Portraits find on Instagram

Social networks also affect artists and the way they create their own work. While Instagram is a complete waste of time for some, a young South Korean artist found a source of inspiration in him. Instead of sitting his portrait and painting him live, he finds ideas on Instagram. Opiimdy -year -old established painter Flour lee It can get hundreds of thousands of dollars for its work.

“I can view the endless number of people on the phone without ever meeting them. I wait to find something special in the photos offered to me by the algorithm, « she told Cnn.

It seems interesting to her how individuals on Instagram try to introduce themselves in photos, which they always carefully choose. When she encounters some of her who particularly likes, he sends a message to a potential portrayer asking him for the purchase of rights. At first, some of her requests have rejected, but since she is famous, she no longer has problems with approval.

Jason Haam From the Seul Gallery, which represents the artist, she says that her way of working and the absence of contact with portraits are proof of how much interpersonal relationships have changed. One of the greatest painting artworks, famous Mona Lisawas created completely differently as it had a big Leonardo da Vinci its model all the time in front of you.

Moka Lee never meets live with her models, but her works have achieved a great deal of international recognition, among others she presented herself at the renowned Art Basel Hong Kong exhibition. For a portrait I’m not characters mewhich shows a young woman with red -made lips sitting on the edge of the bed, at the end of last year, she raised more than $ 200,000 at a auction in Hong Kong, which is a record amount for an artist from South Korea, who has not yet turned 30. This week will be her portrait with the title Surface Tension 07which shows a young woman exhibited in Switzerland at a reputable art art fair.