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Art Subject: People
"The Three Graces" - Surrealism, figurative, nudes, patterns - Arcimboldo
By Guy Robinson
Located in Atlanta, GA
"The Three Graces" features hues of blue, pink, yellow, orange, green, and black.
Guy Robinson is inspired by the work of Paul Klee, Albrecht Durer and Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Atlanta ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
June 2001, J.T.
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Xiaoze Xie. "June 2001, J.T." is a contemporary painting, oil on canvas by Chinese photorealist Xiaoze Xie. The artwork is signed on the verso, "June 2001 Xie Xiaoze...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th Century by Nicolas van Houbraken Still Life with Mushrooms Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Nicolas Van Houbraken (Messina, Italy, 1668 - Pisa, Italy, 1733)
Title: Still life with mushrooms
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 26 x 32 cm - with frame 38.5 x 33.5...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Canvas, Oil
Snow Day, Impressionist Painterly figurative oil painting on board
Located in Atlanta, GA
Welcome to Heritage, our carefully curated collection of French vintage and antique paintings. We scour the flea markets and fairs for these gems: poignant portraits of long-gone Me...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Piazza in Zadar
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a shady piazza in Croatia.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that his passion ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ponies and Puppies Trotty And Trix Coloring Book, Cover Art
Located in Miami, FL
Children's illustration of Ponies and Puppies
Signed lower left
Children’s Books Published by The Merrill Company
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$2,700 Sale Price
20% Off
"L'Abondance", Jean-Claude Gaugy, Oil on Board, French, Contemporary, Still Life
Located in Dallas, TX
"L'Abondance" is an original oil on board painting that measures 30x40 inches and comes unframed. Roughly translated to "abundance", this piece exhibits an arrangement of flowers, fr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Cubist Still Life After Georges Braque
Located in New York, NY
AFTER Georges Braque
Still Life
Oil on board
9 3/4 x 32 1/2 in.
Framed: 17 3/8 x 40 in.
Georges Braque was born on May 13, 1882 in Argenteuil, France, where his parents ran a paint ...
Category
20th Century Cubist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Partitioned Room #1
Located in New York, NY
Recipient of the Judith McGregor Caldwell Purchase Prize—a prestigious award given by the Pennsylvania Academy for a uniquely significant artwork worthy of inclusion in their permanent collection, Ben Hazen is currently exhibiting his unique interior still life paintings at Questroyal Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Threshold
Located in New York, NY
Recipient of the Judith McGregor Caldwell Purchase Prize—a prestigious award given by the Pennsylvania Academy for a uniquely significant artwork worthy of inclusion in their permanent collection, Ben Hazen is currently exhibiting his unique interior still life paintings at Questroyal Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Skull, Original Signed Contemporary Black and Green Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in Boston, MA
Skull, Original Signed Contemporary Black and Green Painting
18" x 18" x 0.75" (HxWxD) Acrylic on Canvas
Hand-signed by the artist. Finished with a gloss varnish.
A black background allows the subject matter of this acrylic painting by artist Lindsay Hall, a human skull, to both pop forward and recede into the background. There is an amount of chiaroscuro happening on the left side of the skull, keeping it in shadow, falling into the depths. An item in a cabinet of curiosities, this memento mori work serves as a pausing point to sit and reflect on one's own mortality. The green tones to the white of the skull give this work an interesting dimensionality to it, almost imbuing it with life, ironically. The black background is reminiscent of artists like Caravaggio and the subject matter is highly reminiscent of Van Gogh's Skull of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette.
Artist Commentary:
I painted this when I lived in Richmond, VA above an oddities shop. Being in such close proximity to various curiosities like taxidermied animals, preserved animal organs, coffins, and the like definitely kept my mind in the spooky mood all year round. The building itself was black and had a giant grim reaper...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vexation #4, Original Still Life Painting (Acrylic Paint), 2018
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This is my winter painting from my "Vexation" series. I wanted the painting to look cold and dark. It reminds me of winter in Wisconsin when the trees loose their ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Mooring Balls, Great Kills Harbor, Original Still Life Painting, 2020
By Denise Mumm
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
I love the geometry of mooring balls, stacked boats and anchors and the tangled texture of chains and ropes in boatyards. The shadows of late day delineate them.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Holidays at the Beach
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
I have been asked numerous times by my loyal customers to create more holiday winter cards of my paintings. As I was looking outside my window in this month of Ma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer right side profile
Located in Fairfield, CT
A CLOSER LOOK: OBSERVATIONS NOT FAR FROM HOME
I have always addressed the details of physical reality in the subjects I choose in order to convey the spirit and feelings that were fi...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer left back profile
Located in Fairfield, CT
A CLOSER LOOK: OBSERVATIONS NOT FAR FROM HOME
I have always addressed the details of physical reality in the subjects I choose in order to convey the spirit and feelings that were fi...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer left side profile
Located in Fairfield, CT
A CLOSER LOOK: OBSERVATIONS NOT FAR FROM HOME
I have always addressed the details of physical reality in the subjects I choose in order to convey the spirit and feelings that were fi...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer 3/4 view
Located in Fairfield, CT
A CLOSER LOOK: OBSERVATIONS NOT FAR FROM HOME
I have always addressed the details of physical reality in the subjects I choose in order to convey the spirit and feelings that were fi...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Big Boy Toy Bank
Located in Fairfield, CT
Raymond Logan is a representational artist whose work is truly about the intersection of realism and abstraction. Deeply grounded in highly skilled draftsmanship, Logan’s paintings ...
Category
2010s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Remnant #2
Located in Park City, UT
CAROL O'MALIA received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Her paintings have caught the attention of both private and corpo...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
$24,780
Remnant #1
Located in Park City, UT
CAROL O'MALIA received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Her paintings have caught the attention of both private and corpo...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
$24,780
The Brooklyn Diner
Located in Fairfield, CT
After a long, successful career with the Eastman Kodak Company as a photojournalist and editorial photographer, Emile Dillon returned to painting in 1998. As a photographer he traveled the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe. While he’d chosen the camera for his profession, he’d grown up with oil on canvas. His grandfather was the Harlem Renaissance painter Frank Joseph Dillon and a favorite uncle was the Latin American artist Felix Vargas.
Dillon’s years behind the camera and days in Soho galleries inspired him to pursue Photorealism as a style. But instead of the landscape of the exotic which he’d experienced in his Kodak travels, he was fascinated by the humble diners, motels, and vintage signs which were vanishing from American towns and cities. To perfect his craft, he studied at the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League in New York.
In an article on his work in the July 2019 issue of American Art Collector magazine, Dillon comments on his subject matter. “Somebody’s got to save these things…These places may not exist anymore in the next 100 years.”
Dillon’s favorite painting in this exhibition is Dunkin Donuts...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Kitchen Still Life Series #18/ Black grapes
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, Karen O'Neil documents the beauty in everyday culinary items through appealing colors and whimsical brushwork.
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Acrylic
The Last Narcissus
By Stephen Hall
Located in New York, NY
Conceptual. Acrylic on canvas.
About the Artist:
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Stephen Hall moved to New York in 1978 and began exhibiting his work in the East Village in the earl...
Category
2010s Conceptual Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Rose Antiqua
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Across the Hall
Located in New York, NY
Recipient of the Judith McGregor Caldwell Purchase Prize—a prestigious award given by the Pennsylvania Academy for a uniquely significant artwork worthy of inclusion in their permanent collection, Ben Hazen is currently exhibiting his unique interior still life paintings at Questroyal Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Frontiersman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Plywood
Dimensions: 15.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Category
Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Acrylic
Mystery Dutch Modernist, Flower Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Unknown Dutch Modernist
Flower Piece After the Dutch KMM, c. 1970
Oil on canvas
36 1/2 x 28 1/4 in.
Framed: 39 x 29 1/2 in.
Signed illegibly verso
Inscribed verso: Flower Piece After...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Iron Plane World Kaws
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique painting, in acrylic and mixed media on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled at the back of the canvas.
Sold with the Certificate of Authenticity.
Jisbar, a contempo...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Free Van G F1
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique painting, in acrylic and mixed media on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled at the back of the canvas.
Sold with the Certificate of Authenticity.
Jisbar, a contempo...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Luxury Pop Art Marilyn
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique painting, in acrylic and mixed media on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled at the back of the canvas.
Sold with the Certificate of Authenticity.
Jisbar, a contempo...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Cornish Bunch - Kate Nicholson Flower Still Life Oil Painting, Neutrals + White
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Kate Nicholson 1929-2019
Cornish Bunch, 1955
oil on canvas laid on board
27.9 x 22.9 cm
11 x 9 in
signed, titled and dated verso
Category
1950s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Saint Michel Terrassant Le Cash
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique painting, in acrylic and mixed media on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled at the back of the canvas.
Sold with the Certificate of Authenticity.
Jisbar, a contempo...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
What was Your First Escape, oil, painting, by Rodney Forbes, humor, city, cat
Located in Santa Fe, NM
What was Your First Escape, oil, painting, by Rodney Forbes, humor, city, cat
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
I Am (Your Back Door Man), painting, by Rodney Forbes, house, yard, pink, blue
Located in Santa Fe, NM
I Am (Your Back Door Man), painting, by Rodney Forbes, house, yard, pink, blue
Inspired by Howlin’ Wolf’s epic song (and Jim Morrison’s ravishing cover o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ferry with Paperboy and Swans, oil, canvas, painting, by Rodney Forbes, birds
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Ferry with Paperboy and Swans, oil, canvas, painting, by Rodney Forbes, birds
As a 15 year old, I sold newspapers on the Williamstown steam ferry which crossed the mouth of the Yarr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Trinity
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The European Academy recognized still-life painting as the lowest form in its hierarchy. Being the depiction of the things of everyday life, it was considered a poor container for th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Price Upon Request
The Source of Suffering
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The European Academy recognized still-life painting as the lowest form in its hierarchy. Being the depiction of the things of everyday life, it was considered a poor container for th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Price Upon Request
Blue Zombie (with Flowers), Oil on Canvas Painting by Allison Schulnik, 2007
Located in Orange, CA
Blue Zombie (with Flowers), Oil on Canvas Painting by Allison Schulnik, 2007
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30 × 24 × 1 1/2 in 76.2 × 61 × 3.8 cm
About ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sculpture Gallery with Madonna and Child
Located in London, GB
Leighton Hall Woollatt
Sculpture Gallery with Madonna and Child
1905 - 1974
Oil on canvas, signed, titled 'Painting of a Antique Cast' from the Royal Academy Schools and dated '28 Ju...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Still life with Fruit and Flowers, Oil on Canvas by Matthew Smith, 1950s Circa
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still life with Fruit and Flowers, Oil on Canvas by Matthew Smith, 1950s Circa
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on Canvas
25.5 x 31 cm
10 1/8 x 1...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Flowers, Oil on Canvas Painting by Josef Herman, 1962
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Flowers, Oil on Canvas Painting by Josef Herman 1915-1997, 1962
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on canvas
60.5 x 45.5 cm
23 7/8 x 17 7/8 in
Signed, titled and dated verso
Josef...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Price Upon Request
Still Life with Shell and Feathers, Oil Board Painting by William George Gillies
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still Life with Shell and Feathers, Oil Board Painting by William George Gillies
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on board
34.5 x 48 cm
13 5/8 x 18 7/8 in
Signed
The sumptuous f...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board
Kranz
By Mary Ann Strandell
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Mary Ann Strandell
Kranz, 2009
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches (61 x 61 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
The Psychotropic Splendor of Utopian Intoxication
Located in Greenwich, CT
Still life of grapes, wine and foliage against an ocean background
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
"Bluebird", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Daniel Sprick's (US based) "Bluebird" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a still life with a bird skeleton, a blue jar, a blue bowl and a broken eggshell.
Currently on display at the Madden Museum through April 28, 2024, but available for shipping in early May.
About the artist:
"Upon first glance, viewers might think Daniel's works are photographs because of their stunningly realistic elements. However, the longer we look at one of his paintings, the more we become aware that they are anything but a part of our world. We encounter Sprick's paintings not so much as statements, but more as experiences, whereby we engage deeply with his creativity. - Timothy J. Standring, exhibition curator and Gates Foundation Curator at the Denver Art Museum. Daniel Sprick's Fictions: Recent Works includes more than 30 examples of the Colorado artist's portraiture and still life paintings that blur the line between realism and abstraction. His meticulous representation of everyday objects and stirring interpretation of the human form provide viewers a new way to look at the world.
Born:
May 1, 1953, Little Rock, Arkansas
Education:
AA-Mesa College, Grand Junction...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Price Upon Request
Woman Walking
Located in Bozeman, MT
My paintings operate in a fictitious world that utilizes the mythologies and realities of the modern American West. Because of its unique history, the Western United States is more t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Monsieur lisant a la lumiere de la fenetre
Located in Missouri, MO
Monsieur lisant a la lumiere de la fenetre
By. Louis Mettling (French, 1847-1904)
Signed Lower Right
Unframed: 16" x 10"
Framed: 28.5" x 23"
Louis Mettling...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Price Upon Request
Interieur No. 1, Cubist Painting by Benno 1937
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original oil on canvas of a cubist still life by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980). By the early 1930s he had established a reputation as a member of the international avant-...
Category
1930s Cubist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Price Upon Request
Taiwanese Lady Slipper 3
Located in New York, NY
Leigh Wen’s works reflect her personal and cultural histories. Having grown up on the island of Taiwan, she has a deep affinity for the elemental power of wa...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Price Upon Request
Woman & Horse
Located in New York, NY
With the distinctive medium of post-it notes, Özmenoğlu re-contextualizes everyday objects from something ordinary to a beautiful work of art. The individualized behavior of each pos...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Postcard, Archival Pigment
Price Upon Request
Liquor Saleswoman - made in brown, beige, wine-colored, claret
By Igor Fomin
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
The hero at this painting is a human. His eyes are a lenses that artist using. At all time they are together, a man and a woman. Duality of differences, two views, different accents,...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Still Life - Original Oil on Canvas by F. Carena - 1952
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original Oil on Canvas realized by Felice Carena in 1952.
Hand signed and dated. Very good condition.
Felice Carena
Turin 1879 - Venice 1966
He studies with Giaco...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hurry up (Date priza) -naive art, made in green, red, turquoise, blue color
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Hurry up (Date priza) -naive art, made in green, red, turquoise, blue color.
Elena Narkevich deliberately chooses naive art, like the famous artists Henri Rousseau and Niko Pirosmani...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Harmony (family kitchen) -naive art, made in green, red, blue, yellow collor
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Harmony (family kitchen) -naive art, made in green, red, blue, yellow collor.
Elena Narkevich deliberately chooses naive art, like the famous artists Henri Rousseau and Niko Pirosmani...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Ocean without a Shore (Black)
By Do Byung-Kyu
Located in New York, NY
The medium of choice for Do Byung-Kyu, born in Cheonan, Korea, is dolls: they are both his conceptions and his physical expression. At the same time dolls are also the perfect tool for communicating the artist’s inner self. Expressing himself by means of dolls liberates Do from the restrictions of the mundane world. By embodying in the form of dolls his actions and thoughts, dreams and desires, and even the instincts lying in the depths of the subconscious, he transcends the secular boundaries. Dolls are his alter ego, his other self that he can construct precisely the way he wants. Sublimating the experiences and memories from his youth into various subjects of desire, Do uses dolls to paint a descriptive picture of the ambiguous feelings of contradictions from his childhood when he would abuse and kill a plaything, for example a frog, then bury the body in solemn mourning over its death. These sexual or violent games from his childhood are not likely to be limited to Do’s experiences alone. Most of us can vaguely remember indulging in sadistic acts of sexual love against a doll. Rising above a child’s simple curiosity, it is an intuitive game of the senses we play by ourselves. In a number of Do’s paintings, sticky liquid can be observed dripping down a doll’s face. This brings back recollections of the life inside our mothers’ womb where we were also enveloped by mucous waters, like the amniotic fluid. It refuses contact with the anything, and nothing wants to touch it either. The shape of such a mucous liquid is a protective layer sheltering the intrinsic identity and desires of man. It is also a substitution that satisfies the ego’s instincts otherwise suppressed by social norms. The dolls’ eyes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Polyurethane
Price Upon Request
Thistles
Located in Missouri, MO
Thistles by Louis Carl Hvasta (1913-1993)
Signed and Dated Lower Right
Unframed: 36" x 14"
Framed: 41.5" x 22.5"
Frame was hand made by the artist.
A local Californian Artist, Hvas...
Category
1960s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Price Upon Request
Still Life - Original Oil on Canvas by Arturo Tosi - 1936
By Arturo Tosi
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a beautiful original oil on Canvas realized by Arturo Tosi in 1936.
Signed lower right "A. Tosi".
Includes a beautiful coeval wooden frame cm...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ocean without a Shore (Grey)
By Do Byung-Kyu
Located in New York, NY
The medium of choice for Do Byung-Kyu, born in Cheonan, Korea, is dolls: they are both his conceptions and his physical expression. At the same time dolls are also the perfect tool for communicating the artist’s inner self. Expressing himself by means of dolls liberates Do from the restrictions of the mundane world. By embodying in the form of dolls his actions and thoughts, dreams and desires, and even the instincts lying in the depths of the subconscious, he transcends the secular boundaries. Dolls are his alter ego, his other self that he can construct precisely the way he wants. Sublimating the experiences and memories from his youth into various subjects of desire, Do uses dolls to paint a descriptive picture of the ambiguous feelings of contradictions from his childhood when he would abuse and kill a plaything, for example a frog, then bury the body in solemn mourning over its death. These sexual or violent games from his childhood are not likely to be limited to Do’s experiences alone. Most of us can vaguely remember indulging in sadistic acts of sexual love against a doll. Rising above a child’s simple curiosity, it is an intuitive game of the senses we play by ourselves. In a number of Do’s paintings, sticky liquid can be observed dripping down a doll’s face. This brings back recollections of the life inside our mothers’ womb where we were also enveloped by mucous waters, like the amniotic fluid. It refuses contact with the anything, and nothing wants to touch it either. The shape of such a mucous liquid is a protective layer sheltering the intrinsic identity and desires of man. It is also a substitution that satisfies the ego’s instincts otherwise suppressed by social norms. The dolls’ eyes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Price Upon Request