Posted by Devin October 04, 2011

The explosive and vibrant artwork of James Roper is awe-inspiring. His work, for me, is a gorgeous blend of explosive anatomy and anime invoking natural disasters. In some cases it feels like a hyper color version of a vengeful deity smiting us with abstract forces of nature. Although the world is so bright and energetic I don't mind looking into the windows of certain doom. It also invokes a strong memory of the animated film "Akira" for me. Namely this scene which is burned into my brain.

KANEDA!

Mr.Ropers work may or may not be intentionally bubbling this to the surface for me but I'm happy it's doing so nonetheless. His explanation of his painting series is much more elegant than mine.

"The construction of each painting fuses disparate images from a variety of sources such as fashion magazines, animation stills, comics, the Internet as well as my own photo's and drawings. I predominantly 

choose images and try to create forms which I feel register a visual 'peak shift', a term given to the phenomena of 'neurological attraction' that appears in both humans and animals to an extreme 

characterisation of an object. Peak shift has been suggested by the neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran as one of the '10 universal laws of art'. 



This peakshift is present within advertising, Hollywood blockbusters, computer games, Baroque art and Haute couture fashion as well as in the extreme forms of body exaggeration found in bodybuilding and pornography. Japanese animation which also uses this technique has also informed my painting style. By isolating out what I see as the crucial parts of such images and collaging them together into the work my intention is to intensify these visual triggers even further so they form a sort of neurological hyperactivity."

Just had to share it with you peoples.

Via Behance

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