{"id":2098,"date":"2012-07-27T12:47:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T19:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2024-03-19T00:18:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:18:17","slug":"have-we-met-before-you-look-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/have-we-met-before-you-look-familiar\/","title":{"rendered":"Have we met before? You look familiar."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Piero di Cosimo – Venus, Mars & Cupid (detail), c. 1486-1510<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pretty boys have been around for a long time, and I’ll be the first to say that I’m not the only artist out there working on this subject. I would like to think that I’m doing something different and unique with the idea, but I’m also just one in a long succession of artists that have chosen the pretty boy as a muse. Like I’ve mentioned in the past about my project, pretty boys kill me<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span>, I’m interested in the pretty boy in popular culture – and there is certainly no shortage of them in the media today – especially in the fashion and entertainment industries.<\/p>\n

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Raphael – Self-Portrait, 1506<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A lot of my artwork is influenced by art history, and this project is no different. \u00a0Throughout art history, the pretty boy was a muse, depicted by mainly male artists, as angels, saints and gods, across all cultures. \u00a0Here is just a small selection of some of the artists and paintings that I’ve been influenced by over the years:<\/p>\n

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Left: Sandro Botticelli – Saint Sebastian, 1474; Right: Albrecht Durer – Adam, 1507<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Caravaggio – Bacchus, 1595<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Francois Gerard – Cupid & Psyche, 1798<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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John Singer Sargent – Study of a Young Man (detail)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the more contemporary artists that I’ve looked at, whose work I follow, is Elizabeth Peyton:<\/p>\n

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Elizabeth Peyton – Tony (Savoy), 1999<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Elizabeth Peyton – Spencer (1999)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

***\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are still 27 days left on my Indiegogo campaign<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, and again I’d like to thank everyone for their support. I’m more than half way to reaching my goal! If you haven’t had a chance to, please check out my campaign and read about my project and residency<\/span><\/strong><\/a> in Reykjavik, Iceland this September.<\/p>\n

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I could be yours for $200…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pretty boys have been around for a long time, and I’ll be the first to say that I’m not the only artist out there working on this subject. I would like to think that I’m doing something different and unique with the idea, but I’m also just one in a long succession of artists that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-with-sidebar","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[263,12,275,169,265,23,166],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Cosimo-Mars-Detail.jpg?fit=550%2C629&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}