Ode to Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
18 x 24 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs Shot in 2011 in New Orleans and Amsterdam Inspired by Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, 1863 Photography and acting are kindred s...
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Ode to Manet's Olympia
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in New Orleans in 2011, background illustrated by Marco Ventura Inspired by Manet’s Olympia, 1863 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth...
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Ode to Manet's Olympia
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in New Orleans in 2011, background illustrated by Marco Ventura Inspired by Manet’s Olympia, 1863 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth...
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Ode to Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
12 x 16 inches - Edition 3 of 7 with 2 APs Shot in 2011 in New Orleans and Amsterdam Inspired by Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, 1863 Photography and acting are kindred s...
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Ode to Whistler's Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in New Orleans in 2014 Inspired by Whistler’s Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, also known as Portrait of the Artist’s mother, 1871 Photography and acting are kindred spir...
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Ode to the Pinching D'Estrées Sisters
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 24 inches - Edition 3 of 5 with 2 APs Available framing $420 Shot in 2011 in Amsterdam Inspired by an anonymous artist of the Fontainebleau School’s Presumed Portrait of Gabr...
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Ode to Van Eyck's Self Portrait
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
, 1433 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). Their current photographic project, In Empathy We Trust, presents v...
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Ode to Van Eyck's Self Portrait
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
, 1433 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). Their current photographic project, In Empathy We Trust, presents v...
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Ode to Van Eyck's Arnolfini Marriage
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
36 x 26 inches - Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs Framing an additional $525 Shot in 2012 in Amsterdam Inspired by Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Marriage, 1434 Photography and acting are kindre...
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Ode to Van Eyck's Self Portrait
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in 2012 in New Orleans Inspired by Van Eyck’s Portrait of a Man (Self-Portrait), 1433 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld a...
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Ode to Velasquez's Venus at her Mirror
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in Amsterdam in 2011 Inspired by Velasquez’ Venus Looking in Her Mirror, 1647-51 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Ep...
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Ode to Velasquez's Venus at her Mirror
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in Amsterdam in 2011 Inspired by Velasquez’ Venus Looking in Her Mirror, 1647-51 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Ep...
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Ode to Aman's Creole with a Red Headdress
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana Inspired by Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans’ Creole with a Red Headdress, circa 1840 (Collection of the Historic New Orleans Collection, New O...
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Portrait of a White Woman
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in 2011 in New Orleans Inspired by Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait of a Black Woman, 1800 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth ...
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Portrait of a White Woman
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in 2011 in New Orleans Inspired by Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait of a Black Woman, 1800 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth ...
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Remaking Marat
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
36 x 24 inches - Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs framing is an additional $525 Shot in New Orleans in 2011 Inspired by David’s The Death of Marat, 1793 Photography and acting are kindr...
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Remaking Marat
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in New Orleans in 2011 Inspired by David’s The Death of Marat, 1793 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). ...
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Ode to Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in 2011 in New Orleans and Amsterdam Inspired by Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, 1863 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kl...
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$6,250
H 32 in W 36 in
Ode to Whistler's Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in New Orleans in 2014 Inspired by Whistler’s Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, also known as Portrait of the Artist’s mother, 1871 Photography and acting are kindred spir...
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Ode to Velasquez's Venus at her Mirror
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in Amsterdam in 2011 Inspired by Velasquez’ Venus Looking in Her Mirror, 1647-51 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Ep...
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Ode to Van Eyck's Arnolfini Marriage
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
30.75 x 24 inches - Edition 3 of 5 with 2 APs Already Framed Shot in 2012 in Amsterdam Inspired by Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Marriage, 1434 Photography and acting are kindred spirits ...
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Portrait of a White Woman
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in 2011 in New Orleans Inspired by Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait of a Black Woman, 1800 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kl...
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Remaking Marat
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in New Orleans in 2011 Inspired by David’s The Death of Marat, 1793 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). ...
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Ode to Manet's Olympia
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in New Orleans in 2011, background illustrated by Marco Ventura Inspired by Manet’s Olympia, 1863 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth...
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Ode to the Pinching D'Estrées Sisters
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in 2011 in Amsterdam Inspired by an anonymous artist of the Fontainebleau School’s Presumed Portrait of Gabrielle d’Estrées and Her Sister, the Duchess of Villars, circa 1594 ...
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$1,875
H 16 in W 10 in
Adam and Steve, Ode to Hugo van der Goes' The Fall of Man
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shot in Amsterdam in 2013, background illustrated by Marco Ventura Inspired by van der Goes’ the fall of man, 1470-75 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series b...
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Ode to Gauguin's Les Parau Parau (Conversation)
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 3, 2APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the history of art to challenge...
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Ode to Gauguin's Les Parau Parau (Conversation)
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 5, 2APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the history of art to challenge...
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Ode to Gauguin's Les Parau Parau (Conversation)
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 3, 2APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the history of art to challenge...
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Ode to Wyeth's Christina's World
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 2 of 3, 2APs Large Size: 24 x 36 inches STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the h...
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Ode to Grant Wood's American Gothic
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 13 inches - Edition 3 of 7 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the histor...
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Ode to Gheeraerts' Portrait of Elizabeth I
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 15.5 inches - Edition 2 of 5 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the hist...
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$2,500
H 24 in W 11.5 in
Ode to Suvée's The Invention of the Art of Drawing
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 11.5 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the hist...
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$1,875
H 16 in W 13.5 in
Ode to Rubens' Self-Portrait with Isabella Brant
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 13.5 inches - Edition 4 of 7 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the hist...
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$1,250
H 16 in W 7.75 in
Ode to Suvée's The Invention of the Art of Drawing
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 7.75 inches - Edition 1 of 7 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the hist...
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$2,500
H 24 in W 20.5 in
Ode to Rubens' Self-Portrait with Isabella Brant
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 20.5 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the hist...
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Ode to Gainsborough's The Linley Sisters
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 12.25 inches - Edition 4 of 7 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the his...
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Ode to Gainsborough's The Linley Sisters
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 18.25 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the his...
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Ode to Durer's Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 13.75 inches - Edition 1 of 7 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the his...
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$1,250
H 16 in W 14.25 in
Ode to Anguissola's Portrait of Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 14.25 inches - Edition 1 of 7 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the his...
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Ode to Durer's Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 20.5 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the hist...
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$2,500
H 24 in W 21.25 in
Ode to Anguissola's Portrait of Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 21.25 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the his...
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Ode to Gheeraerts' Portrait of Elizabeth I
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 10.25 inches - Edition 4 of 7 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the his...
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$2,500
H 19.5 in W 24 in
Ode to de la Tour's The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
19.5 x 24 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the hist...
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$1,875
H 13 in W 16 in
Ode to de la Tour's The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
13 x 16 inches - Edition 4 of 7 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the histor...
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Ode to Batoni's Virgin of the Annunciation
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 13.75 inches - Edition 1 of 7 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the his...
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Ode to Zoffany's Portrait of Belle and Murray
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
11.5 x 16 inches - Edition 3 of 7 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the hist...
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Ode to Zoffany's Portrait of Belle and Murray
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
17.25 x 24 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the his...
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Ode to Batoni's Virgin of the Annunciation
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 20.5 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the hist...
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Ode to Botticelli's Venus & Mars
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
6.75 x 16 inches - Edition 3 of 7 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the hist...
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Ode to Botticelli's Venus & Mars
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
10.25 x 24 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the his...
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Ode to Grant Wood's American Gothic
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 21 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the histor...
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Ode to Waterhouse's The Lady of Shalott
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
12.25 x 16 inches - Edition 1 of 7 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the his...
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Ode to van Dyck's Grimaldi
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 9 inches - Edition 2 of 7 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the history...
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Ode to Caravaggio's Bacchus
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 18 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the histo...
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Ode to Waterhouse's The Lady of Shalott
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
18.5 x 24 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the hist...
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The Milkman, Ode to Vermeer's The Milkmaid
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 20.5 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the hist...
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As the photographic duo E2, New Orleans natives Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien seek to remake images from art history to reflect their own experience of the contemporary world. Tackling icons from the great masters like Botticelli, Manet, Rembrandt, and Van Eyck, they recast instantly familiar images in a distinctly modern manner, breaking them free from centuries of historical context and placing them firmly in the present.
Kleinveld and Julien were introduced when each showed photographs in the traveling exhibition, “Before (During) After: Louisiana Photographers Respond to Hurricane Katrina,” for the storm’s five-year anniversary in 2010. They quickly realized a shared interest in matters of social justice and racial and socioeconomic inequality, which this natural and man-made disaster had brought into focus. Soon after, they began working together on In Empathy We Trust, an evolving photographic project seeking to examine contemporary social issues through the lens of art history.
The journey from the original germination of an idea to a completed E2 photograph is long and complex, often taking six months to a year. Both pre-production and the shoots themselves take place on two continents, as Julien lives in New Orleans while Kleinveld resides in Amsterdam. As such, the planning and execution of their shoots involve months of collaboration, with countless emails and phone calls exchanged. Kleinveld and Julien begin their process with online research and by visiting museums throughout the United States and Europe, searching for compelling images that resonate with our contemporary experience. They then seek to change the context of these images, replacing the original figures with contemporary stand-ins from all races and backgrounds, to more accurately reflect the diversity of the world around them.
Once an image is selected to be “remade with a twist,” they begin to find sitters (preferring artists, actors, and friends rather than models) representing a wide range of marginalized groups — African-American, Asian-American, LGBT — who have not seen themselves equally represented in media and art. After sitters have been selected, E2 begins the work of sourcing costumes. Their European shoots have involved costumes from the Dutch National Theatre in Amsterdam, Dutch costume maker Bert Nuhaan and Studio Pietro Longhi in Venice, while their hometown shoots in New Orleans are a bit less glamorous, seeing them employ sources varying from thrift stores to friends’ closets.
The photographs themselves are the product of careful planning and production rather than chance — more Gregory Crewdson than Diane Arbus. Each shoot is a carefully orchestrated production, featuring up to a dozen sitters, as well as lighting, costume, staging and more. Kleinveld and Julien’s work as E2 sees them each taking on a myriad of roles, from auteur to producer to subject. The finished product is a result of intense collaboration and teamwork, with both Julien and Kleinveld taking turns behind the camera. After the shoots are completed, the work of post-production begins, where extensive digital collaging of subjects and background is often required. They often employ artists such as Italian painter Marco Ventura to hand-paint the backgrounds of their images, further blurring the lines between both photography and painting, and present and past.
In a world that is becoming increasingly stratified along religious, cultural, economic, and ethnic lines, E2’s photographs apply a new interpretation of icons from the past, making them more inclusive for the multicultural world we live in. E2 does not seek to make demands, but to pose questions: why shouldn’t Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring be Asian? Why can’t the iconic image Washington Crossing the Delaware be adapted to show the first President as an African-American woman? For it is in these answers that we find the lingering doubts and biases that we often do not dare to acknowledge.
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(Biography provided by Jonathan Ferrara Gallery)
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Life becomes art in figurative photography. Shared moments are captured and history is recorded in images of people and their lives.
Figurative photography is often used to describe a kind of photography in which people are the subject. Early black and white photography of people can be a glimpse into a past century — witness the celebrated work of photographers such as Ansel Adams or lesser-known artists like Berenice Abbott, for example. The cultural and social standards of the time are captured in these figurative photographs.
Mid-century photos might show the life and fashions of the day, sometimes with the shared thread of humanity, joy and love. Indeed, figurative photographs can be a source of inspiration and wonder, speaking of common life experiences and beauty. Vintage photos of celebrities and iconic actors can be valuable keepsakes as snapshots of a bygone era.
Just as if you were bringing paintings, prints or drawings into your space as part of the decor, there are many ways to arrange your figurative photography. Large photos can be statement pieces in a room. Smaller photographs can be placed on bookcases or on compact wall spaces to add an artistic element to a living room or a bedroom.
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