Amir H Fallah Paints with a Touch of Subversive Beauty
Susan Keefe — December 19, 2011 — Art & Design
References: amirhfallah & booooooom
Artist Amir H Fallah creates vibrantly wild bouquets that explore the beauty in the bizarre. A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, Amir H Fallah is a painter as well as sculptor, and the founder of the contemporary art mag Beauty/Decay. Wielding his subversive aesthetics, Amir H Fallah crafts tangled technicolor bundles of unnatural floral and fauna. Working in a style comparable to folk art, his images look like illustrations to a dark but beautiful fairytale.
The overlapping and overgrown composition of Fallah's composition lends a certain energy to the overall piece. The painters are beautiful, but their chaotic nature and bizarre subjects make Fallah's work more than just a pile of paint to swoon over. These raise conflicted emotions and a sense of unease, which is sure to keep his viewers gazing.
Vibrantly vivacious and strangely macabre, Amir H Fallah creates images that deserve to be stared at.
The overlapping and overgrown composition of Fallah's composition lends a certain energy to the overall piece. The painters are beautiful, but their chaotic nature and bizarre subjects make Fallah's work more than just a pile of paint to swoon over. These raise conflicted emotions and a sense of unease, which is sure to keep his viewers gazing.
Vibrantly vivacious and strangely macabre, Amir H Fallah creates images that deserve to be stared at.
Trend Themes
1. Subversive Beauty - Exploring beauty through an unconventional, dark aesthetic could disrupt the traditional standards of beauty in art and design.
2. Wild Bouquets - Creating chaotic, colorful floral arrangements that symbolize the intersection of natural and man-made worlds could open up a new market for unique and unconventional floral designs.
3. Bizarre Illustrative Art - Merging the styles of folk art and fantasy illustrations to create unique and surreal artwork could attract a new audience interested in the weird and unusual.
Industry Implications
1. Art - Artists and designers could incorporate subversive beauty and surreal elements in their creations to attract a wider audience who appreciates unconventional and boundary-pushing art.
2. Floral Design - Floral designers could explore using unconventional elements like unnatural flora and synthetic accents to create wild bouquets that capture the attention of a consumer market that values unique and unconventional design.
3. Publishing - Publishers could experiment with publishing bizarre illustrations that are inspired by both folk art and fantasy to attract an audience that values off-beat stories and imaginative settings.
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