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Les Demoiselles Painting

Rosso Emerald Crimson

United Kingdom

Painting, oil on Wood

Size: 59 W x 48 H x 2 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

In Les Demoiselles I explore a part of my identity through a very specific memory of my childhood, the First Communion. Differently to my previous self-portraits which are “staged” to some degrees, the five young girls here are real and their emotions are genuine. The composition was in fact reconstructed from a series of family and vintage photographs: I am the girl in the middle, next to my mum, my aunt and two unknown girls found in photos from 40s/50s. I deliberately chose to include these cross-generational portraits not only to show how the ceremony has been preserved unaltered to the present day, but also to speculate about the impact that any such ritual might have on the developing mind of a young 8 years old girl. Personally I remember that day with trepidation and a bit of discomfort: we were told we were marrying “Jesus” and dressed up in pompous princess-style outfits, while also perceiving the artificiality and, to some extent, the contradictory nature of an event rooted in Christian dogma yet embellished with lavish mundanity. “Les Demoiselles” raises questions on the role of cultural traditions and religions in shaping gender identity and propagating the prevailing heteropatriarchal society.

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Painting:

oil on Wood

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

59 W x 48 H x 2 D in

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n her portraiture, Rosso Emerald Crimson renders female subjects who emerge through a haze of pastels and muted tones. She infuses the dreamy oil paintings with responses to current affairs and questions about the future, which often serve as a catalyst for her projects. The artist depicts the women and girls staring forward with unsmiling expressions. Psychologically charged, her characters capture the viewers’ imagination and instill very subjective, intimate responses. ********** Italian born, Rosso has been living in London since early 2000. She trained at the London Atelier of Representational Art (LARA) and now works a full time artist. 
She has won several art prizes, including the 2016 “Emerald Winter Pride Award”, organised by Pride UK; the first prize for the Holly Bush “Emerging Woman Painter Prize”, leading to Rosso’s first solo exhibition at CASSart headquarters gallery in London. In 2019, Rosso was awarded the first prize for the portrait/figurative category at the “Jackson Open Painting Prize”. She was selected to participate in “Sky Portrait Artist Of The Year” in 2019 and again in 2021. In 2021, she was finalist in the renown “Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize”, which opened doors to collaborations and exhibitions internationally with galleries in US (Sugarlift, Principle Gallery), Canada (James Baerd Gallery), Norway (Romfjord Gallery), Germany (Stoerpunkt). Rosso has been featured in Colossal, International Artist Magazine, Create Mag, Evolved Mag, MyModernMet, Artists&Illustrator; The Artist’s Magazine, etc. Her painting “Climate Rebel” (2019) was on cover of Arena Magazine (Australia); her work was sold to renown art collectors wordlwide and exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) at the Mall Galleries in London and MEAM (Museum Modern Art) in Barcelona.

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