Dior 2019 Print

It is my quest to paint the most beautiful painting in all of history. The discussion about 'beauty' is a discussion that has been taking place in painting since man could pick up a brush, and it is my imperative to represent our era, our time, within this ongoing discussion as the future unfolds beyond our lives. Who could deny that our era has a better understanding and a better comprehension of how to define beauty than any era in the past? With the rise of fashion brands and the spread of photography, the very core concept of beauty has been defined and redefined decade after decade, season after season. The discussion of what beauty is, and who defines beauty to who, is written about across the years through classic textbooks, across months through countless magazines, and across days in a torrent of comment sections. The way in which beauty is represented within images has changed drastically over the past century, and even the compositions of classic paintings seem alien and ancient compared to how we consume beauty on a daily basis in this day and age. The professional fashion photograph has its aesthetic, and the amateur fashion photograph online has another. And the two constantly feed off and represent the other as trends ebb and flow and change endlessly. This gives an artist an endless sea of subject matter, and a wealth of new compositions to explore. However, the history of painting has also provided the modern oil painter with a completely new and different way to represent these images. Painting has methods that the camera cannot provide. Painting has its own language. The language of Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Renoir and thousands of others. This painting, my painting - ‘Dior 2019’ - is my first venture into the marriage of these two voices. The composition and subject matter is taken from the fashion photography from Christian Dior’s advertising campaign from 2019, while the method in which the image is recreated follows the painting methods of Francois Boucher and Jean-Honore Fragonard of the Rococo movement. The incandescent quality of the coat captured within the painting is lacking from the original advertising photograph. The illusion of a glowing light that comes from physically standing in front of this canvas is achieved by the methods that Boucher and Fragonard used to make the dresses of their period glow upon their canvases. In this period of my own artistic career, I will be focusing mostly upon using the techniques of these two artists to represent how we see beauty today. This is the beginning of a long process. A process I will be following until I can paint as beautifully as I can. A striving quest which I intend to take me toward the subject matter that I will also need to achieve my mission - in other words, it is my intention to paint the specific individuals who we, as an entire race, consider to be the most beautiful people at this particular moment in time. And as the identity of this person changes, my art will change with it. It is my hope that you will join me on this journey. And I do not mean just by purchasing my art, I mean by being one of the voices who decides if I have done what I have set out to do, and to define which way this quest should lead me next. I will continue this discussion with each new painting until the end of my artistic career, and the final question is asked: Not: ‘DID he succeed in painting the most beautiful painting in all of history?’ But: ‘WHICH of his paintings is it? WHICH is the most beautiful painting in all of history?’

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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