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Alexa Meade: Painting Analysis

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Alexa Meade has been one of the biggest influences in the way I view art, and the world in general. Meade is known for painting 3D scenes to look like 2D paintings, in a backwards Trompe-L'oeil style. This style of painting requires not only the ability to capture shadows and highlights with paint, but also the ability to photograph these scenes. Her pieces are more than just paintings , because she uses photography skills to capture her temporary paintings on people. Alexa Meade grew up in Washington D.C, and graduated from Vassar College in 2009, however, her degree was in political science, which clearly has nothing to do with art in any sense. She never attended any formal schooling for pa inting or art in general. In a 2011 interview for …show more content…

In this collaboration, Meade and Vand filled a small pool with milk, then Meade painted Vand, and had her pose in the milk pool. One of the many complications with this project, was the milk washing the paint off of Sheila before the photos were taken. Rather than constantly repainting parts where the paint had washed off, Meade instead hid the parts in milk. I n most situations, hiding an imperfection is considered an elementary act, but in this case, it created a sense of mystery in the photographs, which overall added to the project. Because the project was dependent on how the milk moved, Meade had to capture the moments before they could be washed away, adding a sense of implied movement to the photographs. One of my favorite of Alexa Meade’s projects is her “Art on the Streets” project. In this, she uses pre-existing street art or graffiti as a background for her painted people. In most of the photographs, the models are captured mid -jump, and because they are painted to look two-dimensional, they look as if they are painted onto the walls as well. In this project, you can see Meade’s inspiration from the s treet art, and her additions to them

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