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An imagined hang at The Royal Academy London
“The thing is, work has simply swamped my whole existence. Slowly but surely it's robbed me of my mother, my wife, and everything that meant anything to me. It's like a germ planted in the skull that devours the brain, spreads to the trunk and the limbs, and destroys the entire body in time. No sooner am I out of bed in the morning than work clamps down on me and pins me to my desk before I've even had a breath of fresh air. It follows me to lunch and I find myself chewing over sentences as I'm chewing...
Imagining the future.
Imagining the future.Placing different series of my work in juxtaposition with each other.If I could add the sculptures as well that would be amazing.The aerial view painting to the right was finished 2018, the other 2014, the flowers 2018 & 2019 as is the avenue of blossoms. #stephanieburns #womenartists #largepaintings #imaginedspace #creatingart #curatingart #artcurators #artcurator #londonartist #londonartgallery #londonartscene #flowerporn #artretrospective #futurepotential #artdreams #femalepainter #supportartists #futureprojects #artexhibition2020
Revisiting ideas and wandering around a theme
Revisiting ideas and wandering around a theme seems enticing after viewing the Picasso and Paper exhibition. Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass) – originally titled Le Bain (The Bath) – is a large oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet created in 1862Picasso later worked on his own version of a number of genre scenes by other artists of the past.I am interested in creating genre scenes with wildlife and climate change as the subject. Bringing together historical art references to a modern phenomenon.Genre paintings often had a moral tale and and underlying sense of doom for...
The word "odalisque" is French in form and originates from the Turkish odalık
Evening Waterlilies from 2019 and Odalisque 1999.The word "odalisque" is French in form and originates from the Turkish odalık, meaning "chambermaid", from oda, "chamber" or "room". It can also be transliterated odahlic, odalisk, and odaliq. Joan DelPlato has described the term's shift in meaning from Turkish to English and French:The English and French term odalisque (rarely odalique) derives from the Turkish 'oda', meaning "chamber"; thus an odalisque originally meant a chamber girl or attendant. In western usage, the term has come to refer specifically to the harem concubine. By the eighteenth century the term odalisque referred to the eroticized...
You can tell though I think that something dramatic had changed in my life.
Volley Ball and The Song of the Sirens.Two very different paintings created one year apart.But somehow similar in structure.You can tell though I think that something dramatic had changed in my life. I had a break down, a mental snap.Because I could visualise it in those first few weeks I thought I would paint what I felt was happening in my mind.Naturally I also did the sensible thing and consulted medical help. I was in therapy for two years after that event. It was very interesting to be able to paint such a unique event.It is one of the...