My favorite is the one with the face with comic book images

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this is a fun game.

I do like some of her work. It would be very cool to get a commissioned piece from her using ones own partner as the model, now that would be very special, until you brake up of course.  I think most are thankful SC moved away from what ever that is above. Maybe she did that before she was a mum and didn't mind a bit of mushroom soup from time to time?

I'm always a little amused when people take criticism of an artist personally.

As far as Sandra Chevrier goes, I have nothing against her. She seems like a very nice person and I bought one of her first prints. She is not, however, beyond critique.

When you look at the evolution of her work, it does not suggest a deeper meaning to me. She was painting something very similar to Marion Bolognesi and was told she should change what she was doing. Her response was to add a layer of comic book images to the face.

On the one hand, you might choose to believe she's making a statement on unrealistic beauty standards society imposes on women and that they're expected to superheroes through their beauty. On the other hand, you might choose to believe she thought, "hey, this looks cool and no longer looks like Marion Bolognesi."

Personally, I think she stumbled on something that looked cool and tried to give it a deeper meaning after the fact.

I'm a big fan of Sandra and own a couple of pieces but I think it's fair to say that this style will eventually have to evolve. I think we're already seeing Whatson starting to struggle from the repetition of the same concept.

Invader is actually quite interesting. He's had a central concept but there is variation in his work- mainly street.

This is all a bit silly considering she has only been doing it for around 2-3 years properly.
people are so impatient, give it a chance ffs.

So those who are not keen won't be picking up the next print then.?

£10 says you do

We are in a bubble here, it is a forum so i dont see anything wrong with talking about someone.

borondo is getting loads of hype and i dont think he is particularly talented compared to someone like matt small. It is emporers new clothes on borondo for me and How far can that style go? Painting bigger and bigger walls with portraits - seems like the new stencil art.

...But that is my opinion and im not questioning his 2-3 year outlook on the borondo thread. I partly feel alot of this stuff is driven by the new popping up in the last few years from collectors/flippers of the expresso bean crowd in the US. More than half the stuff gets sold back to europe these days from there. Its those people that fuel the hype with pricing.

certain staff from POW used to shill banksy prints on ebay, and thats how that started.
back in the day on here, people hyped as much as they do now.

popularity is always based on money for some reason. Well, you know the reason.

I think its fair game to question his rise as well, as you mentioned you can correlate these 2 artists rise over the past couple years even the past 6 months ahead of Borondo's upcoming London show. Those that are wise will question the relevance of his work to the prices being asked. I think buying a print is neutral in a way and not a good way to gauge overall value, I think when original works on canvas hit  5 figures you need to start asking these questions for any artist that is hot. There is no right or wrong answers I have shown and sold Borondo's work in the Past and I believe in his work for different reasons but he is not outside general growth patterns that need to be looked at, sometimes advisers are great people to help artists manage this pivotal point in an artists career. Some make great decisions, others take the money. Well see where both artists end up, but both are not immune to being critiqued.

Lucky f**ker, went in for that one and it had gone.

good pickup.

a certain someone on here has just picked up her first all hand drawn canvas.
beauty as well. Not me, but im sure they will post in due course

One is enough for me. So I'll take that bet.

And for what it's worth, what she says her art means and what you said it means are two entirely different things. So you might not want to be so condescending when you tell people they don't know how to interpret art.

So anyway...

Where did inspiration come from for your Comic Book cages?

Let me start by explaining how my ‘Cages’ series came to life, which was about one year ago. I used to work in a really controlled and hyper realistic way. One day, I was doing crafts with my kid, and just started painting with loose and heavy textures of paint on some of my old drawings of women portraits. I found that there was something really interesting there. And for the past year, I’ve been working on this idea, trying new things, and playing with it. The comic book collage was another idea that was born by accident. I was working on a DIY project by covering one of my Ikea dressers with comic book pages but it broke during the process. I had no idea what to do with all the comics I bought, but by recycling them on to my art, the idea of creating these different cages came to life.

All your works seem to feature women as the subjects. Is there a reason for this? What purpose does that serve?

My Cages are made with brash imposing paint or comic books which mask the identity of a female human and symbolize the struggle that women go through every day. Being trapped within the expectations of false beauty and perfection, women are held captive by the limitations forced upon them by society and culture. This series is meant to show how corrupted our perception of beauty has become. Our modern ideas of what we consider beautiful has become distorted and we fail to see what truly makes women beautiful by putting them in these prisons of identity.

chasseurmagazine.com/2013/08/29/chasseur-interviews-artist-sandra-chevrier/#

I'm sorry, but what you said and what she said are two completely different things. No point arguing over it. I don't think a single person is going to read what you wrote and think you really meant to say her art is about unrealistic beauty standards society places on women.

And if you read what she said in its entirety, the comic books were an accident. It started as a common craft project. People have been covering all sorts of things with comic book collages for decades.

There wasn't a deep meaning behind it or a moment of profound inspiration. She simply had a bunch of cut up comics laying around, slapped them on a canvas and thought it looked cool. You can't really tell collectors that and expect them to to pay thousands of dollars for a canvas, so it helps to frame it in a more profound light.

Yes, that's what you said. That's not what she said. The comic books do not represent the subject's soul. According to her, they represent society's unrealistic expectations of female beauty.

If you want to be a condescending little p*ick to people, it would help to have the first clue what you're talking about.