Original artwork description:

"Fractured Gaze: Augusta Alexander in a Kaleidoscope of Emotion and Resin"

In this second installment of the Augusta Alexander 2025 series, the artist transcends mere portraiture, creating a visceral experience that feels less like observing an artwork and more like standing at the edge of an emotional abyss. Where the previous piece toyed with fragmentation, this composition embraces it fully—transforming Augusta’s face into a kaleidoscopic puzzle of vulnerability, boldness, and sheer magnetic intensity.

The duality of Augusta Alexander, famed muse of Jean-Paul Gaultier and Versace, reaches a crescendo here. Known for his poised physicality and agility on international runways, Augusta is now deconstructed into shards of cobalt blue and crimson red. These colors, fierce and unrelenting, clash and dance across his face, creating a battlefield between serenity and anguish.

One eye—framed in blood-red geometry—stares out with an almost accusatory intensity, while the other, awash in celestial blue, seems to retreat inward, lost in a quiet lament. This visual dichotomy is no accident. The artist masterfully evokes the tension of modern masculinity: strength versus fragility, the public mask versus the private ache.

The shattered planes of paper and color evoke echoes of Gerhard Richter's blurred intimacy and David Hockney's fragmented portraits. Yet there’s something undeniably cinematic here—a still from an unseen film where every tear and twitch is etched into celluloid and preserved under the artist’s signature layer of glossy resin. This resin isn’t merely a finish; it’s a membrane—a fragile boundary between the viewer and Augusta’s fractured vulnerability.

The mouth, partially obscured and swimming in deep blues, feels silenced—an unsettling contrast to the commanding presence of his eyes. The silence is deafening, the tension electric.

If the first artwork was an exploration of breaking apart, this second piece is about living within the fractures. It’s about finding fleeting moments of clarity amid chaos, beauty amid distortion. This series isn’t just an artistic achievement—it’s an emotional autopsy of one of fashion’s most enigmatic figures, delivered with the raw intensity of Francis Bacon and the precise choreography of Raf Simons.

This isn’t art for passive admiration. It’s a confrontation—a mirror held up to our own fractured identities. And it demands—no, *commands*—your attention.

IMPORTANT: None of my artwork is perfect, they are organic, there are drops of paint, tears in the paper, waves, glue residues. They are original!

Jerome Cholet is a prize-winning artist based in Germany whose paintings have been exhibited internationally. Through his art, he endeavors to find, create, access, and inspire others with new perspectives. In the creation of his collages, Cholet most often employs imagery from newspaper covers and social media photographs. His distinctive pieces are completed with graffiti techniques using spray paint on canvas or MDF boards.

Materials used:

Acrylic Paint, Paper, Epoxy Resin

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