Dorian Gray's portrait is a timeless classic. The entire production is made up of modern pieces, cutaway created by me, a fast fashion blazer, a muslin scarf and the contemporary TOMBOY look. The Victorian color palette was the touch of charm that we decided to bring to the photos. The painting was created exclusively for the editorial, "the portrait of Dorian Gray". The painting technique is watercolor on 100% cotton paper. The worst that can happen in a portrait is the ink smearing, dripping, dirtying ... these visual elements were fundamental to give Dorian Gray this idea of "degradation". Hope you like!
Photography: Dimitri Lociks
Production: Stephanie de Paula
Edition: Stephanie de Paula
Model: Stephanie de Paula
Production: Stephanie de Paula
Edition: Stephanie de Paula
Model: Stephanie de Paula
“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The painting technique is watercolor on 100% cotton paper. The worst that can happen in a portrait is the ink smearing, dripping, dirtying ... these visual elements were fundamental to give Dorian Gray this idea of "degradation"
