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Photography, Digital on Aluminum Dibond
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A portrait of Wanrong, the last empress of China and final ruler of the Qing Dynasty. Her husband's neglect and personal tragedies led to her addiction to Opium -- which had been smuggled into the port of Canton by the British. After the Russian invasion, the Qing dynasty was deposed and Wanrong was arrested and imprisoned for the rest of her life. 孝恪愍皇后郭博勒氏 When I first saw a tiny, degraded photo of the Empress on Wikipedia, I became obsessed with her face and searched for a large color portrait, but found none. Using a digital paintbrush I constructed this work restoring this intriguing woman of history to her former beauty. The background is a digitally altered and digitally painted 17th century view of Canton, attributed to the Dutch painter Johannes Vinckboons. Digital collage and painting on gloss Aluminum. It comes with a certificate of authenticity and is signed and numbered by the artist.
2014
Digital on Aluminum Dibond
10
35 W x 30 H x 2 D in
Not applicable
Yes
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Karen Clark is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles. She uses oil, acrylic and collage in her quest to find magic in the ordinary. Her art has been commissioned by Louis Vuitton, the Bellagio Hotel, the Mandarin Oriental, the Virgin Hotel, Los Vegas, and an HBO series. She has sold to private collections in Sweden, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Israel, the Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, the US and more. Her art has been featured on on Artsy, the Huffington Post, CNN, and CBS. From Art Critic Shana Nys Dambrot, "Karen Clark avails herself of an eclectic set of mediums and materials, including but not limited to painting, drawing, digital collage, and printmaking. These she deploys in all possible combinations in the service of pictorially hybrid compositions in which she freely samples stylistic languages from gestural abstraction to the surreal, naturalistic, ultra-modern, and romantic -- inventively choreographing this gamut of choices into layered juxtapositions that are at once eerie and poetic, strange and familiar.
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