PORTRAIT LISA CUBIST Print

CREATOR OF THE STORYTELLING ART THE CONTEMPORARY ART MOVEMENT OF THE 21ST CENTURY With the evolution of the medias these past fifty years, movement and narration became primordial in our way of thinking the world. The painter’s eye turned as a camera : it no longer takes fixed pictures but narrative sequences. The assembly of juxtaposed plans gives rise to stories that express ideas which are not in any plan taken separately. The whole is greater than the sum of their parts. This definition applies to a new art movement, named “Storytelling Art”. It invites the audience within a story in motion which can be followed or appropriated. The aim of the storytelling art is to build a bridge between the horizontality of a book and the verticality of a canvas, taking the best from these two worlds… It’s a new style of art which uses the sequencing of comics and the space filling of the contemporary art. Like in movies, each plan used is characterized by a number of design features: scale, framing, camera angle view … "I like to mix the styles, the techniques and the ideas. I combine, juxtapose every kind of images, I remix the clichés of the popular culture and the contemporary imagery, I broach every subjects and melt with abstraction and figurative. I work from different techniques, drawings, stencils but also from different materials: the acrylic to play with color surimpositions and the oil with big impasto, searching for the balance between the texture, the details and the color range. Hence, this is at this artistic crossroad that I developed this very unic style..."