Don't you hate it when you see in a trendy boutique a basic sweat with a print of a painting sold at 3-4 times its real value just because it's a designer piece apparently inspired by "art" (well, to put it more correctly it's a case of "art printed on fashion" rather than "fashion inspired by art")? I personally do. So I decided to do my own version of the "arty sweat".
I got two Mannerist paintings - "Doppio ritratto di amici (Double Portrait of Friends, 1523-1524) by Jacopo Carrucci, better known as Pontormo (1494-1557), and "Morte di Cleopatra” (Death of Cleopatra, c. 1525) by Giovan Battista di Jacopo, known as Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540) - printed on basic sweatshirts, then decorated them with a trim to give the tops a three-dimensional quality and added a white and a gold collar (well, for Cleopatra gold seemed more than just perfect...).
I opted for two paintings from Mannerism because, as pointed out in a previous post, rather than looking at realism, Mannerists focused on elegance, refinement and style, creating in their paintings artful compositions. In these sweats, though, Mannerism meets Baroque and Surrealism in a casual and very basic sporty top, embracing in this way contradiction between different art movements and styles and showing that, if designers can do it, then we can all do it (in a funnier and cheaper way...).
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