Trick Photography?
These photos seem appropriate after the last post regarding trompe l’oeil painting. These might be what you could call, trompe l’oeil trick photography. These came to me in an email that is circulating so unfortunately, I do not have photo credits except for Interesno.dn.ua. (Russia I think.) Most express a good sense of humor — especially for the end of a hard business week. I could post a lot of music to do with eyes and seeing but here’s some appropriate music from one of my favorite bands, Eyes Wide Open by Sixpense None the Richer to Kick-start the weekend. I was surprised, after seeing them in concert (in an…
Body of Work
This is an interesting story about Alexa Meade, a fairly new artist on the scene, who is gaining recognition quickly and was profiled recently in an article, “Flesh Perspective…” by Dan Zak for The Washington Post. What is uncommon in her work is that her canvas is the human body. That is, she paints directly on human subjects, who sit in a setting that also may be painted to give the living subject and space a painterly, almost other-wordly perspective. Real life becomes the painting. This may be traditional trompe l’oeil reversed? Not trying to replicate what is there but painting on what is there. As a decorative painter and…
Liu Bolin the Invisible Chinese Artist
Liu Bolin is quite literally the invisible man in that he paints himself into his photo compositions and you have to look hard in some case, like the second to last photo, to find him. I thought this was a phenomenal new way to view trompe l’oeil. His work is in protest against the Chinese government, who shut down his studio in 2005 when the area with people’s homes was bulldozed to make ready for the Olympic Games. His work represents not fitting into the norm. I received this in an email so do not have a credit for all the photos but here is a resource. I’ve updated the…
