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Corne_Akkers
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ArtistCorné Akkers
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Typeimage
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Dimensions21 x 29.7 x 0.1cm
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Price$1600
Website link: https://corneakkers.com/neo-deco-10-03-25/ Print: https://corneakkers.com/print-neo-deco-10-03-25/ Printable: https://corneakkers.com/product/printable-neo-deco-10-03-25/ Gjon Mili This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco - 10-03-25’ is dedicated to the impressive work of Albanian photographer Gjon Mili. Recently...
Website link: https://corneakkers.com/neo-deco-10-03-25/ Print: https://corneakkers.com/print-neo-deco-10-03-25/ Printable: https://corneakkers.com/product/printable-neo-deco-10-03-25/ Gjon Mili This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco - 10-03-25’ is dedicated to the impressive work of Albanian photographer Gjon Mili. Recently I discovered his photographs online searching for art deco-type female forms in sheer dresses. Flabbergasted I was. What a lovely feel for hefty tonality! Enough reason to honor him and take one of his photos as artistic motif. It’s a picture from 1945 and apparently it served as a cover photo for Time Magazine back then. It’s almost as if this image marks an entire era coming to an end. Not coincidentally coinciding with the ending of World War II you’d say. Strolling throug his work I also saw later work from the 1950s. A whole new ball game. Much lighter photography. Equally impressve but I’d trade them in for the chiaroscuro play of light an