Dong Liu

Dong Liu Animal Original Mixed Media "Butterfly"

2012

Title: Summer Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 14.5 x 27.75 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This paintin...

Title: Untitled Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 23.5 x 35.25 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in fair condition. Year: 2011 Artist:...

Butterflies, 2005 Mixed media on canvas Mounted on a strecher size: 40 x 40 cm Mounted ______ Born in 1953 in Paris (FR). Lives and works in Paris (FR). After studying political sc...

Sara Crisp embeds found organic objects such as starfish, butterfly wings and fossils into the wax surfaces of her paintings. They have often been compared to medieval reliquaries, fossilized amber, and naturalist’s journals. Although the placement of the component objects is carefully planned, she comes across these artifacts by chance. This duality between control and spontaneity is prominent in her work. The result is visually seductive and symbolically suggestive, balancing scientific objectivity and romantic subjectivity. Her work comes across as precise, even clinical, at times, their surfaces scored and traversed by carefully measured lines and geometric forms. Carefully fashioned, polygonal sections of mica, a transparent mineral, cover the center of each painting. In addition to celebrating the process involved in creating an object, Crisp’s art...