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Masked Nude Painting

Karma Kitaj

United States

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 24 W x 18 H x 0.2 D in

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My figurative work is influenced by my brother, RB Kitaj, by Robert Henry, Hans Hofmann's student in Provincetown,MA (US) and by Hyman Bloom, the early symbolist painter.This is a comical piece, portraying a masked nude, painted in shades of orange, yellow, with green leg warmers collaged onto her calves. Her breasts are covered with pasties with glitter. The collage is encaustic monoprint on paper and silk. The monoprint is also defining the blanket thrown on her settee. A bright light fails to illuminate her dark green mask. In the upper right is a parallel nude in a photograph on the wall. I was having fun with this, using fantasy and play to create this nude. It’s altogether silly, including the out of proportion body parts. Probably this model had a lovely figure, but this fantasy woman is a bit wanting. Unframed on canvas, it can be shipped in a tube or mounted on plywood or art board. Choose what you want.

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Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 18 H x 0.2 D in

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Making art is an encore career for me. Years ago when I hosted a community access TV show called “Alivelihood:New Adventures As We Age,” I interviewed an artist who had been a German professor. She invited me to her art studio. I loved painting and collaging with her immediately and never stopped painting. Soon I discovered the ancient , now popular medium of encaustic, hot pigmented wax, and was enraptured with the possibilities. I studied with many sterling artists learning to make mono prints and paintings with the wax and a torch to burn each layer to the one beneath. I attended workshops at the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown each spring. Next, I added acrylic and mixed media to my repertoire. My most recent paintings are created with oil mixed with cold wax and sometimes a medium to increase flow and transparency. The subject matter that intrigues me lately is painting the abstracted, distorted human figure, often with backgrounds depicting a fantasy room or landscape. My life outside of art encompasses many wonderful things: living in the country in Massachusetts with my husband of 40+ years and 2 adorable rescue dogs from Mexico, dancing Argentinian tango and studying with one of the world's most accomplished teachers, still riding my horse a little bit, wintering in San Miguel de Allende, MX to name a few.

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