Rafael Ochoa‘s sumptuous digital paintings are made using a unique rendering process he has developed over several years.
Focusing on select elements drawn from images of Old Master paintings that he finds online, Ochoa creates new works that infuse the beauty of historical art with a subtle postmodern flare.
Beyond their captivating appearances, Ochoa’s images delight through the unorthodoxy of his process, which produces results decidely unlike most digital art. Rather than allowing what software plug-ins and filters can do to provide the direction, Ochoa searches for the tools that will create the brushstrokes he is after.
Ochoa mines the fertile territory of traditional notions of beauty. Fair women in languid poses, accompanied by exotic birds, evoke the decadence of the Rococo era of pre-revolutionary France.
Platters of rich food and vases overflowing with blossoms hark back to the European still-life tradition, in which painters immortalized the material accouterments of the good life. Ochoa’s works balance traditional references with postmodern awareness.
Images courtesy of Rafael Ochoa
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