Sibyl Hatches in Mid-air (2022) Digital Arts by Paul Minotto

This portrait is taken from "The Last Judgement", the fresco located on the wall behind the altar of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
It was designed and realized by the Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti between 1533 and 1541.
It depicts the Second Coming of Christ as well as the final and eternal Judgement by God on all humanity according to the Christian religion. Altogether there are over 300 figures, with nearly all the males and angels originally shown as nudes.

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Oil painting, ink drawing and collage elements are integrated in a digital environment with digital painting/ drawing. Representational/ realistic and non representational/ abstract images flow from one to the other, gradually or abruptly, in an abstract, undefined space.

This undefined space lends a sense of timelessness even though there is activity taking place.

Not to be taken too seriously, there is an element of absurdity/ humor always at work. DADA painting upgraded for the 21st century.....

Usually a picture starts off with an image of a person, or with some other found image, but not always. A picture could start with an abstract gesture drawn with oil stick on canvas. A person may come to mind and the beginnings of a portrait are set in motion. Or, if a landscape scene is suggested, a collage element may lead the progress of the picture. Or, a portrait is drawn in ink on paper, brought into the digital environment and worked on altering it digitally, adding collage or fragments of oil paintings which are all then altered, fused, cutup, distorted, smudged, and bastardized in various ways.

The portrait then becomes an interplay of painted (analog/digital) gestures, drawn sketches, and/or collage elements usually old master paintings or fragments of photos.

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