Fragile Art. Anna Waser Painting

My creative pseudonym is Evgeniya Bova. I am an artist from Russia. My project is dedicated to women artists of the past who have achieved success. This work is from the series, which show copies of the hands from the self-portraits of female artists. First of all I am interested in the view of the artists themselves and not in the view of their contemporaries, critics and historians. Therefore, my project is based on self-portraits of artists - their reflection of themselves in their work. By exploring the work of these women, their contribution to art, by remembering them, it is as if I am creating a new connection between us. I accept their experience expressed through pictures. I have based my paintings not on canvas or paper but on ancient plates. Some of the plates were handed down to me from my ancestors, some I bought at flea markets. When I look at them I imagine the hands of generations of women washing them. The plate in this project is a symbol of the "female" in art. As with any work associated with arts and crafts, the painting of ceramics is generally regarded with disdain. Women's painting has long been treated with the same disdain, seen solely as decorative, fun, a distraction from "real" women's affairs. By putting an image of the hands of artists who have achieved recognition, success, and a place in the history of art on the surface of a plate, I change their purpose from utilitarian to aesthetic. I transform the everyday object into an art object, the frivolous into the attention-grabbing, the empty into the meaningful. Just as female artists, achieving personal success, turned "feminine" art into art that is recognized and valued. ________________________________________________ Art work took part in exhibitions: 2021 - group exhibition "Visibility", Sevkabel Port, St. Petersburg. 2021 - group exhibition "Invisible Women", Fund for Cultural Projects "Thursday", Moscow. ________________________________________________ The Plate manufactured at the LEOPOLD CZAMANSKI & Co. WLOCLAWEK N.W.F.F. factory presumably in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The plates are not intended to be used as tableware! The plates are decorative panels. A dry soft cloth can be used for care. ________________________________________________ • 100% original oil painting • Oil painting on antique plate • Hanging hardware is included • Will be shipped in cardboard box • Includes Certificate of Authenticity • Year of creation: 2021 ________________________________________________ Anna Waser was born in 1678, the fifth child of a wealthy and respected family in Zurich. Her parents were Esther Müller and the bailiff Johann Rudolf Waser, an educated man who promoted the talent of his daughter. He had her trained as a painter, despite all social conventions. When she could not learn anything on her first teacher Johannes Sulzer, she went at fourteen to Bern to study with Joseph Werner, one of the leading Swiss painter. Four years she remained as the only girl among his male students, in his "learning workshop for painting". Then she returned to her family to Zurich. There they received portrait commissions from the large circle. Also outside the city people became aware of the young painter. In 1699, Anna Waser now 21 years old, was appointed by the art-loving Count Wilhelm Moritz von Solms-Braunfels as court painter to his castle Braunfels an der Lahn in Hessen. Instead of a planned trip to Paris, she was asked back to Zurich, because the mother was ill and her brother Johann Rudolf, a tutor in Braunfels, decided to travel as a military chaplain to Holland. From about 1702, she now had to look after the home of her parents, and her painting suffered. She painted only here and there a portrait or a little pastoral scenes, for which she had at that time been famous. In 1708, she was together with her sisters Anna and Maria Elisabeth Waser continued some drawings. They finally sent her autobiography, a program executed in silver point technique Self-portrait and other works of art to Jacob von Sandrart for a scheduled update of his art lexicon Teutsche Academie. In 1714 Anna Waser died at the age of 35 years as the consequences of a fall. From Wikipedia.

Painting:Oil on Ceramic

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:9.8 W x 9.8 H x 1.4 D in

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