Scott Scheidly and his Pink Series

Colors are an important element in art and often they can easily change our perception of things by a single glance.

Feminine, ironic, pop, fun and a little bit childish are the usual characteristics people associate with pink, the color that the artist Scott Scheidly has decided to make protagonist in his works of art of a series called 'The Pinks'.
Scheidly made a collection of male portraits in pop surrealism style in which every detail changes meaning, thanks to a Baroque pink frame that modifies its interpretation. The contrast is even more irreverent when you face the portraits of those famous personalities from history and the negative symbols of our century like the weapons, rigorously covered in pink.
From Che Guevara wearing a modern pink tracksuit top decorated with badges to Napoleon showing off a tropical flower instead of the royal emblem. Amongst them there are also famous people from the world of entertainment like Boba Fett from Star Wars, or Skeletor and even the Pope, wearing a fashionable leopard stole.
If Francis Bacon used pink as an hint of his sexual identity and Boucher used it to symbolize the grace of Madame Pompadour, Scott Scheidly uses it to minimize the ideological aggressiveness that marked our century.
The color pink, simpering and graceful, malicious and relaxing, makes iconographies-symbol famously known for the power of their ideologies that destabilized history appear in all of their weakness.

For this reason pink becomes much more than just a color from the artist's palette, it's an interpretation of Scheidly's thoughts, almost vaporizing the authority of their personalities.
Scott Scheidly is an artist from Florida that started collaborating with different galleries after starting out his career as illustrator.

After the "Pink Series" made with acrylic paint, he already confirmed to be planning to work on a "Black Series" with female personalities.