Young artists are taking inspiration (and customers) from the internet
(playfulpainter.blogspot.com)
Soft-focus Apple icons by Gautam Rao
Budding young artist? Tired of trying to impress Charles Saatchi? Turn your hand to making “geek art”: painting stuff off the internet and selling it to geeks.
Jeremiah Palecek is the Warhol of geek art. He started painting scenes from classic video games in a naive, smudgy style. After blog acclaim, he graduated to characters from popular YouTube clips, such as “dramatic chipmunk” and “Tom Cruise talking about Scientology”. Theyre all for sale, for about £50 each.
Lots of painters are having trouble looking beyond their laptop screens. Gautam Rao paints soft-focus icons from his Apple Mac (which are very easy to sell), while Handré de Jager paints scary, surreal parodies of video-game characters (which may be less so).
At the other end of the taste spectrum is Second Life Art , which employs unspecified “professional artists from around the world” to paint avatars from Second Life in all their pneumatic glory. If you’ve ever wanted a 4ft-wide picture of yourself as a fantasy superhero, you’ll need about £325.
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