When I first saw this image at the AGWA MoMA Picasso to Warhol exhibition I pondered …
Was it an old Master tired of being inundated by Rubenesque models? Was he pondering his ideal woman, sans curves? Or was he ahead of his time, and this was infact the first ever ‘nip and tuck’ blueprint? But then …
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| Sainte Sebastienne 1992 © Louise Bourgeois Trust |
I read it was painted in 1992 by the founder of confessional art, Louise Bourgeois, who’s sculptures draw on themes of anxiety, betrayal, loneliness and insecurity. Okaaay, so instead I pondered …
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Reading that she was a friend of Jackson Pollock’s, perhaps she was giving him a gentle ‘painting by numbers’ suggestion, on how to move gently forward from his ‘Jack the dripper’ paintings link into figurative art?
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Was she lamenting the modern day crop of willowy models, and longing for a more rotund time, … the arrows representing infills, rather than suction?
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Given that she’s produced the highest priced work by a female artist … $10.7 million … do plastic surgeons realise the potential they have in their daily procedures. Perhaps they should consider doodling on more permanent canvases?
- Or was it simply her premonition for the cast of Channel Ten’s Bikie Wars, who having completed the series, now have to lose all the weight they put on?
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