"Some of the original concepts were let go because I couldn't execute them the way I envisioned them. I think that's just part of the process for a lot of artists though. Some ideas sound great initially, but have trouble connecting once they start. That's where "intuition" comes in and I just try to not overthink anything and work. I usually start with an initial plan and over time, instinct kicks in and it becomes a completely different painting."
"The point, however, is so much simpler than his acid-trip ruminations tend to suggest. For Norvet, painting is about taking elements that shouldn't belong together and yet presenting them harmoniously. This materializes in ways as fundamental as the merger of background content with the figure, as inscrutable as the juxtaposition of Saturday morning cartoon characters from the 1980s with classically styled memento mori objects, and basically everything between."
"The profundity that viewers tend to find in Norvet's paintings is a testament to the intricate detailing and technical prowess that he brings to each idea. The painter has long been described as a Renaissance-inspired satirist, a mish-masher of photorealism and cartoons into goofy-gruesome critiques of consumer culture or social media habits or other twenty-first-century concerns. The point, however, is so much simpler than his acid-trip ruminations tend to suggest."
Sean Norvet combines photorealism, cartoon imagery, and Renaissance-inspired motifs to create paintings that pair mismatched elements harmoniously. Intricate detailing and technical prowess produce visual profundity alongside playful grotesquerie and satirical commentary on consumer culture and social media. Norvet often begins with planned concepts but allows intuition and instinct to redirect compositions, restarting or covering areas that do not cohere. The work fuses background and figure, juxtaposes 1980s Saturday-morning cartoon characters with classically styled memento mori objects, and intentionally merges disparate visual languages to generate both harmony and estrangement on the canvas.
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