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Other details :
Artwork on cardboard. Framing on request.
Dimensions :
15.7x11.8in
About this artwork
The work, entitled "Boys Don't Cry", proclaims an often silenced truth: men cry too. I wanted, through the choice of colors, to reinforce this message. Black, the symbol of strength and masculine virility, is subtly enhanced by touches of white, the color of purity and vulnerability. Orange-pink, a shade often associated with femininity, delicately appears on the lips and eyelids of men, blurring the boundaries of gender. More than a simple portrait,… "Boys Don't Cry" is an invitation to break stereotypes and accept the free expression of emotions, whatever they may be. The work confronts us with our own sensitivity and encourages us to let go of the dictates of society.
Lylo is a self-taught painter born in 1986 in Saint Petersburg, of Congolese and Bulgarian origin. She grew up in France, where she built her pictorial language on her own — with only one year at the Bellecour school as a starting point, and the rest through practice, observation, and persistence. Her subjects are strangers, archetypes — the angel, the father and child, the woman on the subway, the man who looks up. Figures that everyone has already passed by without really looking. Lylo looks at them. Her technique is inverted: she paints light rather than shadows, working white over black to bring forth faces. The Black figure is not a political subject for her—it is something older, more internal. A mystical presence she seeks in each canvas, somewhere between her heritages.
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