Christopher Weyant

Christopher Peter Weyant (b.1985)  is an American artist who paints and composes figures. His primary interest involves the use of bodies as objects of visual design, with a focus more on spectacle and dynamic movement rather than realism. 

 

The artist has a singular fixation on the concept of refined, animated bodies as “beautiful cartoons”. This concept of the ideal, paired with the use of allegory and satire seeks to emphasize the stages of life: conception, birth, youth, adulthood, and old age, while straddling the borderland of myth. A recurring theme, the putti, often represent the soul, or the prime movers of the thoughts which prompt our actions as humans.

 

Dissatisfied with small scale painting, the artist desires to invoke a sense of grand theatricality and modern drama on a large scale, using symbolic narratives that place special emphasis on universally understood rites of passage through contemporary allegory.