Guusje Bertholet

Raven 4. Large Figurative Painting

2022

This large work from the Smoke And Mirror series was inspired by a visit to the sites of ancient Egypt. Horus the Magician encapsulates the religion & ritual during the time of the P...

Something so special it's hardly ever seen - creative silver and gold leafing. The face passed through seven stages before it was complete and crushed marble is used to adorn her fa...

Fully costumed Harlequin sits before the hot swirling background looking reflective after his performance. With his ceruse coated face he is the archetypal image of our perception of...

Harlequin On Fire from the studio of Sax Berlin. Vivid colour reflects the face of Harlequin; he gazes back as the fire rages; will he plunge into the inferno...

Shyamal Mukherjee - Bawa Biwi - 24 x 24 inches (unframed size) Reverse on Acrylic on Acrylic Sheet About the Artist : Mukherjee was born in 1961, and spent all of his college...

Shyamal Mukherjee - Bawa Biwi - 24 x 24 inches (unframed size) Reverse on Acrylic on Acrylic Sheet About the Artist : Mukherjee was born in 1961, and spent all of his college...

Shyamal Mukherjee - Bawa Biwi - 8 x 8 inches ; 8 x 9 inches ; 12 x 12 inches Oil Reverse on Acrylic on Acrylic Sheet & Acrylic on Canvas ( Set of 18 works ) About the Artist...

A feminine figure occupies the majority of the right side of this canvas, and though we can't see her face, we know that she is looking at the wall beside her. The wall is disheveled, seemingly covered with graffiti and a broken mirror hangs loosely at a precarious angle. -- Building on her previous show, Main Squeeze, which featured bodies pressing through the grid of lawn chairs, in “That Feeling When,” Aldrich expands the excess of materials to large figure paintings and small, overfilled sculptures. Aldrich uses thick materials that protrude from the surface, reminding the viewer that the paintings are not only physical objects in themselves, but also create the illusion of the picture. The work employs a risky excess of material that borders on uncontrollable; becoming metaphoric for barely controlled femininity, the attraction and repulsion of materialism, and the body pressing against constraints. The figures in the paintings are seen from behind or have turned away. The viewer is put in a place of questioning whether they are a voyeur or a co-viewer with the figure of something deeper in the picture plane. The full body paintings of young women based on Nancy Drew...