MARYLIN MONROE
by Florian Eymann.
Artist Proof
Florian EYMANN portrays faces that emerge as tortured, deformed, sometimes ghostly or violently deformed.
His interpretations of Marilyn MONROE, however iconoclastic they may seem, reveal the torments of an iconic life deeply autopsied by the painter.
Florian EYMANN overlays and merges shapes portraying the constant impression of construction / destruction.
The artist seems to use unusual techniques, he muddles the tracks and erases the identities of the characters, therefore giving birth to powerful and enigmatic creations.
This artist proof is the result of Florian EYMANN's work in reinterpreting Andy WARHOL's Marilyns.
A powerful tribute!
Blow-up
on ‘Marilyn Monroe’
Fragmentation Painting or De-Figuration ?
Florian EYMANN's numerous studies of Marilyn show us a kind of resurrection of this timeless icon.
They re-figure Marilyn without obscuring her legendary beauty but by adorning her with all the fragments of her disillusionments.
In this, Florian EYMANN re-humanizes Marilyn while rendering her spectral, inviting us to see deeper into her soul.
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by Florian Eymann
“I work on interpretations of legendary works and artists, these great masters who made me dream and jostled. I humbly try to interpret their work.”
— Florian EYMANN
Interpretations.
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The Last Supper (from Leonardo Da Vinci)
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The Origin of The World (from Gustave Courbet)
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Girl With The Pearl Earring (from Johannes Vermeer)
“I started by distorting the figures I was painting in the manner of the great 18th century English portraitists. Then my American gallery owner advised me to start with famous paintings: people know Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi and have fun finding the painting in my interpretation. It's a game. It's like an album of covers, a gateway to my world.”
— Florian EYMANN
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YEAR
2020
TECHNIQUE
Oil painting
EDITION SIZE
Artist Proof
DIMENSIONS
30 cm x 30 cm | 11.81 in. x 11.81 in
PAPER
Linen
SIGNATURE
Being signed, numbered, stamped and dated by the artist
AUTHENTICATION
Being accompanied by a COA
CONDITION
Work sold in perfect condition
FRAME
No, so you can get it framed as you like
SHIPPING
Will be extremely well packed in a flat package to ensure safe delivery
PRICE.
On demand
Bio
Florian EYMANN has a pronounced taste for pictorial exploration. For this self-taught artist, faces, expressions and marks of time are to be deconstructed and reinterpreted.
"I don't want to be constrained by rules. I don't go to museums either."
It is by "staying in his bubble" and surfing the web that he has forged an artistic culture. His paintings, which are "interpretations" of classical paintings and pop culture figures, bear witness to this: in his version of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, the two apostles on the left are about to disappear. "They are faded, like in the original fresco. I like this effect of time passing."
His interpretations of Manet's Fifre, Courbet's The Origin of The World or Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe have one thing in common: they seem washed out by the rain, as if painted on a wall covered a thousand times with posters. But the original painting remains identifiable.
He shows us that figurative standards can be transcended by explosive, abstract paint strokes that partially hide the work and let the imagination run wild.
Stylistically, the French artist embraces baroque portraiture by applying high-contrast oil paint to a dark canvas in his paintings. The original intention of a Baroque portrait painter, to depict the individuality, status and origin of the social elite in an idealised way, is uncompromisingly subverted in EYMANN's works: figuration is transferred into abstraction.
Sensations and psychological abysses are pervasive, covering the wise placidity of the classical portrait.