Video: Gloomy seductresses from the paintings of Sylvia G
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Artist Sylvia Ji paints women. In some she embodies herself, while others she draws from people with whom she met or would like to meet. Her drawings combine the drama of the pre-Raphael era, the romantic sensuality of Alphonse Mucha and the charm of the beauties from the wall posters. And they also clearly show the motives of love, death and the transience of beauty.
Sylvia Gee's dark yet elegant work opens up a whole new perspective on femininity. Women from the artist's paintings, seductive and mysterious, seem to celebrate a dark holiday of life, death and rebirth. Including symbols of death in her works, Sylvia transforms her heroines into powerful, attractive and dangerous seductresses.
Sylvia Gee's works are painted with acrylics on wood. An interesting effect is achieved through the use of "dreamy" colors and backgrounds as opposed to the gloomy and even somewhere brutal expressions on the faces of women.
The artist's paintings are filled to the brim with a sexual challenge mixed with a sense of fear, suggesting that not everything is as good as it might seem at first glance.
Sylvia Gee was born in 1982 in San Francisco, but, as noted on her website, her artistic ability is more characteristic of a different time and place. For example, Mexico, where the Day of the Dead is celebrated annually. The painted faces of women from Sylvia's paintings often suggest the main symbol of this holiday - sweets in the form of skulls.
Now the 27-year-old artist lives and works in Los Angeles, and her works are exhibited not only in her native America, but also in Europe.
Recommended:
Paintings come to life: the inhabitants of the waters in the realistic paintings of Keng Lye
Keng Lye creates incredibly realistic images of aquatic creatures such as octopus, carp and shrimp. His work is even more surprising in that the artist needs only paint, transparent resin and a sense of perspective to create them
Contemporary paintings for which buyers of the Sotheby's and Christie's auctions are fighting: What is the uniqueness of Andrey Zakharov's paintings
The work of Andrei Zakharov, one of the most recognizable and popular artists in Russia, belongs to the outstanding achievements of modern Russian impressionist landscape painting. A gifted painter from Kostroma, with a bold manner of painting, he creates lyrical landscapes filled with fleeting mood and expression. Each of his works contains the richest variety of native nature, the expressiveness and incredible beauty of the world around us, as well as pictorial poetry reflecting refined chu
How the world's most famous paintings were created: Intriguing stories of great artists' paintings
Grigory Landau, a journalist and philosopher, once said: "Art is a dialogue in which the interlocutor is silent." Painting is a subtle art, allegorical, emotional, giving freedom of interpretation. This is a whole world of unsolved secrets and unsolved mysteries. Let's try to open the veil of secrecy over the history of the creation of the most famous canvases of great artists
Skulls are illusions. Gloomy paintings from paintings by Tom French (Tom French)
Illusion paintings, in which one image smoothly turns into another, and you yourself do not understand when you stopped seeing people in front of you, and instead sit looking at a gloomy skull - this is the favorite theme of the work of the young English designer Tom French. Thomas studied the art of painting in Sheffield, and recently devotes the lion's share of his work to philosophical paintings, the center of which is precisely the skull
Colored and bright on gray and gloomy. Paintings by Sage Vaughn
The American artist Sage Vaughn had a very unusual childhood, which left an imprint on his work. Born into a family of two young hippies, the boy did not have the opportunity to play with expensive toys, and his parents never had enough money for cheap ones. Therefore, the child took up drawing, and soon found his own style, creative manner - and joined the movement of graffiti artists