive male portraits in a special, sloppy technique. And you need to be a sincere admirer of non-standard to hang such a portrait in your apartment. Honestly, those depicted in the paintings resemble zombies: crazy eyes, torn faces, smudges (blood?), Missing body parts … And you have to trust the author that he draws ordinary people, not the living dead. The artist himself is sure that careless strokes on the canvas give the men depicted in the paintings masculinity, and the rich color range is responsible for the emotional component of his work. In particular, for aggressiveness.
In addition to all this, the portraits of Andrew Salgado are interesting in that he does not paint them from living models, and does not even come up with them from scratch. He takes historical portraits of men as prototypes, selecting the most characteristic and textured ones in books, newspapers and magazines. And then he prepares these portraits in his favorite careless and tattered technique, which, in a peculiar, but very favorable way, distinguishes his paintings from hundreds of others.
The young artist was literally born with a brush in his hands, and therefore received an education corresponding to his vocation, first at London's Chelsea College of Art, and then continued it in Vancouver, at the University of British Columbia. Today, Andrew Salgado lives and works in London, but his kind of carelessly aggressive paintings like to show at their exhibitions not only London galleries of modern art, but also Berlin, Sydney, Oslo, Toronto and Vancouver, Venezuela, Nigeria and Thailand.
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