Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Devastatingly Beautiful

I am in a daze looking at this Christian Schoeler painting. I have never seen his work before, but after further googling I found he is known for his contemporary fashion paintings.

I just read a whole interview of his here. He is a very intriguing artist (but, aren't they all?!). I love how he describes his artistic style:
Ecstasy and loss. Adolescence and Vulnerability. Beauty and decadence. Devastatingly beautiful, intimate watercolor or oil paintings that share as much with contemporary fashion photography as they do with pre-photography portraiture. A “style” and approach that is perhaps unfashionable relative to the contemporary art ’scene’, but arguably timelessly fashionable.

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