WORKSHOP: ALL ABOUT BAUDELAIRE.
Editorial illustration.
Editorial illustration.
In April ‘14 i took part in a workshop at the MiMaster in Milan with Emiliano Ponzi about cover art for the italian publisher Feltrinelli.
We worked on Charles Baudelaire’s writing.
We worked on Charles Baudelaire’s writing.
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FLEURS DU MAL COVER ART.
This is one of my proposals for the Fleurs du mal cover art.
I tried to work on the idea of failure, ruin and impotence the poet is known to feel about this “evil” beauty, and how this beauty swallows him.
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ULTIMI SCRITTI COVER ART:
In addition In the first proposal I created a draft of other two proposals.
I wanted to create a link back to the last part of Fleurs du mal, where the poet hinted on the themes permeating his last works. The ship he follows in Le voyage could easily lead us through a symbolist poet’s life and end.
With the second one I took a less conceptual path.
I wanted to reconnect the visual cliches of the bohemian age with certain colours. A well-known fact about Baudelaire is his eccentric taste: he wore yellow gloves and his hair was dyed green, he had his windows fitted with pink glass, as a symbolic ironic distortion of his city, Paris.
