Surreal Worlds
- Simone Maas
- 13 okt 2015
- 2 minuten om te lezen
Only a few years ago there was a big gap between the holiday pictures that ordinary people would take and the photographs of real professionals. Of course the quality of those two still isn’t the same but with a camera on every phone and hundreds of apps to polish your pictures, more and more is possible. Instagram is an example of such an app with which you can add filters to your photo and afterwards share it with a wide platform. According to statistics Instagram had 400 million monthly active users in september of this year. I am one of those users, just like all those people I like to take photos now and then and really think about the editing. Charlie Davoli is also one of those users, but a lot more thought goes into his work.
What is it? Charlie Davoli is an artist who takes photographs of the things that happen around them. He then mixes several photographs together and adds some mysterious or even weird elements. This way he turns his ordinary images into works of art that show surreal worlds. At this very moment 26.3K people follow him on Instagram where he shares his images. You can also buy different products with his photos on them, such as phone cases and t-shirts.
A few examples of his work:
Why is it cool? These photos show the possibilities that the internet, mobile devices and apps give people. The line between artists and ordinary people has become blurred because everyone has acces to the tools to produce this ‘art’. Beside that it also introduces us to a new way to spread artistic projects. You don’t have to buy a ticket and go to a museum to look at something this beautiful. Charlie Davoli shares his projects with the world by using a free app. I think this could to be inspiring to the social media public to start making pieces like this as well, because it is so easy. On the other hand it could also force artist to think about the way they are spreading their work. Maybe they should also unite with the new internet ways or otherwise fall behind.
I would link the surreal worlds of Charlie Davoli to the trend Togetherness & Inline because it resembles one of the many ways to use the internet, in this case for sharing art pieces. By using social media and editing apps artists make art more accessible and it ables them to reach a large public.
What sources did I use?
https://society6.com/charliedavoli?utm_source=&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=1298&coupon=7G3232KRP6YG
Always wonder,
Simone
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