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Painting, Oil on Other
Size: 19.7 W x 23.6 H x 0.5 D in
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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.
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Oil on Other
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19.7 W x 23.6 H x 0.5 D in
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Keith Pointing
United Kingdom
He graduated with a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design from Middlesex University and has exhibited in the ICA in London and the Künstlerhaus, Vienna. Prints of his drawings from his book The Inkspot Monologues which sold worldwide and were exhibited in the Freud Gallery in London. He uses surrealism and humour to satirise the human condition, environmental justice and societal issues. He works primarily in oil paints and he uses motifs and layers of iconography from the natural, the classical world and visual memory. In each work, he experiments using the language of form, colour, shape, space, and volume. These works explore the dichotomies of childhood and adulthood, the conscious and unconscious, and the seen and unseen in various emphasis and combinations. Biography He exhibited paintings with the Henry Boxer Gallery, London, alongside Scottie Wilson and George Grosz, the Espacio Gallery, 2017, Shoreditch, London, the Churchgate Gallery, Porlock, 2018, curated by artist David Harrison (Victoria Miro Gallery), alongside other artists, including Peter Doig, Issac Julien CBE RA, and Abigal Lane. In 2022 he exhibited in the Bargehouse, London, the Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, and Muse!, in the Candid Arts Gallery, London, the Bargehouse, London, 20023, Ultra Modern, Fox Yard Gallery, Stowmarket, Suffolk, Surreal Art at the Phantasmal Gallery, Bath. The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford, Derbyshire, 2024
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