I found out about New York artist Larissa Bates through Beautiful Decay. They have a great interview with her up on their site. But before I read anything about her I thought “wow, it’s like Neo-French Renaissance or some male obsessed Gainsborough. And then she mentions those influences in her interview. It’s nice to know sometimes that I’m not completely uneducated. What I really thought was that her work looked like Henry Darger trapped in the French Renaissance. There’s the same kind of oddness about her subjects and the way they fit into the background, mostly that they don’t fit at all. Although I can’t pin down why. Of course a lot of her other work doesn’t look like that at all. She’s just a giant enigma wrapped in bacon-y riddle. Figure it out for yourself after reading the interview.
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