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retroroxi In reply to gilbertlayole [2008-03-24 23:47:56 +0000 UTC]

one of my favs. As well as one by Olivia.

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gilbertlayole In reply to retroroxi [2008-03-25 08:52:13 +0000 UTC]

Olivia? Who is she, please?

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retroroxi In reply to gilbertlayole [2008-03-26 04:38:33 +0000 UTC]

Wrong artist for piece I was thinking of. See this link for Soroyama if you don't know of her.

Olivia de Berardinis is also very nice to look at.

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gilbertlayole In reply to retroroxi [2008-03-26 07:45:22 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, Roxane, for the link. I din't know Soroyama who looks to be a ‘classical’ illustrator. What I really like in your works is the humor, the irony and your way to keep your distance with your theme and to play with the ‘archetype’ of the pin-up by mixing different visual worlds… Olivia is a good classical llustrator too. But your collages belong to an another sort of art, in my opinion…
Bye

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retroroxi In reply to gilbertlayole [2008-03-27 00:44:48 +0000 UTC]

What is your opinion on "other sort". Just curious.

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gilbertlayole In reply to retroroxi [2008-03-27 11:44:38 +0000 UTC]

It’s difficult to explain with my bad english.
I only may repeat that you're playing with the pin-up's theme. You use those popular images in a funny and intelligent way. You make meet worlds which never should have meet with : Alice in Wonderland, illustrations from Jules Vernes children's novels, technical or medical images... Yes, a great part of the art of collage play with those kind of mix and surreal mix, of course…
In this case, you don't take away the sexual references, and more : your pin-up’s images often show (or sometimes add) the sexual background less or more hidden in the others pictures which are far away from the pin-up’s world. You add a distance from the basic sexual theme without erasing it : pin-up is a means to make something more. Your pin-ups invide other « planets » : those pretty women set fire to them. Sorry, but i'm not able to precisely translate in english what i think in french...

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