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Nonchaloir
“The faces are rendered carefully and deliberately, with each beautiful feature and gauche flaw carefully observed, like those of Caravaggio’s punk-angels.”
— The New York Times
Young artist Paul P. has become internationally known for his haunting paintings and drawings of the faces and figures of young men, all sourced from pre-AIDS gay magazines. The artist mines this huge archive of figures and reimagines these young men with the aesthetic vocabulary of late nineteenth-century art.
Nonchaloir , the artist’s first monograph, collects over 100 of these stunning portraits in a small, intimate volume. P.’s subjects and their poses, at times languishing, wistful, or weary, are imbued with references to famed painters James McNeil Whistler and John Singer Sargent. Even the title itself is nonchaloir is a defunct French word suggesting repose and resignation, and is found in works by Mallarmé and Baudelaire.
Nonchaloir , printed in a limited first edition run of 2,000 copies, comprises an achingly romantic and sublimely heartbreaking journey through eras now long gone, all the while venerating history and beauty.
— The New York Times
Young artist Paul P. has become internationally known for his haunting paintings and drawings of the faces and figures of young men, all sourced from pre-AIDS gay magazines. The artist mines this huge archive of figures and reimagines these young men with the aesthetic vocabulary of late nineteenth-century art.
Nonchaloir , the artist’s first monograph, collects over 100 of these stunning portraits in a small, intimate volume. P.’s subjects and their poses, at times languishing, wistful, or weary, are imbued with references to famed painters James McNeil Whistler and John Singer Sargent. Even the title itself is nonchaloir is a defunct French word suggesting repose and resignation, and is found in works by Mallarmé and Baudelaire.
Nonchaloir , printed in a limited first edition run of 2,000 copies, comprises an achingly romantic and sublimely heartbreaking journey through eras now long gone, all the while venerating history and beauty.
156 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 2007
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December 26, 2009
Simply Beautiful.
Consider the beauty of walking home at night, or perhaps biking on your brand new bike, the rain doing it's rainy thing, the pavement recording light, I don't mean to rhyme, and most of all the peaceful stillness of a busy city. Surly that partly conveys the momentary beauty of these boys. Consider the feeling of getting home and wishing the walk was longer, to prolong ones calm, but knowing that to walk around the block would be pointless and the moment is gone gone gone.
well, there you have it.
Consider the beauty of walking home at night, or perhaps biking on your brand new bike, the rain doing it's rainy thing, the pavement recording light, I don't mean to rhyme, and most of all the peaceful stillness of a busy city. Surly that partly conveys the momentary beauty of these boys. Consider the feeling of getting home and wishing the walk was longer, to prolong ones calm, but knowing that to walk around the block would be pointless and the moment is gone gone gone.
well, there you have it.
September 28, 2012
This is an art book so I'm not sure if it counts as "reading." Although, I did read the foreword by Collier Schorr...and I absolutely adored it. The paintings in this collection are all so wonderful; all of the portraits are of young gay men, and they are done exquisitely. All of the pieces are untitled, something that I found interesting. I would have loved to have seen titles, it would have given the paintings even more meaning than they already hold; however, the having all of them untitled makes an impact all its own. Lovely.
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