Stefan Harris creator of beautiful things.
The artist is the
creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
Oscar
Wilde, Preface of Dorian Gray 1891.
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| Stefan Harris, Self Portrait, oil on canvas, 60X90 cm, 2012 |
Stefan
Harris is a young British artist. He works on the field of contemporary art. He
makes painting, architecture, design and photography.
His
painting plays with reality. He tries to reproduce play of light, each mark on
faces he paints. It creates painting as realistic as photography.
He made a
self portrait on February 2012, on his website he says that this painting took
him nine months to complete. He made a video to show his artistic process.
It reminds the
entire self portrait made in art history especially those which plays with
realism like Rembrandt or Frida Kahlo (especially with the strength in the eyes
and the intimacy between the painting (and the painter!) and the spectator).
On this
masterpiece, we can find a link with the novel of Oscar Wilde “The portrait of
Dorian Gray”. The painter captures his youth and freezes it on the canvas. On
his set expression, we can see the youth but also the soul of Stefan Harris.
Just like
Oscar Wilde says: To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's
aim. Stefan Harris makes both of them…
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