{"id":10242,"date":"2023-07-31T17:21:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T17:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/31\/qa-with-painter-arne-spangereid-makersplace-editorial\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T17:21:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T17:21:28","slug":"qa-with-painter-arne-spangereid-makersplace-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/31\/qa-with-painter-arne-spangereid-makersplace-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A with Painter Arne Spangereid | MakersPlace Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brady Walker: How do you think about your own creative license in a collaboration like this?<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Arne Spangereid: <\/strong>I felt a great degree of creative freedom in this collaboration. I enjoy working from photographs in general, and when the reference material is as interesting and beautiful as Olga\u2019s \u201cPauline\u201d is, it inspires me. Furthermore the curator of this collaboration, Animus, also encouraged me to feel free and take as much artistic license as I want. I imagine that I am like a musician doing a cover of a well-known song \u2014 it is just as important to put your own spin on it as it is to do the original justice. After all, being yourself is all that you can do.<\/p>\n

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BW: How did the process of painting the work change your perception of Olga\u2019s photo?<\/strong><\/p>\n

AS: <\/strong>The process of painting involves studying the subject at hand closely, and that in turn leads to new discoveries. Olga\u2019s photo immediately struck me as beautiful, mysterious, and with clear nods to the old masters of painting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Working from the photo for hours made me admire the incredible attention to detail and how much skill and effort must go into staging a shot like that. Take for instance the model\u2019s intricate hairdo \u2014 it must have taken hours to create. And how did she manage to get the ermine, an animal, to behave so perfectly with the model retaining her serene expression?\u00a0<\/p>\n

I began to imagine Olga as a movie director on a big set, with so many elements to get in place in order to make the scene spring to life.\u00a0 I feel grateful to be allowed to work from such a fabulous reference photograph.<\/p>\n

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