Product Description
A dandy in Spanish costume, painted in heat. The painting is new: a Neoclassical Pop Art original, a tribute to a nineteenth-century Paris costume portrait, keeping the pose and rewriting every colour around it. Orange turns the bolero jacket, the trousers and the swagger into pure colour, while the pose stays as cool as ever.
“Majo Style” is a new hand-painted Neoclassical Pop Art oil, paying homage to Édouard Manet's “Young Man in the Costume of a Majo”, painted in 1863 and held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This version keeps the pose and the costume and turns Spanish fashion in Second Empire Paris into a bold, modern statement of style.
Manet's younger brother Gustave posed model as this fashionable young Spaniards known as majos, wearing the same trousers and bolero jacket worn by model Victorine Meurent in Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada.
In 1804, at the dawn of the French Empire, only a few Spanish paintings were displayed in public collections in France. But, during the nineteenth century, French collectors and museum, acquired works by Spanish masters as El Greco, Zurbarán, Velázquez, Murillo, and Goya. The exposure to the Spanish Golden Age craftsmanship influenced the creation of French writers and artists, amongst Hugo, Delacroix, Degas, and especially Manet.
This painting demonstrates the strong influence of Diego Velázquez and other Spanish art over Manet's artwork. It was first exhibited at that year's Salon des Refusés and admired by most critics, although some complained that the Majo lacked psychological expression.
Bravado for a living room or a dressing room.
A collectible original artwork. Created by the Neoclassical Pop Art studio as an original contemporary painting. A collectible statement piece where the old masters meet pop culture, made for true art lovers.
- Creator : Neoclassical Pop Art
- Year of Creation : 2018
- Dimensions : Available in 5 sizes, from 11"x14" (28x36 cm) to 48"x60" (122x152 cm), or a custom size on request
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Movement & Style : Neoclassical Pop Art
- Hand-painted in oil on stretched canvas
