VIEW IN MY ROOM
United Kingdom
Mixed Media, Digital on Canvas
Size: 22.5 W x 15 H x 0.7 D in
I delighted in this heavily carved red-brick façade of an old 'palace' building in the centre of Kathmandu, with its carved king and queen looking out over the street at the 21st-century passers by as they were greeting the city inhabitants several hundred years ago. I was amazed at how the colours went crazy when I started to play with the settings, given that the original looks relatively monochrome. The psychedelic hues create a flavour of celebration which the sheer exuberance of the carving serves to accentuate.
Original Created:2014
Subjects:Architecture
Materials:Canvas
Styles:Pop ArtPsychedelic
Mediums:DigitalPhotography
Mixed Media:Digital on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:22.5 W x 15 H x 0.7 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Have additional questions?
Please visit our help section or contact us.
United Kingdom
'Clashio Barbarani' is a sort of composite of elements of my given name and my (other) artist's name – I also have works on this site as 'Prem Shashi'. But mainly it reflects my unashamed love of brilliant colour and maximalist complexity, a taste that seems almost 'barbarian' in the context of the lasting fashionable flirtation with cool, neutral or dull colours and minimalism's 'terrible simplification' of form and composition. These photographic works took shape when I began travelling extensively in India and South and Southeast Asia, taking pictures of the fabulous old temples, forts, palaces, gardens and bazaars I revelled in on a relatively inexpensive compact digital camera. These sometimes otherworldly architectural realms evoked for me a vision of a glorious fairy-tale age of splendour and a more contemplative, aesthetic way of life. Wanting to conjure up yet more fantastical visions than the places themselves afforded me, I began to play around with the colour and exposure dials in the old Apple iPhoto app and in Photoshop, sometimes also adding in mirroring or/and layering or collaging effects. The resulting works often evoked my feeling of being in these magical places more strongly than the original natural photographs. I particularly enjoyed the painterly effects and the dazzling colour combinations that emerged seemingly randomly when I moved the colour and exposure settings around. For several years, I delighted in working through hundreds of my photographs, experimenting with them in this way, and building up an extensive gallery of fantastical architectural visions, often in brilliant psychedelic shades. I then began to work the same magic on my photos of some of the more fantastical buildings from Europe's architectural heritage, leading to a series of works with a slightly different though clearly related flavour. Unfortunately, for the most recent of these, I was reduced to working with a relatively low-grade mobile phone camera, so the depth and detail of what could be achieved is a little lowered, but still, some of the effects are intriguing. The works uploaded here are a selection of these photographic dreams, often reflecting an unashamedly maximalist aesthetic, as well as a few other works where I played explicitly with extreme maximalism to create almost impossibly complex layered works.
Thousands Of Five-Star Reviews
We deliver world-class customer service to all of our art buyers.
Global Selection
Explore an unparalleled artwork selection by artists from around the world.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Our 14-day satisfaction guarantee allows you to buy with confidence.
Support An Artist With Every Purchase
We pay our artists more on every sale than other galleries.
Need More Help?