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Russia
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 27.6 W x 35.4 H x 0.7 D in
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The painting represents a remake of the famous "Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli. Once children are born, the trajectory of a woman's life is determined by chance. A child - a daughter of a Russian model, political activist and feminist Sasha Chernousova - with the hair dryer in her arms was not originally envisaged in the painting, but fits perfectly having rhymed with the Gods of Wind presented in Botticelli's work. Despite the irresistible pressure of corporality and reproductive efficiency, a woman in her life is inspired by the beauty and spirit penetrating living matter. This living matter is expressed in the form of "grid" painted by the artist Aoki who draws exclusively similar abstract "grids" and "fractals”. When portraying women, a feminist artist always faces a contradiction hidden in artist’s profession - between desire to portray women beautifully (to embellish them or initially to look for models with an ideal face and figure), or "like they are", not caring to hide the folds, wrinkles etc. (what can cause dissatisfaction of both the depicted and the viewers). A task to create a "beautiful picture" contradicts the concept of the bodypositive, gradually discriminating against those who do not have a body accepted as an ideal in the society. Equating the standard beautiful body to all other bodies is also hypocrisy, since most people still want to have a beautiful body anyway. Beauty-practice, fitness etc. are an acute topic in the feminist community and considered part of the adaptive strategy of women's survival in a patriarchal society.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:27.6 W x 35.4 H x 0.7 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:Russia.
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Russia
MILA ARBUZOVA Mila Arbuzova was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia in 1973. Having graduated from Saint-Petersburg's University of Humanities and Social Sciences, she worked as a journalist at the different art and cultural magazines. At the same time she began her own artist's experiments. Mila Arbuzova spent her childhood in the downtown of Saint Petersburg. Her family lived in a block of flats in Grazhdanskaya Street where, according to Dostoevsky's famous novel "Crime and Punishment", the old female moneylender killed by Rodion Raskolnikov used to live. In Soviet times guides often showed foreigners the place where the legendary murder occurred. Maybe this location of the native house made an influence on the future artist. The art work of Mila Arbuzova is essentially "Saint-Petersburg's": lyrical, strict, sometimes - tragicomocal, philosophical, serious and absurdist in the same moment. It includes a wide range of subjects: the sarcastic sketches in the spirit of "social art" as well as the magical  fantastic pictures together with free compositions combining parts of realistic images in a surrealistic manner. Contemporary Russian Art despite its visual diversity tends to simplify so that its painting mainstream is becoming more and more schematic and conditional due to both accelerated tempo of modern life along with its formalization and current art market conjuncture. In contrast to this tendency works of other Russian artists tend to re-establish classical painting culture as independent elitist art form which can be appreciated only by the narrow circle of fans and art hedonists of special kind. Mila Arbuzova's paintings combine the realistic painting's techniques (including attention to details, subtle color nuances, harmonious composition solutions) with actual social issues, absurd sense of humor and lyricism. All these features traditionally characterize art of St. Petersburg. In her paintings the principles of both figurative and abstract art are incarnated. Abstraction, however, does not play a merely decorative role: you can be sure that it is integrated into the plot. All Arbuzova's work deal with a few major themes: politics, beach, portrait, sport and dance. Also Mila Arbuzova is an author and inspirer of the international women's art project "BIOWOMAN".
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