About Me
- Stephen Cefalo
- I am a painter. www.StephenCefalo.com, http://twitter.com/#!/CefaloStudio
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
T-Shirts, Togas, or Au Naturel? : The Problem With Clothing In Art
An interpretation of Bouguereau for a photoshop contest on worth1000.com |
One of the snags of our over-scienced post-industrial age is that we now know everything, so we no longer need our imaginations. Another is that we don't make anything ourselves. Our day-glow hats and fanny packs are one size fits all, and will be out of vogue next year. Clothing is designed for the convenience of the manufacturer in worldwide uniformity. Shirts and jackets are emblazoned with company logos and pants are made extra baggy to fit our masses.
"Foreclosure" by Max Ginsburg |
I don't mourn modern inventions, because they have afforded me more time and freedom to create. The problem for a visual artist though is that it is difficult to make poetry out of the throw-away objects of mass-production. The options before us are kind of like this:
1. Embrace modern fashion with tongue-in-cheek humor
2. Select less offensive or conspicuous contemporary fashions, or simplify by playing down the uglier aspects of them.
3. Invent your own clothing styles
4. Dress your models in period costumes, most likely mismatching different past eras.
5. No clothes at all. (Easiest, but sometimes yields awkward results.)
6. Sheet.
Best of luck friends.
Rembrandt |
Massaccio |
William Whitaker |
Odd nerdrum |
My painting "Iconoclast" |
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Saturday, March 3, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Gandalf's Gallery: Pietro Paolini - Allegory of the Five Senses [c.16...
Gandalf's Gallery: Pietro Paolini - Allegory of the Five Senses [c.16...: Pietro Paolini - Allegory of the Five Seasons [c.1630] , a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr. At first glance, this is simply a sce...
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