Daria Kusto

TWIN QUEEN II

2021

Original painting by Daria Kusto. acrylic on canvas. The magic flow reality... This artwork was created in sunny Thailand, where the artist currently lives and works. The paintin...

Original art by Daria Kusto. acrIcrylic on wotercolor paper. The magic flow reality... Shipped free well protected unframed.

The inspiration for Mary Dwyer's work revolves around storytelling, historic events, a love of political cartoons and early portraiture paintings. An integral part of this work is research. Spurred by an innate curiosity, she creates political, historical and personal paintings. In the last few years Dwyer has been researching and painting the American Suffrage movement. In this research she discovered that the people working as both Suffragists and Abolitionists also started their own newspapers and published their own pamphlets. They became journalists, as no one was covering their story. Dwyer's paintings are a celebration of both the voter’s rights activist and the visual pageantry of the Suffrage movement. The use of color in her Suffrage paintings speak to the vibrant pageantry and the visual marketing used during the movement. Sashes, button, banners, flags and ribbons were made by women and marketed for women. The significance of free press is paramount in a free and fair society. The importance of journalist has become a theme that has continued in her present work. Recently she has been working on a Memorial Paintings...

Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.037 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic on Board Painting Profile Landscape 438.037 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collag...