The greatest artist ever born!

Once upon a time there was a boy that dreamed to be an artist, be famous, get tons of money for a single painting, get laid with pretty girls and paint with total liberty whatever he had on mind.

He went to an art school. There he learned about the masters: Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo and Rafael. His idols from childhood, the ninja turtles. Life could not be better.

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Intimacy v 3.1

The following images are based on my series Intimacy.  The drawings on them are indeed scratches and I did them because these prints did not come out as I had expected and I am not into throw prints to the garbage.  I had this photos stored approximately two years since I print them because I knew I had to do something with them, but I did not know what.

Sometimes, you may have random ideas in your head but from there until make them reality may a take a while. Ideas and inspiration are just a small percentage of the creative process, the rest is real work, take the brushes a start to paint, grab the clay and start to shape it or take your camera and go out to take photographs and from there look at your work and redefine it. It is normal that you start with idea A and during the process it evolve to B and you may finish with C.

With these photographs my ideas ranged from cut them all in small pieces and make some kind of collage to make a single image-portrait, kind of Frankenstein, or to paint them, get some dry flowers and photograph them all together. At the end I went for something more simple as drawing on them but with a cutter.

 

I wanted to give them some mystery with symbols and texts that are related to my life experience. Saying that, you as spectator may have a different interpretation than me of for example of the spiders in the parachuting which is fine for me. In anyway, with each image there was a basic idea that carefully I had to polish before I start the scratching because I cannot undo a scratch! With some photos the drawing was fast but others few it took me up to two days before I could say it is completely finished. As I said, few moments of inspirations, longer periods of hand work.

 

Some of these photos did not pass my final selection to Intimacy series. Therefore in some way I am "recycling" images that I like a lot but otherwise would have finished buried in my archive. After all, photographs are to be seen. Don't they?

I think, this is something that actually everybody should try with prints that don't like or did not came out as you wanted. I mean, instead of throw money (prints) to to the garbage, give your photos a second chance and make a piece of art with them. 

About my photoss of cosplayers.

Three days ago I added a new gallery to my portfolio section in website, the gallery is a selection of my portraits of cosplayers that I have done in the past years while attending the anime convention Anime fest in the city of Brno.  My images have over-saturated colors, they are not “real” but my intention is not to represent reality. Anime and coplay is about fantasy and therefore in my photographs I want to show that fantasy, that unreal world of rich colors and fictional characters.

For me they are portraits of people who has the valor, courage, craziness and dare to live their dream at least for a day, incarnating someone they admire or like. Obviously some just want to have fun but still require courage to dress like that and go out to the streets.

Here some of them:

an exhibition: In Full Spectrum. Photography 1900-1950 from the Collection of the Moravian Gallery in Brno. 1st part.

Art nouveau, Art deco, beginnings of the Avant-garde.

Well before the end of the 19th century, art photography ceased to be a matter for individual endeavor. Amateur photographers began to organize themselves into clubs, working towards qualities comparable with painting and graphic art. Portrait photographers devoted themselves to the surpassing of the routine production of professional studios. The medium became divided into “art” and “non-art” categories. The amateur photographers were soon joined by some of the professionals themselves; Franz Grainer was among the firsts. 

In landscape photography it was felt necessary that description, mere “copying of reality", be avoided. Morning and night shots intended to evince mood or emotion came to the fore, at the expense of exact description (Vladimir J. Bufka). Representation of the ordinary in non-ordinary fashion also became popular.
A subject demanded attention by means of the originality or subtlety with which it was represented. The craft and science of photography also sought to leave the previous era far behind. Gelatin-silver emulsions were progressively replaced by painstaking noble manipulative processes such as gum print, oil print and bromoil print (platinum print and carbon print had already been invented). That photographic positives had turned into graphic prints, thoroughly demanding in nature and highly reliant on the feel, experience and manual skills of the artist, became an integral part of arguments for the acknowledgment of photography as art, at a time when purely mechanical “imprints of reality" had no chance to be viewed as art.

The work of Jaroslav Rossler, a pioneer of European avant-garde photography, bears witness to the intertwining of various styles and technical approaches in the period before the situation in photography crystallized. Rossler initially employed oil print and bromoil print to produce photographs in the vein of art deco (Miss Gerta) and cubo-futurism (Ore Tarraco), but soon for purely photogenic works as well (Brother).

Alois Zych c.1912

Frantisek Drtikol 1925