{"product_id":"2940149022908","title":"Jesse Waugh Paintings 2013","description":"My Pulchrist Experiment in Verisimilitude\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving lived as an experimental ‘artist-at-large’ for the past two decades, I took it upon myself to try my hand at representative oil painting this year. I moved to Florence, Italy, in December, 2012, because I wanted to see how renaissance painters created Beauty on canvas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat I found was that far from being hyperrealist in the execution of their paintings, the Old Masters simply attempted to create Beauty in as realistic a way as was possible. Trompe l’oeil was and is a niche technique. The unitiated often fetishise hyperverisimilitude, believing it to possess the greatest intrin- sic artistic value. But my goal is to create Beauty. I’ve even created my own art movement which I call Pulchrism. So I attempted realism in painting this year merely as a potential vehicle for Beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawn somewhat unconsciously to silent movie imagery, I began this quest with a still image capture from an old movie, interpreting its general form into my Sacred Hermaphrodite diety 5=6 who descends onto Florence’s Via del Moro.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom there I pursued more realistic body contouring with Suffrage and Beauty Disarming Love, learning about background detailing along the way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinding a beautiful head shot of silent movie actress Lilian Gish on the Inter- net, I was inspired to recreate a version of her in oil paint. I fell in love with her at first sight, and therefore had to name her Galatea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the summer came to Florence I decided it was time to migrate to my air-conditioned apartment in New York City’s Bowery District. There I paint- ed Cascading Orchids as a still life practice exercise in preparation for Butterfly Goddess - a much larger, more complex work. I soon after completed Unicorn Purifying Water, an accomplished work in my estimation, one inspired by an exhibition of unicorn imagery at the Cloisters in northern Manhattan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter spending a month in Japan seeking out Shinto shrines and Japanese Art Nouveau, I finally returned to the UK and ventured to recreate hothouse flowers in Pitcher Plants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving a strong desire to make large canvases depicting beautiful butterflies, I endeavored to reproduce the extraordinary colour of the Madagascan Sunset Moth in my last painting of the year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Jesse Waugh, November 2013 jessewaugh [dot] com","brand":"Carpophage Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184041607408,"sku":"2940149022908","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149022908_p0.jpg?v=1763711091","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149022908","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}