Captured from the magazine during the lecture.Richard Orjis – 2, Oct., 2009
Richard’s works are varied from people, nature, still life and art photography. Mainly focuses on the element of people. Using the real visual image to create a mysterious atmosphere from his created fiction world. A series of photographs with the American Gothic boys in the wheat field, relate to the religion and sexuality. They are hiding somewhere secretly to play a game with sexuality only belong to their own world. Despite the metaphoric meaning behind the image, the composition and colors combination with an extraordinary aesthetics from the artist. I really like these art works which he created in 2004.
Richard’s works are varied from people, nature, still life and art photography. Mainly focuses on the element of people. Using the real visual image to create a mysterious atmosphere from his created fiction world. A series of photographs with the American Gothic boys in the wheat field, relate to the religion and sexuality. They are hiding somewhere secretly to play a game with sexuality only belong to their own world. Despite the metaphoric meaning behind the image, the composition and colors combination with an extraordinary aesthetics from the artist. I really like these art works which he created in 2004.
A male figure faces the camera. He is heavily festooned with flowers – orchids mainly. Orchids have long been known as “the sexiest flowers on earth” . Artist have exploited it as a symbol of sexual metaphor to make the art forms with different mediums. Richard uses Photoshop to do editing for the flowers and collages on the portrait. I am wondering he uses the way so boldly. Living in this century, artist might have more flexibility to utilize the scientific technology into the contemporary arts and it has become more common. The head this portrait is spreadly smudged with grey mud. The wreaths of orchids is beautiful, but with the mud-head and dark background highlights the effect of mysterious emotions. An idol as a representation of a God used as an object of worship. The emerged dark space from the origin. It means the beginning, the source of world also with the hint of “ there’s something else going on”. It inspires my curiosity about Richard’s Empire of Dirt. This image widely reproduced within 3 years only. Overall, Richard’s works might seem like working with many different things. But everthing seems come from the same source and the same concerns around him. It’s all related to the nature, cult, myth and the gothic.
Richard Orjis’s works present in both places of galleries and magazines. The art can be viewed in the magazine or advertisement become a public art and get wide range of audience. And the audience also get more benefits from the reviewing from the convenient source. The longer I looked at the images the deeper I felt addicted and enchanted into the fiction world which Richard have created. For my future pactice on my art work, I will try to exploit the methods broadly including tradition or new technology to combine my imagery into the art. Experiment and find the new way to express and display my works.
Some really nice ideas here, Shu-Chen, both about the subject matter of Richard's work, and the way he disperses his imagery, both in galleries and in magazines. Good work!
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