The Death of Sardanapalus by Eugène Delacroix
The Destroyed Room by Jeff Wall
I've always appreciated artists who mimic or recreate famous works of art with their own spin. Jeff Wall is among that group.
He used advertisement technology to create art. I love this. It's like he reclaimed this technology for himself, and now something that was purely for commercial use becomes for art.
His work is very much like movie stills. You feel like you are only getting a small snippet of the story, but there is so much that happened before and will continue to happen. Since he collaborates with his models, who are mostly actors, this makes complete sense.
"I think all photos exists in this tension, that it's either only a fragment or its microcosmos." - Jeff Wall
"All pictures are a dialectic between depth and flatness." - Jeff Wall
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