Woman of a certain age Painting

The cartoonish figure has her eyes tightly shut. The picture is clearly contemporary, but the huge bonnet she wears is not now commonly worn by Western women and the pearls she wears suggest she is not from a religious order such as the Amish. The only people who still wear bonnets are babies. Hanging by her pearl necklace is also a baby’s dummy held by a gold chain. Her grimace could be seen as the distaste of sucking a dummy, a second childhood or having never properly left the first childhood. In portraiture in Western art, the convention is for the subject to look at the viewer. Here, the woman has her eyes tight shut. There is a an ambiguity as to the time of the picture (the bonnet is usually associated with 18th and 19th century) yet she is wearing a type of cardigan associated with the 20th and 21st century and a contemporary dummy hangs as if a piece of jewellery around her her neck, alongside her pearl necklace. There is deliberate mixture of treatments from naturalistic to the cartoonish, which is intended to express the the unreality most of us experience the human condition.

Painting:Oil on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:19.7 W x 23.6 H x 0.5 D in

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