Juxtapoz readers will probably already be familiar with the paintings of LA artist Kris Lewis, but I figured since I was already talking about the renewed prevalence of portraiture, now would be a good time to familiarize the rest of you with Lewis’ work. I would call his work protraiture for sure, but skewing more into Romanticism than many others, and incorporating subtle simplifications and distortions of form. And in many cases his compositions are the point of focus rather than the mood of his subject (the expressions are still amazing, though). I can really see that each subject became a fully realized personality to him, they have stories beyond the poetic moment that Lewis has captured them in. That in itself is a different way to bring movement into an otherwise static artform. For those of you that might think im writing a little too formally here: Shit’s tight, peep it, cop it if you’ve got the skrilla. Even hustlas gotta feel love sometime. See, brains and cool, not mutually exclusive. Don’t judge me.
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