Acrylic/mixed media on Canvas
December 16, 2011
December 16, 2011
I painted this for my boyfriend, as a Christmas gift. It's a portrait of his favourite director, Jim Jarmusch. The background is torn squares of movie listings, intended to look checkered, as a nod to the apparent visual theme of his movie 'Coffee and Cigarettes'. Also, because use of shades, and colour, are used so specifically by Jim for mood in his movies; I tried to mirror that in how I represented him in this painting.
He is one of the most interesting portraits I've done, to date, as he is quite the interesting character. The more time I spent researching, and working on this painting, the more I understood why my boyfriend favoured him so much. His movies are fantastic, there's no doubt about that. But his personality! Even in photographs it was ever-present. I will likely revisit him as a subject, just to see if I can truly capture it. Very enticing...
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