Saturday, May 23, 2009

Academic Art by Leibovitz

These two images are by the famous American portrait photographer Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz.

She made them for the Lavazza Calendar 2009.


Despite I got no special paintings as model for this images, I find them very typical in the style of 19th century academic painting.

There is the narrative arrangement, the perfect surface, the cool colors and the subjects: a couple on a bridge over the Tiber and Romulus and Remus in the Colosseum.

Sure that Leibovitz got more irony than these academic painters but anyhow it’s a kind of quotation, not of a special painting but of a style.
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