Fine Art: Photomanipulation (PROFESSIONAL) - HONORABLE MENTION
Bloom Face
Photo © Natalie Dybisz
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BLOOM FACE is a large-scale photograph of a face, digitally interwoven with hundreds of paintings from art history: English landscapes, Flemish still lifes, battle scenes and sporting subjects, animals, insects, cherubs and flowers all upon a face as the 'canvas' in Photoshop. The artist chose from hundreds of classical works from 16th to the 19th century, and therefore expired copyrights, and strategically placed them to form a mask across the face of a beauty model, taking over 6 months to complete. The result is a piece intended for large-scale, physical viewing beyond the screen that we are so used to in our techno-saturated lives; a purposeful move away from the short attention span of tiny Instagram thumbnails. When viewed in print at 2 metres high, or in the video zooming into the details, the viewer loses themselves in exploring every little leaf, butterfly, bird; through to the surreal surprises planted: a swan with human arms, a canary in a jacket, a horse rider saddled on a petal. Bloom Face is the artist's follow up to ‘Kai Face’ which used hundreds of ancient Chinese paintings and exhibited in public view in Kai Mayfair, London. Bloom Face made in 2016 has a European flavour, featuring Thomas Gainsborough, Peter Paul Rubens, Angelica Kauffman, Anthony Van Dyck, Jan Van Kessel, Alexandre Desportes amongst many others.
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BLOOM FACE is a large-scale photograph of a face, digitally interwoven with hundreds of paintings from art history: English landscapes, Flemish still lifes, battle scenes and sporting subjects, animals, insects, cherubs and flowers all upon a face as the 'canvas' in Photoshop. The artist chose from hundreds of classical works from 16th to the 19th century, and therefore expired copyrights, and strategically placed them to form a mask across the face of a beauty model, taking over 6 months to complete. The result is a piece intended for large-scale, physical viewing beyond the screen that we are so used to in our techno-saturated lives; a purposeful move away from the short attention span of tiny Instagram thumbnails. When viewed in print at 2 metres high, or in the video zooming into the details, the viewer loses themselves in exploring every little leaf, butterfly, bird; through to the surreal surprises planted: a swan with human arms, a canary in a jacket, a horse rider saddled on a petal. Bloom Face is the artist's follow up to ‘Kai Face’ which used hundreds of ancient Chinese paintings and exhibited in public view in Kai Mayfair, London. Bloom Face made in 2016 has a European flavour, featuring Thomas Gainsborough, Peter Paul Rubens, Angelica Kauffman, Anthony Van Dyck, Jan Van Kessel, Alexandre Desportes amongst many others.
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