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Reclining Nude... Modern Icons:imaginary portraits

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oil on canvas
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Angus-Gillett's avatar
Once again, studying your Icons. This one is much more melancholy than 'Marble'. The other figure twists with a sensual movement which invites you to hold her, to listen to her words. This one seems to offer herself to someone who won't come near or isn't there for her in the way she wants them to be. The way you play with the flat textures and symmetry of traditional icon painting is very interesting- because you insert a distortion of depth via the way she's framed and overtaken by the columns behind her, possibly as a phallic symbol paralleled by the tree which "grows" the further our eyes travel to her sex. Her eyes, hands, legs and the extremity of her sex are left outside the frame- as if to say that she is immobile in moving on, touching what she wants or satisfying herself, while the viewer is forced to regard her for her body and only the outer surface of sex, as if we are forced into the position of being a lover who regards her only out of animal interest, and not for the emotion in her eyes or her own deeper needs. 'Marble' attracts my sensuality, 'Reclining Nude' makes me reconsider my sensuality's depth of emotion.