I went on one of those blue link hypertext adventures through the net looking at shrine inspired work and found Yves Tessier. Yvess is a Canadian artist who creates bright, flat illustrations---often depicting the female figure. Here is his artist statement:
“I use drawing and painting to bring out the salient features of what I've seen, to describe the essential qualities of human life, articulated in a formal language drawn as much from Archaic periods of art history as from the aesthetic of comic books. I propose to delineate, in as candid a vision as humanly possible, the spirit of humanity in our time."
I love the idea of work that is consciously drawing stylistic cues from “archaic” art history and juxtaposing it with images from pop culture/ mass media. I love his treatment of the female figure, the sort of sensual simpleness of a form made up a few bold contour lines. I also dig the color!
(And of course the way he plays with size! I love some of his very small, sometimes even postcard sized pieces! Until recently, with my digital work I though that the size of the presentation was kind of arbitrary but of course I was so very mistaken! I am learning.)
“I use drawing and painting to bring out the salient features of what I've seen, to describe the essential qualities of human life, articulated in a formal language drawn as much from Archaic periods of art history as from the aesthetic of comic books. I propose to delineate, in as candid a vision as humanly possible, the spirit of humanity in our time."
I love the idea of work that is consciously drawing stylistic cues from “archaic” art history and juxtaposing it with images from pop culture/ mass media. I love his treatment of the female figure, the sort of sensual simpleness of a form made up a few bold contour lines. I also dig the color!
(And of course the way he plays with size! I love some of his very small, sometimes even postcard sized pieces! Until recently, with my digital work I though that the size of the presentation was kind of arbitrary but of course I was so very mistaken! I am learning.)