As we all know, conventional painting is a picture presented on a flat surface, it is two-dimensional, even if it is a realistic portrait that uses the relationship between light and shadow, although it has a three-dimensional sense, it is also a conventional painting in the traditional sense. What is unconventional? 3D painting is unconventional painting, the artist uses the optical illusion to paint a painting like a real scene on the plane, known as 3D painting, but the visual effect of 3D generally needs to be seen at a specific angle.
With its novel, interesting and highly interactive characteristics, 3D painting has swept the world in just a few decades, giving birth to a large number of outstanding 3D painting artists, who have demonstrated the infinite charm of this art with wonderful works.
Whether painted on a wall, on paper, or on the ground, even if it is a larger work, the weight of a 3D painting is only the weight of paint. However, the artist Andrew Miles's 3D works are very heavy, because the "pigments" he uses are more special, not acrylic, not watercolor, not pencils, but solid screws.
A shirt work with a collar belt uses more than 5500 screws, calculated by 8.5 grams of an iron nail, 1000 nails are 8.5 kg, 5500 nails weigh nearly 90 pounds, plus the picture frame and other materials, an adult man is difficult to lift.
Painting with nails as paint and creating a unique 3D pointillist style that you have never heard of before, in Xiao Dai's view, It is not so much that Andrew Miles is creating a heavyweight 3D painting, but rather that he is "painting" sculptures with screws. From one point of view, the spiral created by the nails is like a three-dimensional pointill painting, but from another point of view, Andrew Miles's work is like a sculpture.
Whether it is painting or sculpture, Andrew Myers has played with creativity to the extreme, at least, the screws have been understood by him. Watching this artist's work requires some awe, because every piece of Andrew Miles's work is infused with heart. The meticulousness of the structure, the perfect arrangement of each screw, and the layering of depth can be seen in the energy and enthusiasm invested by the artist.
Although the material used is very hard, after all, it is a metal screw, but unexpectedly, in Andrew Myers's work, there is also a surprising sense of softness, a pair of boots with folds, which makes people intuitively feel that the leather surface of the boots is a soft material, and it is precisely with fine details that his work presents a harmony of rigidity and softness.
In addition to still lifes, Andrew Miles is better at using nails to represent the facial portraits of people, and now, let's enjoy the artist's hardcore artwork together.