Jack Painting

Jack - 2022 - 40x50cm - Oil on canvas mounted on wood Jack is a small crudely modeled clay figurine. I wanted to create this realist portrait to test our capabilities to have empathy and project a personality into a small slightly deformed clay figurine. I like the idea of blowing up its size and giving it a dignified treatment to see how it changes its status. Jack's slightly blank expression with its sunken eyes and slight grin interrogates the limits of what deserves our attention and provokes an emotional response. Janice is intentionally outside the classical norms of beauty and the cartoonish stylizations of cute animation or comic characters. It belongs to a more earthy world connected to essential spiritual beliefs. It shares a space with other primitive figurines that have reached us through the ages. It belongs to a continuum that connects all humans from prehistory through to today into a shared capacity for anthropomorphization. The medium-small work is painted in slow-drying oil over a natural size and ground recipe that dates to the Flemish painters. The canvas is mounted directly on wood for unrivaled durability. Raw canvas is left visible on the edges of the painting. The painting is finished with a high-quality gloss varnish that brings out the colors and texture of the paint and ground.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:16 W x 20 H x 0.8 D in

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