PHRASE February
MODERNIZED ART BLACK & WHITE ISSUE
CONTENTS
7 EDITOR`S LETTER 9 PLAYLIST OF THE MONTH 10 COVER STORY Chill in couture 18 INTERVIEW Art hisotry student reason about black&white art 20 ARTICLE Traditional paintings behind the colour by spanish artist Lino Lago 22 IN PHRASE Rococo rebellion 32 ARTICLE L’arte 34 IN PHRASE XVIII vs XXI
COVER LOOK Photography& Styling: Sophie Trunova Fashion: Yan Stepanenko Make up: Margherita Model: Katerina Sai @OneMother Agency
EDITOR’S PAGE ABOUT
PHRASE «PHRASE» In our editorials, you will be able to find phrases that will make you think. They are not for everyone, for someone they are going to seem unnecessary. People will skip them without even thinking, but for someone, our phrases can be inspiring. We want to make our readers muse on. Phrase’s people are: completely different, but are united by an interest in personal development. Individuals that love to dream and achieve their goals, and at the same time they are fragile natures and very romantic.
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EDITOR’S MOOD FOR FEBRUARY BLACK & WHITE MODERNIZED ART Why? One specific and exeptional painting caught my attention Louis-Léopold Boilly - «A Girl at a Window».This artwork inspired me to have an idea about creating black and white modern photographed art pieces in the style of painting. My main inspiration for styling came from the period in art named Rococo. Black and white art is rare, unusual, radical and I want you to familiarize yourself with this unique phenomenon.
Editor in chief Sofia Trunova
Louis-Léopold Boilly - A Girl at a Window
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PLAYLIST OF THE MONTH
K-Records - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Trap Beat Remix Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube (Moment Remix) Campanella - Paganini - [Hiphop] Remix Genie Money (Brahms - Hungarian Dance No.5 Remix) DC - The Nutcracker Remix (Piotr Tchaikovsky - Waltz of the flowers) Stravinsky - Petrouchka (Andrew Huckins remix) SNIPPIT
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hill in couture Photography & Styling: SOPHIE TRUNOVA Fashion: YAN STEPANENKO Make up: MARGHERITA Model: EKATERINA SAI 10
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Cap: NIKE Racket: YONEX
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Headphones: FRENDS Shoes: KENZO
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BY BELIEVING PASSIONATELY IN SOMETHING THAT STILL DOES NOT EXIST, WE CREATE IT. THE NONEXISTENT IS WHATEVER WE HAVE NOT SUFFICIENTLY DESIRED
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Face Mask: STARSKIN Headphones: APPLE
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ART HISTORY STUDENT REASON ABOUT BLACK AND WHITE ART «The best place to study art history is the Eternal city of Rome,» says the interviewee. Maria goes on dates to Caravaggio at her favourite museum Villa Borghese and lives next door to the most beautiful ceiling in the world - the Sistine Chapel.
How often do you go to museums, galleries, exhibitions for your projects? I can find myself in the museums, galleries, exhibitions almost every week. I have a lot of art analysis due to my major in art history and the best way to get everything in time is to go to exhibitions frequently. Have you ever seen a black and white picture of the 18-19 century? Unfortunately, I was not keen on this type of picture. However, I used to study Albrecht Durer’s prints circa the beginning of the 16th century. They were first black-white paintings that I have ever seen besides cartoons. 3. What is included in the process of evaluation/description of the picture? This is quite hard work. First, you should make a sketch in order to understand the composition and the logic of the painting. It is important for art historians because if you want to understand art, you first need to know how to make art. After that, you should analyze the subject matter and iconography. How the painted context refers to written sources. After all, that one should refer to style, painter and their outstanding features(e.g. Caravaggio and his work of light; Peter Paul Rubens and unique type of bodies). It may seem difficult for the first time, but if it is your 15th evaluation, art history students
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The painting «A girl at a window» by Louis-Leopold Boilly completed in black and white. Is it harder to evaluate and describe such a picture? It is harder. Because we don’t have a sense of colour, and I believe that colour is 30 % of the work. In this case, we should consider shadows/hues/highlights. How often do you pay attention to colour in the process of describing a painting? As it was said, colour may represent the more important thing. For example, if you see an Early Renaissance church with a ceiling painted in blue, that it is known that the artist was paid a lot of money. It increases the value and the sense of the nobility of the patron. We rely on the colour more often. Why do you think black and white art was rarely created in these centuries (18-19th)? I cannot give you an accurate answer, but I believe that it would break some art dogmas that artists fear to change. Does black and white art evoke completely different emotions or similar ones with multi-coloured ones? I am an old - school person and prefer polychrome paintings better than monochrome. But it is an interesting experience in our work.
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TRADITIONAL PAINTINGS BEHIND THE COLOR BY SPANISH ARTIST LINO LAGO
ino Lago was born in 1973 in Redondela, in Spain. He graduated from the Fine Arts University of Madrid Complutense University. Lino paints realistic oil portraits and scenes and adds an abstract intrigue layer with bright colour fields. His recent series, Fake Abstract, includes portraits of women, mainly obscured by solid blocks of black, pink or blue. The main characters of his portraits are girls and women of the art of the period of the 18th century. While looking at his works, one question arises: does the artist draw the whole portrait and then paint it in one colour or paint only detail of the portrait and add colour after? Lago’s masterpieces arrises the desire of touching artworks with the finger and trying to reveal other details of the picture .«Fake Abstract» confronts the minimalism of m monochrome with a detail m of a masterpiece.
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Photography & Styling: SOPHIE TRUNOVA Make up: MAXIM NETREBKO Model: KSUSHA GOLOVNYA
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Dress: INFANTA KARNAVAL Gloves: DEMIX Shoes: DR.MARTINS Necklace: VERSACE
Dress: INFANTA KARNAVAL Shoes: RICK OWENS Bag: STYLIST’S PROPERTY
Dress&Hat: INFANTA KARNAVAL Necklace: STYLIST’S PROPERTY Stockings: INTIMISSIMI
WHAT IS THE POINT OF BEING ALIVE IF YOU DO NOT AT LEAST TRY TO DO SOMETHING REMARKABLE?
Mehmet Geren is working as Freelance Hi-End Fashion & Beauty Retoucher with 8 years working experience. Mehemet’s Instagram account has more than 100 thousand followers at the moment. He perfectly demonstrates modern daily life issues through the connection with traditional art. And by doing this he attracts a large audience. Artist makes digital mashups of classic art masterpieces with modern daily life objects. do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read do not read Mehmet mixes art and fashion. About the importance of both fields in his life he answers: «I have been interested in fashion and advertising photography since 2006 and fashion has always been in my life. I always loved art. Every field. Fashion is my job, art is a pleasure for me.»
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Earrings: MARNI Shawl: LOUIS VUITTON
positivity is not just expecting the best to happen, but also accepting that whatever happens is for the best
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