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Simona "Victorian" :digital art:

Each man kills the thing he loves, yet each man does not die... - Oscar Wilde

About Me



Simona Vinati digital art @ TwilightRose
Born in Italy, lived (and survived) in (stinky and crude) Amsterdam, moved to wunderbar Berlin. Wanderer, dreamerand graphic designer, the nickname TwilightRose represents her artisticaldimension: images have got a strong emotional impact... Photography and computermanipulations combined to create 'digital' paintings linked somehow to an'Ideal Past'. Main influences: Romanticism, Victorian Aesthetic, Symbolism,Expressionism, Surrealism. TwilightRose also realizes Bands' artworks, andillustrations for Poems (Art4Art Manifesto). www.twilightrose.com

Limited edition imagesprinted on canvas at:
graphola.com

I accept commissions for: portraits, covers design, CD-artworks and merchandise design, flyers and posters, ...

My Interests

Victorian Era and Aesthetic, Beautiful things, Traveling, trekking, good food

I'd like to meet:

networking * like-minded Artists and Musicians * magazine interested in my images * anybody into 'retrò' styles BUT with fine taste (and NO burlesque/show off sh** please!) * nostalgic Victorians * Fairies&Elves wandering in this sad world

Music:

celtic, folk, dark folk, ethereal, medieval influenced music, neoclassical, danceable synthpop (but with intelligent lyrics)

Movies:

Directors: Fassbinder, Von Trier, Jeunet, Roy Andersson, Visconti, Bunuel ...
Movies: 'Dogville' by Von Trier, old German silent movies, 'Elephant Man' by Lynch, Der Himmel uber Berlin' by Wenders, 'Autumn Sonata'by Ingmar Bergman, The Hours, Being John Malkovich, (to be continued)

Television:

Arte sometimes
RBB sometimes
Little Britain series

Books:

lately inspired by: 'The diary of Vaslav Nijinsky - unexpurgated edition' edited by Joan Acocella, 'Slowness' by Kundera, 'Der Steppenwolf' by Hesse, 'The Hours' by M. Cunningham, 'News from Nowhere' by William Morris (I wish it was real...), 'S.C.U.M. Manifesto' by Valerie Solanas (I wish it was NOT real...), Oscar Wilde (always!).

Heroes:

Nova the cat
Jo-jo der Meerschweinchen (r.i.p. sigh)

My Blog

Photographed by Sabine Gruhn

Photoshoot in Sabine Gruhn Studio - what a delightful afternoonHow marvellous...it seems the winter ice is breaking up, and a more positive approach towards life brings me to meet new and wonderful p...
Posted by Simona "Victorian" :digital art: on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:44:00 PST

Photographed by Sabine Gruhn

Photoshoot in Sabine Gruhn Studio - what a delightful afternoonHow marvellous...it seems the winter ice is breaking up, and a more positive approach towards life brings me to meet new and wonderful p...
Posted by Simona "Victorian" :digital art: on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:45:00 PST

Mutter Corsage Photoshoot at Schloss Charlottenburg Garten

Mutter Corsage Photoshoot - in a rare sunny day in late Spring 2007I am glad to share these portraits of Stephanie and her fine and stylish creations...Please visit her website www.mutter-corsage.de ...
Posted by Simona "Victorian" :digital art: on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:44:00 PST

New Images: Autumnal influences...

Having figured out how this cyber-madness actually works, I would like to share my latest creations.> Inspired by my Soulmate, which was not so difficult to turn into an Elf ( ;) ):> Inspired by our l...
Posted by Simona "Victorian" :digital art: on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 06:39:00 PST