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Oh de Laval
Diana

2019

$29,427.56
£21,000
€24,960.19
CA$40,053.89
A$44,802.79
CHF 23,315.64
MX$551,537.61
NOK 296,623.19
SEK 278,291.03
DKK 186,227.95
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Oh de Laval, Diana, 2019 Acrylic on card painting Original artwork 30 x 40 cm (11.81 x 15.75 in) Depicting a haunting, grotesque wedding portrait of Diana and Charles, exemplifies Oh de Laval’s subversive satire of power and royal mythology, rendered in her signature faux-naïf, psychologically charged style. Oh de Laval is the sobriquet of Olga Pothipirom, an artist of half Polish, Half Thai descent. Oh’s work is concerned with human behaviour: the decisions we make, why we make them and how we feel as a result. These decisions are windows into our very personalities. In this spirit, each of Laval’s paintings acts as a window into her character, her pleasures and her imaginings. Her figurative compositions are influenced by film noir and French new wave cinema and aim to capture licentious psychological undercurrents. Oh’s self professed manifesto dictates that the painter should have an inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life; they should explore old artists’ way of living rather than studying their way of painting and they should never ask for feedback on an unfinished painting – other opinions will affect the work and the artist will end up trying to please others. There’s evidence to say Oh upholds these manifesto commitments: she’s heavily influenced by Francis Bacon, however this is not a direct, technical or stylistic influence, she speaks of how she likes the way he lived, likes the risk and the hedonism. In Bacon’s words “the art that has no balls has no value,” Laval’s deliciously unsettling work would certainly have interested him. Finally, Laval states “I’m not calling myself an artist, I’m a painter. I’m the only one who knows which one of my paintings is art and which one isn’t […] It’s art for me.” This unabashed egoism is what makes Laval so appealing, her work is unfiltered and, in an age awash with anxiety and self-doubt, her sultry, divisive compositions shine through.
  • Creator:
    Oh de Laval
  • Creation Year:
    2019
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11.82 in (30 cm)Width: 15.75 in (40 cm)
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  • Framing:
    Framing Options Available
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  • Gallery Location:
    Manchester, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2261216557302

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