Antique Oil on Canvas Painting Showing Emotional Clown / Mime Masks by I. Weyts
Marvellous and good size work of theater art.
In the pre-television and pre-movie Arts and Crafts era much more was communicated via stage performers and via drawings and paintings. This naive style painting, in an artistic manner shows us some of the most recognizable of human emotions. Also because most people (circa 1900) could not yet read, clowns and mime players were some of the most important story tellers using body and facial expressions only. Most of them were so good at what they did that, even without words, everyone knew exactly what they were communicating. 'Floating in the air' and against the dark background these mime or clown masks...
Category
Early 20th Century Arts and Crafts Belgian Decorative Art
MaterialsCanvas, Velvet, Wood, Paint