[A] Distorting Beauty

[Chemical]

A series of post card sized pieces.
Medium: Oil pastel and Black Ink

The series represents many things, but mostly tries to raise awareness of advertised beauty.

I won't go too much into what the images mean to me at this time, I refer to leave it ambigious so that perhaps others can discuss without my interference.

I don't think that the images are really... explicit however, if there is any concern I will be more than glad to remove them...

Enjoy:

Maga5

Michellangelo

Lorelei

Raphael

My favourite of the 5... Probably because aesthetically it works better than the others do.

[Chris]

Very gorgeous, a bit racy, but gorgeous.

[kikimm]

Hmm. Interesting. Not that it really means anything, because I have no clue what I'm talking about it when it comes to art, but I think they're very good. I like your favorite, and the Michellangelo one. They certainly do catch the eye, and hold your attention. I'd be interested in seeing more.

[nik0tine]

Wow. Very nice.

[MoonZapdos]

Not bad. Not bad at all!

[nik0tine]

*warns*

[Rye]

Wow, those are impressive. I love the colour of them. Great job. My favourite is Lorelei.

[Ouch!]

They're all very good, great work. My favorite is Raphael, but that's my middle name so I could be slightly biased.

[Xander]

The images are fine, I don't think they are too graphic for here.

They are very beautiful! I especially like the first and the last one.

[Chaos]

I like them, you have a great style going with the pastels and such. I like the dramaticness of the backgrounds, very striking.

I like Lorelei best, the colour combinations really hit out at me. These are very beautiful images.

Chaos

[Chemical]

thanks for all of your compliments.

I like the style for a couple of reasons. I kept the images arm and legless because it reminded me of those old master pieces, the classical beauties in Europe. Hence why some were named after classic masters.

I like to play with the idea of beauty and how it is fleeting. A kinda momento mori, if you will. A reminder of death. How beauty is fleeting. Also, in this particular instance I wanted to remind others that the figures in magazines (the poses were appropriated from a couple of mainstream advertisemets) are often very beautiful but at the price that they become something eternal. Like, the living dead.... in that they're altered, air brished... made fictional. So it's a cruel kind of beauty and almost surreal to a point. Perhaps even unnatainable.

That's why I played with the grotesqueness. Making some thing beautiful grotesque. It gives it a more human and a more relatable edge.

Sometimes we people, even if we are told we are beautiful or even if we seem beautiful can sometimes feel ugly. There are many reasons.... but it can also show... that sometimes when we seem or told that there is something ugly about us there is also something just really strikingly beautiful.

Like a deep beauty with in under the skin.

Mostly a ying and yang... that we ballance... that we play the role of both creatures. The frightening beauty... or the beautiful fear.