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Artist
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Sue Vesely |
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Dimensions |
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120 x 90cm |
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Description |
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Original Oil Painting |
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Oil on Canvas |
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Price |
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£2,750.00 Click here to purchase
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Artists Statement |
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b. 1953
Educated at the Royal College of Art, London.
'I use images of statues to represent the idea of the body as a monument to itself and our culture, and images of real, fleshy bodies to represent emotional life. The winged figures represent that part of our thought that refuses to be material and finite. My work is quite thickly painted; more textural that it might appear when seen on the screen, the work evolves on the canvas and often changes completely from my first idea, during the process of painting. I do not need to make preparatory solutions for painting and I do not use a human model. I have a 3-d model in my head.
I am influenced by early memories of spaces and light and by ideas I have heard about human consciousness and identity. I want to seduce the viewer to look, then to realise that he is seeing something which is more than natural. I'm interested in the idea that I can use existentialism to dig into the viewer's subconscious. If I paint things that the viewer thinks he has seen before as part of his own life, then the feeling is that the picture includes him in it's reality. Then I can show him my constructed reality. Many people say my pictures remind them of their dreams, so I think it works.
Occasionally I have the experience of a fully-fledged vision in dream form. When that happens I sometimes use it for a picture. The process is not usually that direct or simple. Normally, I have to think of a subject and start to respond to it consciously, looking for a visual equivalent to the emotion. That's where existentialism comes in. I imagine the space that would make me feel that way, via the proximity of objects and the sensation of movement.
When people have a powerful dream that is a dream of new experience, the mind is practising to cope with things that might happen; things we may know about intellectually but have not experienced first-hand; for instance, what it is like to lose a child or to kill someone. These memorable dreams are profoundly affecting and quite infrequent. I think my paintings have a little bit of that effect on the viewer, and that is what is meant when people say that they are reminded of their dreams.' |
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