COME SEE THE OLD MASTERS 2.0
When I discovered the great artists of the past, it struck me how familiar their protagonists appeared.
They endured the same radical social changes we face today. The disruptions that the Enlightenment and Renaissance wrought on Medieval lives are etched in agony and ecstasy on their faces.
And I add our modern technology when they seem to be crying out for it. For example, Renoir's bathers who appear poised for smart phones to take selfies.
I'm Chris Fox Gilson, Miami's oldest living "emerging" artist.
It was exciting to be with Jason Perez' group at Red Dot/Spectrum 2023 during Miami Art Week.
did for my Virtual Reality enterprise Virtual Fox.
CHRIS FOX GILSON
Each piece in my OLD MASTERS 2.0 series is backlit with LED light to mimic the Masters' vibrant color palettes, with a dimmer to adjust brightness. Or on traditional stretched canvas, both in editions of 200.
And high-quality prints are also available.
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SEE MY NEW "OLD MASTERS OF AI" ON OPENING NIGHT OF OUR STEPPING OUT OF TIME
SHOW AT MIFA.
Miami International Fine Arts
Thursday, April 4, 6-9PM
Eat. Meet. Greet. Drink. Enjoy Live Music. And I Will Show You How To Create AI Art Yourself And Keep The Image You Make.
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Then Art Estate magazine named me 'Best Artist' of its Art Basel review issue.
I had my work at the Color Senses Gallery in Wynwood and a solo show at Mundo Arte Gallery in North Miami, featured in STROLL magazine and in the Artsy Shark Showcase for March 2024.
Please RSVP by writing "C" on the message line of the form on the Contact page and sending it.
OLD MASTERS 2.0: PREVIEW
SELFIES POND imagines the Bathers of Renoir’s masterpiece capturing a fleeting moment of self-discovery that might beg for another.
BOCACCIO’S PODCAST recasts the storyteller in the original Waterhouse to a podcaster who charms his audience with mixed media and Bose.
NOTE: Presently hanging in the SPOTIFY CORPORATE HQ, Los Angeles.
CHRISTINA’S WORLD OF PRIME enables Andrew Wyeth’s physically challenged protagonist to create her own little world in a bleak landscape through the miracle of Amazon’s instant gratification.
SALON BAND rocks Julius Schmid’s 1896 Viennese musicians featuring Franz Schubert at the piano with Garage Band software, electric guitar, oddly-coiffed drummer, and a tambourine for a favorite groupie.
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THE GARDEN OF METAVERSE imagines the Serpent corrupting the innocent in Meta’s digital walled garden with Extended Reality.
WHISTLER’S MOTHER’S JITTERBUG appropriates a sleeve from his self-portrait, so he can give his mother the peace of mind of the smart phone made for seniors.
THE INFLUENCER turns J. W. Waterhouse’s classic “Oracle” into a teenaged fashion influencer on TikTok who devastates members of her audience with her rigid rules, ("Yellow is so over.)
DALI’S SECRET SAUCE catches him using the generative AI platform DALL-E to create his best-known work with the prompt, "In the style of a master painter on LSD, paint a landscape with floppy clocks in weird positions."
AMERICAN OCULUS anoints the grim Depression-era farmer of Grant Wood’s classic with a Virtual Reality headset to see a 3D world finally under his control, while his wife looks on.
CATCH.COM from the new "Swiping With The Masters" series imagines that couples in the Old Masters famous paintings chose their partners on online dating sites instead of being paired through arranged marriages.
I DIDN'T START OUT TO BE AN ARTIST...