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Yin ll Painting

Gina Parr

United Kingdom

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 63 W x 55.1 H x 1.7 D in

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The painting, “Yin ll”, stems from the Yin and Yang symbol of dualism from ancient Chinese philosophy. The symbol is widely taken as a way of illustrating how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected and interdependent in the natural world. However, in spite of being used to justify egalitarianism, in practise the concept behind them has led to justification of China's patriarchal history, particularly under Confucianism, where Yang as the male element and sun principle is considered superior to Yin, the female and submissive, dark principle. Hence men are afforded rulership and superior positions whereas women are not, unless under some remarkable circumstances they possess sufficient yang. So it seems to Parr that there has been and continues to be, worldwide, little or no complementary equality in the gender world, only the proliferation of inferior yin and superior yang. The Painting, from the Artist’s series “ The great divide “ explores Parr’s experience of being female and therefore stereotyped by society as being feminine, and the conflicts and questions often raised by this, as always with her painting, expressed through abstracted scape and form. When painting, she is completely immersed in the process, building a reverberating relationship with the canvas, a push and pull of spontaneity and controlled intention. As much is taken away from the painting as is added, with constant building and washing of the canvas, aiming to invoke an atmosphere drawn from the process, the initial emotional trigger and the colour palette employed. She uses palette knife, cloth, brush and sponge to add, remove, scratch, blur and work the paint, often drawing into the paint with charcoal. The painting is signed on the canvas side and ready to hang.

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:63 W x 55.1 H x 1.7 D in

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Gina Parr b: 1957 is a Painter and Photographer who “Paints” with her camera whilst traveling and away from her studio. The Artist says of her Painting practice, "Scape, memory and identity are ever present in my work. My childhood, spent diversely in wide-open spaces with my father fishing for mackerel and at home with my mother's hoarding and mental health issues, defined my relationship to the sea and land: both the spirit and memory of the open space, evoking freedom and connectedness and the dark uncertainty of the deep. My work is an expression of the intermingling of joy and pain, love and loss: the human condition and tracks the line between abstraction and figuration. When painting, I am completely immersed in the process, building a reverberating relationship with the canvas, a push and pull of spontaneity and controlled intention. I employ palette knife, cloth, brush, sponge and fingers, to add, remove, scratch, blur and work the oil paint, often drawing into the paint with charcoal, whilst aiming to evoke an atmosphere drawn from the process, the emotional trigger and the colour palette employed. Focusing on the relationship with the developing painting and the paint itself, I ultimately seek to find an emotional balance within the creation of the work, which I hope will in turn speak to the viewer’s inner self.” When not in her painting studio and whilst traveling, the Artist photographs series of transient forms and marks on walls and surfaces, which form unique atmospheric worlds, each with their own pictorial resonance or echo. Many are redolent of things half remembered, some resemble fragments of old charts and maps, others feature overt elements of graphic representation. Her intent is to frame these forms and subsequently print them exactly as found: the shapes, colour, and textures, all discovered in the weathering, decay, water damage and patination of her chosen destination. Her photographs are often mistaken for paintings. Both her painting and photography uncover our complex potential connections and disconnections with form and landscape resulting in work that she hopes will provoke our capacity to imagine a space beyond our known territories.

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