Video: Portraits and other paintings from molten and rolled plasticine. Creativity of the Mondongo art group
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
I can safely assume that working with plasticine, forming from it people and animals, plants and fruits, buildings and cars, if not all, then every second, and if not in kindergarten, then in the lower grades. However, I have never seen a grown-up treat him as a serious material for creativity. Although the artists Juliana Laffitte, Manuel Mendanha and Agustina Picasso, participants in the Argentine art collective Mondongo, - relate. It is plasticine that they use to create their paintings, which amaze the imagination with detail and color palette. To turn plasticine into "paint", to make it soft and pliable, to make it obediently wrinkle, smear and mix, artists doom it to hellish torments. Plasticine is heated to such a state that it practically melts, but remains stringy, viscous. And then they paint on the canvas with colored drops, streams and paths. The pictures are complemented by tubes, lumps and cubes sculpted from the same plasticine.
It's hard to imagine how long it took for the authors of plasticine portraits to get such vivid, realistic colors, reminiscent of strokes of oil paint. Artists achieve this effect by mixing colored plasticine and placing plasticine streams, paths and dots in the right place. But the end result is undeniably amazing. And who would have thought that plasticine, the material for children's entertainment, had such a powerful creative potential?
The Mondongo team will turn 12 next year, and all this time its members have been experimenting with a variety of creative materials. And the name itself, translated from Spanish, means "stewed tripe" (an exotic dish of national cuisine), and all because the artists paint their paintings not only with plasticine, but also with food, literally "from the cauldron."
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