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11 Oct, 2008 in art pottery by admin

Line Opaque White

Artist Mathew Cerletty's Art Work and Paintings at the Saatchi Gallery

Matthew Cerletty’s paintings encapsulate a cosmopolitan air with their voguish finish and ambivalent sexuality. Presenting a fragmented body, Cerletty’s Untitled trades image for the fetish of gesture, his absent figure reduced to an intimation of style. Rendered as graphic form against an empty slate coloured ground, Cerletty’s hands seem strangely foreign and empirical. Classically positioned, Cerletty sets his study as abstracted intrigue, his opaque white sleeve and purple nail polish convert the representational to formalist balance, constructing the sublime through the simplicity of casual expression.

Matthew Cerletty’s Untitled reconsiders the figure as an abstracted strategy of design. Set on a cold ground, his torso is centred as an obsessional focus of concentration. Rendered with painterly impasto, his shirt becomes a slacker study of illusionary space: its simplified cartoon form balancing between graphic flatness and 3D perspective, the stylised shadow alluding to sculptural form reinforces the planar surface. The addition of the hands converts Cerletty’s painting from compositional study to relational subject, infusing traditional line, shape, and tone with dandyish and charismatic personality.

Mathew Cerletty’s work ranges from accutely rendered realist paintings and drawings to text based work distilling images of lifestyle ideals. Throughout his practice Cerletty defines the rules of attraction, using the formal qualities of painting to explore the principles of beauty and fixation. In N, traditional imagery is exchanged for a simple letter: a person’s initial, empty logo, generic mark, or graphic design. Set on a textured white ground, the letter’s painterly domination commands with its force of expression and charismatic humour. Rendered in envy-green and adorned with anthropomorphic eyes, N assumes centre of attention as typeface of sheer vanity.Cerletty's strong figurative paintings sold well at Miami Basel and his career shows no sign of letting up; a new painting of his was recently included in a group show at Andrea Rosen. The show, entitled "Now is a Good Time," was curated by a collector who stated in the press release, "It's something of a Romantic time--a moment when younger artists especially are privileging feeling over analysis, the handcrafted over the mechanical, and sincerity over irony." The moment he identifies, however, presents only a shallow reflection of original Romantic styles. The proliferation of sensitive and sweet works which fall under this Romantic rubric is easy on the eye and, in the process, leaves something to be desired.

Read Entire Article about USA Artist Mathew Cerletty paintings and artwork at The Saatchi-Gallery http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/mathew_cerletty.htm

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View Mathew Cerletty paintings, biography, solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and resource of Mathew Cerletty. View art online at The Saatchi Gallery - London contemporary art gallery. Mathew Cerletty

Halloween costume feedback?

Well, I've decided to be mod, kinda like Twiggy, for Halloween and I want to know if it's a good idea. I'm wearing opaque black tights, this dress: http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41eQKO5XrQL._SS260_.jpg , in blue, pink, green, or purple. (With blacks shorts underneath if it's too short.) And black flats. (I'd wear heels, but I'm gonna be walking around.) For my makeup, I'm lining my eyes all the way around, top and bottoms, with black eyeliner, putting sparkly white liner on the inner corners, and putting concealer on my lips to make them pale. I'm also straightening my hair. Tell me what you think and offer suggestions please.

Honest opinion. . it would work if you were skinny, if you're a bit chubby, it look kind of goofy. . (I'm chubby, so I wouldn't wear that). Good luck.

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