Raphael Vicenzi In-depth analysis

The piece of work was done by Raphael Vicenzi and he lives in Brussels belgium where he does all his work which is all done on advanced photoshop and on that note has been in featured in computer arts, illusive 2 and fashion wonderland. His work most of time conflicts on the fashion world and the beauty industry. The artist is 40 and is still working well with in the art industry. The work is called wolf mirror and is a water coloured painting if you will, and the work was made in 2008 and was made for it to exhibited for his own exhibition and wasn't for any clients or anything which in my opinion makes it better. I have chosen to analyse this piece because It is one of the best pieces I have seen with this artist and with this I would like to work like this but with a fine liner and use the fine liner for the colour shading in away.

www.mydeadpony.com/, this is the artist's website and as you can see is a very weird title of course but I think its great and if it gets people to your website by all means do it.An article/ interview that was done of him was done by one of our teachers that work here and this is how it went.The bits in bold is the whole interview.

CC: How would you describe your work or style?

RV: I think it's a weird mix of fashion illustration, street art, DYI,  typography & collage works. It's just a melting pot of different influences that found their way into my way of thinking. I try to stay spontaneous when I work now, I used to over think what I did.

CC: How do you find work or commissions?

RV: Usually people will contact me directly or go through my illustrator agency Colagene. They find me through my portfolio on Behance for example.

CC: Can you describe in a few words how you make your work?

RV: Either I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do or I just start a new piece and see where it leads me. Thus said the results are always very different from what I imagined. I just draw the woman, I use references a lot, then Ipile up textures & elements until I am happy with it. I try out different things until it clicks. The basic idea helps me to gather different elements that I just place around. Like I said, I try to be spontaneous when I work and hope for the best.

As you  can see he is a really cool artist who clearly replays to a lot of his fan base. The quote that came with this piece of work was of course wolf mirror which is basically saying when you look into the mirror most girls always says that look ugly or something that wouldn't be true and that would be the wolf mirror. A good quote from the artist that I found was from the internet although it isn't about the piece of work im looking at I felt that it should be in my indepth analysis; None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free , this quote from the artist is very deep in away and not expected from a artist I fill, I fill the quote is very much him and really does speak about his work in away, Such as this piece "those who falsely believe they are free" this part I think makes a better understanding to the wolf mirror piece as in a way your self as free in the mirror to be who you want to, and this girl in her image is a wolf and maybe in away she doesn't believe that she is free in the real world so their for slaved. I would say that this work is portraiture and makes the work fill like its going somewhere, I think if it was landscape it would make the work fill as if its staying their and not moving but with this being portraiture creates a story about the girl in away and she is getting on with wolf in the mirror.

The theme is of course fashion which in a sense is why the picture is of a girl as you would normal asume with in fashion. With the title I really think it gives a in-depth meaning to the piece, as if you just had the image with no title a lot of people would just asume its a random image and has no meaning, so in away with this piece the title is really important to the piece as it gives the piece a meaning, which is of course the girl looking into a mirror and saying how she see's her self as a wolf, and this gives the view many different meanings behind the work which is great as people can say the work is more in-depth. The subject behind this I think is story based and in away the artist has become a story writer to the views who view the work, so for example I see this as a girl who see's her self as a beast and not very pretty in away and sort of doesn't see her life with much meaning, this is great to see in work these days as anyone can come up with a story behind this work and it would make sense. I think the artist has really found inspiration from the film snow white, as it has a mirror and a woman a bit like the queen from snow white who is jealous of not being the prettiest in the land and goes to the mirror to ask who is the prettest in the land and the mirror says not you of course and maybe this is what piece is about in a way.

The materials and techniques I think have been used in this would have to be paper which is then drawn with pencil to start with and the layered with a fine liner and then I think the artist has used watercolours to get a drip effect with the work. Skills used in this piece I would say is collage which is good as I have been doing collage recently with my work so looking at this artist has really inspired me to think about the space thats being used and maybe not being used to create a better understanding to the work. The artists use of colour starts off with the lines being very primary which then goes on to creating the image which can go back to the meaning as its like she see's things as basica and child like in a way. the colours are very basic other than those five primary colours leading to her head and it fills like its a rainy day so the mix of black, red and light blue almost fills like a murder in a way which goes back to the meaning a story telling. The scale of the work is important with this work I fill, the work is done with A2 and it makes the viewer see a lot more into the work along with the detail behind it and I fill if it wasn't as big the meaning to would have been lost in the mix of it. The formal elements are key with this artist the line making that the artist makes you one know its by the artist as the artist uses this a lot in their work, the texture behind this is all done to the watercolours with the dripping of the colour which once again goes back to meaning behind the work. The lines used also create a pattern which is very fashion based which is how this artist does work.

I have chosen to look at this work because the artist really relates to my work and is very inspirational.
My first reaction of this work was that it has a very deep meaning behind it which made me look at work more and more and learn to enjoy it more. I love the use of colour with in the work and the illustration the only thing that could be improved is the spacing of the word. The work reminds me off work that I have done before or have tried to do before. The only work that it reminds me of is that of lucinda rogers which is basically the same sort of techniques which I will have to do another in-depth analysis on. the work has really inspired me to do work on the type of work and I will have to give it ago over half term break but over all it is great piece of work by a great artist.