Camilla d'Errico's Waterfall of Dreams paintings
Camilla d'Errico has a solo show of new paintings opening Saturday, July 12, at the Copro Nason Gallery in Santa Monica, California. (The show will be hung adjacent to the Hi-Fructose group show, celebrating the magazine's third anniversary. More on that later!) d'Errico's exhibition is titled Waterfall of Dreams and the preview images are quite lovely. Along with twenty new works, a limited edition of 25 hand-embellished prints of "Yuuta," seen above, will be available. Camilla d'Errico's Waterfall of Dreams (camilladerrico.com)
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I was wondering if anyone could offer any insight into the popularity of child-like women (woman-like children?) and sexualized, doll-like girls in low-grow/outsider influenced modern art?
This isn't meant as a snarky comment or snipe. I'm genuinely curious about the phenomenon.
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Re: MattStaggs -- I don't know either. One mostly sees it in female-produced work, for whatever reason. It might have something to do with capturing the budding flower of the dawn of femininity... or it could be a conspiracy to sexualize children so that the sick perverts can indoctrinate kiddos.
Take your pick.
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Harsh. I like Camilla d'Errico's extremely weird headwear choices.
She does fantastic art.
She's up and coming and every new painting just keeps getting better.
I've seen lots of other artists attempt this genre, but few seem to be able to stay consistent. The fact she seems to sell all her paintings in an instant seem to say that there's people definitely liking her stuff
Check her site to see what I mean. Helmet Girl is a kicker
Matt, I posit it's popularity as theme on low brow art as a response to established styles and iconography: Camilla's style seems a turn left on old Hallmark cards and other naive-simple art. On the other hand, I think the oversexualization of children might be a response to our (adults) inhability to deal with them. The mainstreaming of manga -and hentai- and low brow related media are just the effects.
But then again, I'm not an expert, just have an opinions on everything.
Nice use of the color yellow, Camilla.
The Eyes, the Eyes! The large soulful round eyes of American kitsch painting is now almost universal. I'm sure some scholarly work has been done that explores this phenomenon, but it is growing tiresome. There is an art term I remember—Haptism—that defines the intentional enlargement and emphasis of a body part, like, understandably, the engorged sex organs in early Japanese pornography. But to what end all these big soulful round eyes? What's the message here? Sex with Bambi?
To elaborate, I think the rise in doll-like girls is a direct response to modern trends in Japanese stylization, mentioned by Marlborotestmonkey7, specifically, the strange "Lolita complex" rampant in many forms of Japan, a vaguely socially accepted pedophilia in most cases. Google search "loli" or "lolicon" and try not to puke on your keyboard.
Quite disturbing, yet growing in popularity-- a perfect criteria for garnering attention regardless of high or low art aspirations.
@#7
I think that's part of it.
Japanese culture has always put value on the beauty of youth. This isn't hugely surprising. Arranged marriages were the order of business until quite recently. If a 12 year old is considered old enough to marry, then obviously sexuality is part of it.
While such young marriages don't happen anymore, culture takes time to change. Women are still expected to marry before age 25. It's reflected in the language, as well. Beauty is connected to "spring," "youth," and "cuteness." Innocence and purity are also valued because they invoke a protective instinct
How can anyone know what is in an artist's imagination? As a very left-brained person I am always awed by what an artist can create. It's like they have a window to another world.
I don't think any of this has to do with pornography or icononography or making a statement of any kind. It's art, and it's wonderful.
As for the eyes, if you look at any manga or anime, you'll notice that this is the eyes are always huge and well defined. It's what characterizes the genre. Camilla's work is very manga and anime influenced as she is also a comic book designer.
Either way, she's one of the rising names in the alternative LA art scene (well deserved), and a solo show at Copro Nason attests to that!
@#4
Thank you! Keane. That's the name I was looking for. I was googling "big eye 70 doll kitsch" (and variations thereof) and getting a big goose egg.
Yeah, that's the first thing I thought - someone was retreading the 70s.
Do you suppose big-eye art depiction pre-dates the military occupation of Japan? I don't. Looks like old-fashioned self-loathing to me.
stratosfyr has nailed it: a modern preocupation with staying young.
But could it be that the artist is just contrasting the serpent-wisdom symbol with a girl-innocence figure as a way of expressing a youth "uncorrupted" by sin? And what about the butterflies? Do they represent the timelessness of the depicted conflict or it's ephemeral nature?
BTW, last night I saw Girls of the Playboy Mansion's Holly posing with a similar yellow snake -called Bananas- for a calendar.
Call it persistence of vision.
@#13 - Big eyes in manga were popularized mainly by Osamu Tezuka, who was influenced by Walt Disney. They caught on because they made the characters cuter and more expressive.
I have no idea what you mean by "self-loathing."
@#8 Buddy66
There is an art term I remember—Haptism—that defines the intentional enlargement and emphasis of a body part
And here I thought we just called them implants.