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Culture Club Painting - Limited Edition of 4

Gordon Coldwell

United Kingdom

Painting, Digital on Canvas

Size: 40 W x 40 H x 0.1 D in

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Culture Club Giclée Print on Canvas (+ 3 ins white border) The artwork is delivered with a signed and dated Certificate of Authenticity The original nipple-pinching painting this work is a development from, is far from our modern interpretations of lesbian love or our taste for sheer provocation, the delicate yet evident sensuality pictured is misleading - the painting actually showcased the beauty of the most famous of Henri IV of France’s mistresses, Gabrielle d’Estrées, with her own sister, the Duchess of Villars. The latter’s gesture is usually interpreted as a reference to Gabrielle’s pregnancy. The work presents all manner of signs, symbols, religious taboos and identity issues simultaneously. The red curtains are drawn and provide a 'reveal'. • Why the nipple pinching? The handshape of the 'pincher' is very close to that repeatedly made by Donald Trump when making speeches - what does it mean? • Why the shaven half-heads of women of colour at the bottom of the composition? • Why are the scarf headed figures naked? • The figure wearing a Union Jack scarf holds a ring by her fingertips? • What do the national flags of the US and UK mean when they are warn as scarves? • The figure wearing a burka/chadaree , her partner wears a nun's habit - what are the differences? The 'burka/chadaree and nun's habit' motif appears again in the unfinished 'Culture Show' painting positioned in front of the couple (Jan van Eyck's - Arnolfini Marriage). The Culture Show composition itself is based on the LP sleeve cover of Roxy Music's early '70s album, Country Life. This Arnolfini scene appears in a related by the UK Pop Artist, Richard Hamilton.

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Painting:Digital on Canvas

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:4

Size:40 W x 40 H x 0.1 D in

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I was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK) in 1954. My mother was Dutch and could draw well. Both of these facts are significant in terms of influences and experiences. As a teenager, my summer holidays were spent in the Dutch seaside town of Scheveningen (my mother’s birthplace). We would stay with my grandmother and visit relatives... great uncles who collected stamps and painted everyday objects in the style of 17th-century artists... an uncle who was a graphic designer. They had prints of Dutch Golden Age landscape and still life paintings on their walls. Scheveningen is close to the Hague and Amsterdam an easy train journey away. Both places have world-famous art galleries that I visited with a Dutch cousin. To this day, my experience of seeing Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and standing in front of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch has stayed with me. My art teacher at secondary school was a graduate of Newcastle University. He had been taught by Richard Hamilton (Pop Artist) and Victor Pasmore (Formal Abstraction). We went to exhibitions at the University’s Hatton Gallery to see exhibitions of work by Kurt Schwitters (Merz/Dada Art) and John Heartfield (Anti Nazi Montage/Collage Art). All of these early experiences had a major impact on my career choice and still inform the artworks I make. My work might broadly be described as ‘Art About Art’ - it is multi-layered in construction and in potential meaning. I make my artworks by importing pictorial content into image manipulating software, the composition is then constructed, developed and finessed digitally. I often utilise elements sourced from classic 'Old Master' paintings. By fusing history with contemporary additions, I work with the iconic and the cultural, merging them to create new narratives. I quote from the art of the past so as to reinterpret a way of seeing and thinking that I associate with artists as disparate as Vermeer, Velasquez, Ingres, Manet, Duchamp and Richard Hamilton etc. My artworks are, in part, referential in their intent rather than simply appropriated or copied from masterworks. My imitation is a sincere form of flattery. In addition to explicit references, some may find humour in my alterations. By leaving out familiar elements or by adding new elements to known works, or reconfiguring components within them, much of my work is a visual commentary. Viewers often recognise 'familiar' elements in my re-imagined compositions.

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