{"id":570,"date":"2025-07-28T17:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurentchani.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:30:33","slug":"concept-art-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/concept-art-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Concept Art The Mask of the Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concept-art-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concept-art-05-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Dreamlike black-and-white digital artwork showing a face with piercing eyes blending into swirling graphic patterns. Stylized feminine figures emerge in transparency, creating a fusion of reality and imagination envisioned by an SF novelist\" class=\"wp-image-571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concept-art-05-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concept-art-05-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concept-art-05-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concept-art-05.jpg 912w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This <strong>dreamlike image<\/strong> and <strong>abstract<\/strong> superimposed <strong>several levels of visual reading<\/strong>. At <strong>center<\/strong>, two <strong>piercing and realistic eyes<\/strong> dominate the <strong>composition<\/strong>, seeming <strong>observe<\/strong> THE <strong>spectator<\/strong> with <strong>intensity<\/strong> and <strong>mystery<\/strong>. Around them are deployed large <strong>flowing scrolls<\/strong>, to <strong>bluish hues<\/strong> and <strong>silver<\/strong>, evoking both <strong>strands of hair<\/strong> and <strong>moving waves<\/strong>, reinforcing the idea of <strong>flow<\/strong> and of <strong>transformation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">On the <strong>LEFT<\/strong>, A <strong>stylized female character<\/strong>, drawn as a <strong>fairytale silhouette<\/strong> or of <strong>comic strip<\/strong>, <strong>floats gracefully<\/strong>, wearing a <strong>large headdress<\/strong> or a <strong>fake<\/strong> which brings it closer to a <strong>allegorical figure<\/strong>. HAS <strong>RIGHT<\/strong>, another <strong>character<\/strong> is taking shape, more <strong>dark<\/strong>, seeming caught in the <strong>movement<\/strong> of the <strong>lines<\/strong>, almost <strong>sucked in<\/strong> by the <strong>whirlwinds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">These <strong>figures<\/strong> mingle with <strong>organic forms<\/strong> and <strong>decorative<\/strong>, creating a <strong>impression of in-between<\/strong> : THE <strong>real<\/strong> and the<strong>imaginary<\/strong> itself <strong>overlap<\/strong>, L&#039;<strong>human eye<\/strong> becoming the <strong>gateway<\/strong> between these <strong>worlds<\/strong>. THE <strong>contrast<\/strong> between the <strong>eye realism<\/strong> and the<strong>stylized appearance<\/strong> of the <strong>silhouettes<\/strong> strengthens the<strong>ambiguity<\/strong> of <strong>painting<\/strong>. L&#039;<strong>together<\/strong> gives off a <strong>mysterious atmosphere<\/strong>, <strong>poetic<\/strong> and <strong>slightly disturbing<\/strong>, like a <strong>dive into a dream<\/strong> to the <strong>border of the subconscious<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cette image onirique et abstraite superpose plusieurs niveaux de lecture visuelle. Au centre, deux yeux per\u00e7ants et r\u00e9alistes dominent la composition, semblant observer le spectateur avec intensit\u00e9 et myst\u00e8re. Autour d\u2019eux se d\u00e9ploient de grandes volutes fluides, aux teintes bleut\u00e9es et argent\u00e9es, \u00e9voquant \u00e0 la fois des m\u00e8ches de cheveux et des vagues mouvantes, renfor\u00e7ant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concept-art"],"blocksy_meta":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concept-art-05.jpg",912,512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concept-art-05-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concept-art-05-300x168.jpg",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concept-art-05-768x431.jpg",768,431,true],"large":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concept-art-05.jpg",912,512,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concept-art-05.jpg",912,512,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concept-art-05.jpg",912,512,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concept-art-05-18x10.jpg",18,10,true],"mailpoet_newsletter_max":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/concept-art-05.jpg",912,512,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Laurent CHANI","author_link":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/author\/laurentchojnowski970fe415b2\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Cette image onirique et abstraite superpose plusieurs niveaux de lecture visuelle. Au centre, deux yeux per\u00e7ants et r\u00e9alistes dominent la composition, semblant observer le spectateur avec intensit\u00e9 et myst\u00e8re. Autour d\u2019eux se d\u00e9ploient de grandes volutes fluides, aux teintes bleut\u00e9es et argent\u00e9es, \u00e9voquant \u00e0 la fois des m\u00e8ches de cheveux et des vagues mouvantes, renfor\u00e7ant&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4135,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/4135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}