How to create an amazing expressive portrait? Learn from Blumenfeld , whose obsession with beauty is forever.
Erwin Blumenfeld is a relatively unknown artist . But , as has occurred in recent years with other authors - with - held female representation , the Jeu de Paume in Paris, led by Spanish Marta Gili , is determined to put the German artist ( Berlin, 1897 - Rome, 1969 ) in the proper place in the history of photography. The result of that will disclose , embodied in an ambitious exhibition curated by Ute Eskildsen , to discover in the museum of the Place de la Concorde to a versatile artist Man Ray comparable to that advanced the expressive possibilities of collage and, above all , revolutionized the expressive portrait .
The first impression that makes the viewer, after visiting the retrospective Blumenfeld, is to have attended a course in aesthetics, a lesson in perseverance in the difficult art of capturing the beauty and force a proxy by reflected lights.
Traditionally associated with fashion photography , which led him to produce the covers of Vogue and other magazines of exceptional artistic quality (for unusual and avant-garde ) , the Paris show reveals a photographer obsessive and deeply imagination that gives himself carte blanche to get the result you are looking for. It manages to create psychological portraits without artifice scenic convert a canvas female nude magic and make commercial portraits whose creativity exceeds and transcends the object advertised .
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