Ivan Alifan is an artist that I have
been following for quite some time because of his incredible paintings and
because I find it amazing that someone around my age can create such beautiful
artwork. For the most part, he creates portraits. His latest series of
portraits revolve around a figure drenched in a paste-like liquid. This liquid
covers the figure’s face creating porcelain like layer on them. These portraits
are a representation of how human beings encase themselves in this hardened
layer but by doing so are inhibited to move or truly exist as themselves. For
Alifan, the series explores the modern gaze and the transformation of an
individual. Many of the portraits use pale colors creating a ghostly look to
them.
Alifan was born in 1989 in Russia.
He is currently attending OCAD University in Canada for Drawing and Painting.
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