Alex Russell Flint is a British artist born in 1974. He went
to illustration school and stumbled upon a postcard with a painting by Ted
James. He was so inspired that he enrolled in Ted’s school of art in France to
pursue painting. His work has been displayed internationally from London to the
States and to Africa.
Flint’s artwork is a blend between
modernity and traditional paintings. They focus on the female form as a modern
subject with traditional elements. The setting of these paintings is in a
former school house in France that he acquired. The school creates a mood
within each painting as it used to be a place where much activity and life occurred.
Flint has also been influenced by his great grandfather, William Russell Flint
who used art as a form of seduction.
I find his work appealing because
of he gives so much power to each female’s stare. I also love the relationship
the subjects have to the backdrops. They seem so cleanly but they are put
against a run down wall or room.
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