Stu Mead Stu Mead's (born 1955) paintings approach the art world at a tangent; though the artist received a formal art education, his cartoon-inspired style and predilection for painting prepubescent, female o
| Title | : | Stu Mead |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.91 (774 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 8086450899 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-23 |
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Editorial :
Stu Mead's (born 1955) paintings approach the art world at a tangent; though the artist received a formal art education, his cartoon-inspired style and predilection for painting prepubescent, female objects of desire has placed him somewhere outside the mainstream, but with a firm cult following. This monograph compiles many of Mead's paintings--fantastical, surreal and erotic--in a handsome hardcover. Inspired by the paintings and drawings of Hans Bellmer and Balthus, Mead works at the intersection of high and low art, unabashedly depicting taboo topics and scenarios. A student of Andrea Dworkin's in the 1980s, Mead comes out of the radical feminist movement, and his graphic painting style investigates identity, gender and social emancipation. Straddling the line between fairytale illustration and comic-book humor, Berlin-based Mead's controversial work is published as a retrospective for the first time.
This the first Stu Mead overview to be published and shows his beginnings as a surrealist who was told by another artist to paint what makes you happy when finding his way to painting his personal fantasies and later to painting portraits. They didn't really go into how to do the business part, how to really dig in and establish yourself, and then keep it growing. If the prices were lower it would be easier, of course, but one can understand the price given the very high production quality here. I finally went to a place that makes frames, and the cheapest frame I'd be looking at would cost $80 to make.
Bottom line: If you're hoping to put this in a frame, don't buy it unless you're willing to spend at least 5 times what you paid for the poster on a frame. In the first third of the book, she provides biographies of each of the main participants in the family drama. So take a break from the innocence and tranquility of everyday life and pore through this deliciously diabolic
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