Video: New life for gloss: magazine photos become abstract paintings
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The Spaniard Gim Tio Sarraluchi, like many other men, does not read fashionable gloss. He came up with something more interesting: Gim transforms photographs found in magazines into memorable abstract images using a sophisticated image manipulation system.
A significant part of the Spaniard's works are advertising photographs from the magazine press. Sarraluki uses special chemical solvents and oil pastels, transforming “ideal” pictures of a nonexistent world into very abstract pictures that create a disturbing sense of impending danger in the viewer. Blurring the boundaries between the real and the fictional, Sarraluki inhabits his artistic space with strange creatures with disturbed proportions and an indifferent gaze.
His work is photorealistic. Moreover, if you look closely, you can see that each painting contains an element of the original image, be it lips, eyes, hair, or details of the environment. However, this does not bring the image closer to reality - on the contrary. Familiar interior details or a completely ordinary human ear, caught in a transformed reality, have an incredibly strong effect on the viewer's perception. The emotional tension emanating from the paintings of Sarraluca is immense.
The artist actualizes the problems that are usually hushed up in modern society. His work becomes a study of the collective unconscious, regulating the aesthetic valence of all types of human deformities and the narcissistic emulation of beauty as the key to success. This is a kind of parody of the stereotypes that today govern the new concepts of the meaning of human life.
A disturbing and strange world can be found in the paintings of another interesting painter, American Travis Collinson (Travis Collinson). The symbiosis of classical painting and minimalist abstraction, embodied in his paintings, creates about the same with the audience as the anti-ideal images of Sarraluca.
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