Given the rising popularity of all things steampunk, I’m pretty sure Alessandro Maffioletti’s vintage imagery collages are going to go viral on the Web.
They really are quite lovely surreal constructions.
Get your fill of gears, instruments, creatures and technology of days gone by, spliced together in odd harmony here.
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5 responses to “Alessandro Maffioletti”
what a rip off from a Finnish illustrator Inka Järvinen. I’ve been her fan for so many years and it’s a shame that some one is ripping off her style like this.
http://www.inkajarvinen.com/
Oh wow! Thanks for calling pointing this out!
I don’t really see any connection, they just use the same tecnique and I know a lot more artist that use it.
I agree with Jack. I don’t think it’s a ripoff at all.
I have been heavily into high contrast schizo and collage art for many years and have seen work in this vein although not popularized until more recetnly in many “outsider art” collections and publications dating back to the 60’s before either artist was creating art like this. Even look at some of the work Winston Smith has done since the 70’s or the (B&W) work Peter Lewis has been doing for 20 years. But you know what I can tell all their styles apart.
I don’t think any of them are ripoffs we are all inspired by something, and 99.99999% of art is stemmed from something that already exists. I feel like calling Alessandro Maffioletti’s work a ripoff is just like calling all impressionists ripoffs of Monet. (who’s work Impression Sunrise is the namesake of the artistic movement)
It’s kinda like someone without the knowledge of the genre saying all punk or all rap sounds the same of course it doesn’t but it shares traits.
Thanks for chiming in with such a thoughtful response. I believe that although *some* artists “rip off” others (I’ve particularly seen this on craft sites like Etsy), we can’t assume that similarity necessarily indicates copying. There are certain aesthetic themes that run through all of humanity…things that seep into the subconscious…things that inspire us. I feel all of this should be fair game in art. Restricting oneself to creating things that “haven’t been done before” would seriously stifle artistic development.