Lachapelle and neoclassicism

Just as Neo-classicism began looking back at classic art, to revive the ideals of Greek and roman art, David Lachapelle is an artist, who through photography brings resemble of famous pieces of art to actuality. Like the Pieta of Michelangelo, the last supper, or Andy Warhol’s Marylyn. The Neoclassicism searches for the virtues of the French revolution and enhances the courage of men. In Lachapelle’s work the cosmism and plastic symbols are part of a joke, where the viewer became the judge when he or she sees the familiarity of the cosmism world in the pictures.
He plays with symbols in a modern context just as Neoclassicism used to work. But insted of encouraging patriotism or freedom, the subjects matter is about tha plastic idialisms in famous