At the moment of finishing High School any individual within
this time frame of age begins a series of decisions that will ultimately create
the roots to the outcome of their lives. As an Artist I am responsible in
filtering of all that is humanly chaotic and make some sense revealed as beauty
and at best as “truth”. Plato talks about the search of the “arch type” the
definitive object or concept that which all forms of what we comprehend of
being it’s “origin”. I have always looked to the masters they set the standards
(the key) from which all visual weather its physically and or conceptual two
dimensional or three dimensional. There’s two iconoclastic artist as well as
specific art pieces that I connect directly to this ideal of the ach type in
bridging the portraits of students to the a fresh approach to what is
classical. For example Michelangelo’s David:
at a glance studying the David statue one can see a child turned to a man
within the timing of maturity he stands erect and fully alive with awareness of
self.
The second example is Leonardo Da Vinci ‘s Mona Lisa in his
portrait of a young girl (boldly I say about the same age as in the David
statue) Da Vinci very much like photographers to perfectly positioned in light
and back ground she looks into the lens of Leonardo’s eyes with the absence of
time.
In hopes that these portraits reveals a glimpse of a time in
the life before the exuberance of life and it’s painfulness streams through
that laughter joy and love be much apart of it’s journey.
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