'Rose' - Pink In Memoriam (Panel 1) Painting

FRAME NOT AVAILABLE I’ve gravitated to and from the colour pink. It creeps into my unconsciousness. I’m trying to push the painting so that I have to question whether it’s even a portrait anymore. I’m starting to see that my work is becoming more about love of paint, than the portrait itself. I want to paint something beautiful but also abhorrent. Something you want to touch but also don’t want to look at. This ambivalence goes to the heart of Bhaktin’s fascination with Rabelais’ carnival. The ‘portraits’ take on a C18th French aesthetic though with gilded frames turning into expanding foam, a ‘high culture’ material colliding with a ‘low culture’ building material – a kind of reversal of the Cinderella story. By using only a limited palette of pink, the paintings gain a carnivalesque aspect creating a more sinister element. In a similar way to the Feminist use of carnivalesque as appropriation of masculine sexual/gender symbolism to mock Freudian concept of penis envy and to create laughter out of masculine role-play. The images turn into a shrine, Majestic but abhorrent. The ‘sickly sweet’. Pink is often seen as Vulgar or ‘kitschy, it is one of the most vehemently rejected colour of all which only underscores its unusual biologically based effectiveness. The expectation of boudoir intimacy and Barbie chic in the paintings gives way to a kind of aesthetic of the slaughter house – how else to explain the running, pooling paint where the faces appear to have melted in some gruesome acid attack. There is a distinctively feminist tenor, the paintings confront the viewer with excessive material qualities as a deliberate visual strategy.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:60.2 W x 84.3 H x 1.6 D in

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