Description of the set
Title: My personal pin-up calendar
Year of creation: 2015
Technique: digital art
Each month Particules Créatives customizes the design of his Social Media profile. The constraint was to create a work each month, during 12 months on a theme.
As I work on women’s representation, the pinup calendar seemed obvious for the annual theme.
The pinup is a very personal theme for me, because I’ve always been fascinated by Gil Elvgreen pictures. His pin-ups seemed to be extracted from a Tex Avery cartoon. His pictures have always drawn me like a moth to a flame. For me, Gil Elvgren’s pin-ups represented the female beauty ideal.
Later, I realized those women were modified to look more beautiful, they were teasing and they were all white.
Whatever it is, the pinup was a personal story, a striking beauty which it was necessary to me to seize.
Thus, I decided to replace her in her context, the calendar. Yet the calendars of my childhood possessed proverbs. For a perfect reconstruction of my childhood, I needed proverbs. I decided to create mine and to mix them with the truths one. Create my proverbs was to insert me more profoundly into the creation of the supports of my childhood. So not only I reconstructed the past, but I took part in it.
However, Gil Elvgren had his wife. I thus needed my muse. I found my muse in a young student who lent herself with talent to the play of the doll. Combed, made up, my pinup took life.
The photography consisted only in creating a medium. The work was done in Photoshop, where, as Gil Elvgren, with his brush I created an image.
The photography consisted only in creating a medium. The work was done in Photoshop, where, as Gil Elvgren, with his brush I created an image.
I created the lie to translate the truth of my internal world. As the personal diary redraws the life of a person this calendar redraws my year of 2015. Realized every month it illustrates my formal questionings month after month.
My artistic approach consists in expressing the invisible to find the idea of the truth and ideally a passage calmed towards the death. My fascination for the pinup reflects my fear of the death and the stain of the beautiful. Nevertheless the maybe eternal beauty if it is seized.
I so was seduced in my childhood by the beauty of the woman by Gil Elvgren. However, what I took for the truth, the beauty of a woman, was only the creation of a man. Did he see his wife in this way or did he so fantasize? If the look of this man could not be deciphered, it was necessary to me, from the lie to clear the real emotion of my childhood.
I was able so in the course of the months to release myself from the burden of a beauty which had never existed.