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| © Michael Banham-Taylor 2012-2023 |
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| La Révélation
de Diadumène |
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Acrylic on canvas
60 x 81cm
Framed
For sale |
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08
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| My hypothesis;- In his painting
‘Diadumene’, Edward Poynter based the central
figure on the classical sculpture known as the ‘Esquiline
Venus’ In the photographs taken by Brassai in 1939,
Henri Matisse positions his model in a very similar pose.
Matisse would have certainly used plaster casts of classical
figures for ‘life’ studies in his early artistic
training and later, would perhaps have been aware of Poynter’s
work. Although Matisses’s painting style is very
different from that of Poynter, I have no doubt he would
have admired Poynter’s meticulously painted lavish
patterns. My painting brings these elements together in
a pictorial essay. |
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