Video: Luxury and opulence in Baroque photographs by German artist Helen Sobiralski
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
"A pearl with vice" - art critics often call this style baroque. Cockaignesque series by German photographer Helen Sobiralski, combines both pearl beauty and vicious sophistication. Luxury, striving for pomp and wealth, inner tension and dynamism of images - all these are the features that distinguish the paintings of this young talent.
The photographer has received several prestigious art awards for her gorgeous photo shoot in her homeland, Berlin. The series of works was named Cockaignesque for a reason: Cockain is the name of a fabulous medieval country, where idleness and abundance reign in everything. Creating unusual portraits, the artist focuses on the tradition of the baroque still life.
Correct work with light is of great importance to Helen. It is thanks to the special ratio of light and shadow that the almost mystical effect of combining reality and the illusory world is achieved. In addition, with the help of skillfully selected lighting, the artist managed to overcome the line between photography and painting, so that the subjects captured in her works look like painted ones. The main task of light is to highlight the details, to give the author an opportunity to “play” with the shadows. More of the artist's work can be seen on her Facebook page.
Unfortunately, the Baroque style, due to its pomp and excessive pretentiousness, does not often attract the attention of contemporary artists. True, on our site Culturology. We have already written about another admirer of this trend in art - about Sean Murray, who managed to bring baroque elements into fantasy art.
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