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Cassio Valn

by Moxiane

”Jush… jussht hold shtill there for a shecond. Both of you.”

- Cassio Valn at work

”Valn has achieved a depth of character and feeling hitherto unsurpassed in his work. The strange lines and nonsensical angles force the viewer to look beyond the painting to find the very meaning of his work.”

- Yuren Opilen, art critic

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An example of the way that life in Nexus can bring one to prominence with meteoric speed, Cassio Valn is the latest darling of the Cinnabar and Bastion crowds, his surreal work sparking discussion, debate and not a few arguments amongst those who fancy themselves critics and trendsetters amongst the Nexian upper-crust. In this crowd Valn’s habitual drunkenness is seen not as a weakness but as an interesting quirk, and he often leaves the parties that he finds himself being invited to (such as a recent event at the Bower of the Mask unconscious and in a barrow.

A long-time inhabitant of Tellnaught (his home is on the southern end of Whistle Street), Cassio Valn has used his new-found fame and money to open a studio in the Nexus district some few minutes walk from the The Rose, and together with many of his clients he has been seen patronising that establishment. Of greater note is the recent invitation from the Orinas Colors Academy to be a guest speaker to a class of final-year students, something that Valn is said by his friends to be strongly considering.

Rumours

• Cassio Valn is a God-Blood and his portraits actually capture the true spirit and Essence of the subject in a two-dimensional form, but in a way that mortal eyes have difficulty comprehending.
• The laughably bad portraits of Cassio Valn and his undeserved fame are simply another move in a long-running war between Nexian art critics.

Secret

• Cassio Valn is honestly just a genuinely bad artist. His current fame is the result of art critics convinced that no-one who was as bad as Cassio apparently is would ever exhibit his work, and so they look for (and find) meaning in his work that simply isn’t there. Cassio is simultaneously elated and terrified at his current fame.

Comments

<grin> This entry sums up all my feelings about postmodernism perfectly, particularly the secret. I like.
~ Shataina

Or at least about neo-Cubism. ^^;