Original artwork description:

This picture is a portrait of famous male model Augusta Alexander, that I would call "the tear". I like its ambiguity, because he is one of the most handsome men, very active and agile, in a moment of melancholy, sadness, crying.

I am very inspired by the contradictions of this portrait. I use it in most of my oeuvres and always find new ways of looking at it. Making a collage out of different colored prints of one and the same picture underlines for me the conflict, the sadness, the ambivalence of this portrait. Different layers, scraps of paper, multiple colors show that we are composed of many small mosaics, some of which harmonize, cache or contradict each other.

The collage is made of Paper, Spray Paint, with a thin layer of Epoxy Resin for durability.

This artwork was inspired by cubism, Braque and Picasso, as well as street art. The beginning of the 20th century fascinates me, the 1910/ 1920s. The dreams, visions of modernity, psychology up to the surrealism.

IMPORTANT: None of my artwork is perfect, they are organic, there are drops of paint, tears in the paper, waves, glue residues. They are original!

Jerome Cholet is a prize-winning artist based in Germany whose paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Through his art, he endeavors to find, create, access, and inspire others with new perspectives. In the creation of his collages, Cholet most often employs imagery from newspaper covers and social media photographs. His distinctive pieces are completed with graffiti techniques using spray paint and sometimes resin.

Materials used:

Photo, Paper, Spray Paint, Epoxy resin

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