Video: 10 months of "Loneliness". Large-scale art project Solitude by Joe Fenton
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
More than 10 months, 10 hours a day and 7 days a week, artist Joe Fenton from Brooklyn did not depart from a huge, 2.4 meters high and 1.5 meters wide, sheet of paper. With a pencil, and then with a lead and paints, he helped the most beautiful to be born " To loneliness"(Solitude), which I have ever seen. Loneliness is an unwelcome and unpleasant guest in the soul of every person. And the fact that artists, poets, writers and musicians draw their inspiration from it does not mean anything. that the muse of loneliness is very strong - almost the same as that of disappointment, resentment, betrayal, melancholy … There is a version that surrealists are more willing than others to exploit these gloomy muses, however, Joe Fenton does not hide that one of the ideological inspirers of this project was unforgettable Hieronymus Bosch, whose paintings still make inexperienced and overly tender personalities shiver as if from frost.
Joe Fenton presented his "Loneliness" - and created - as a huge puzzle, consisting of a huge number of small details, moreover, religious ones. So, in the picture, Ganesha, and the grinning Buddha, and even Orthodox temples, crowned with crosses, in the background flaunt. Not to mention the "extras" in the form of various evil spirits, whether they be fantastic monstrous animals, or the deities of hell, who, by some wild accident, found themselves on the same "field" with the deities.
So, day after day, week after week, pencil sketches were more carefully drawn with a slate, then the author introduced gouache, and later acrylic paints, and as a result of many months of work, the world saw Joe Fenton's "Loneliness" in all its surreal glory. The whole process, captured in the photo, can be seen on the artist's personal website.
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