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Post by Lori on Jul 14, 2005 15:05:08 GMT
This Woman's Work
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Post by CopyOfCpt (just say Cor) on Jul 14, 2005 19:49:10 GMT
Ah, I like this one. The artist has captured Kate well as a portrait with her smarting. The song is actually written from the male perspective, as we all know but I'll forgive this (am I not good ? ) As far as technique goes, I suspect this isn't oil but some sort of crayon. For me it portraits the porte of the song as well. I don't know the lyrics by heart so what the hand at the left is doing there I don't know, but it doesn't look like a helping one... I like it..
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Post by Adey on Jul 14, 2005 23:52:33 GMT
Great painting. The sense of joy one may usually expect on the cradling of the new born is tempered by the slightly macabre nature of the image..
The darkness and the sombre feel of the surroundings are at odds with the usual post partum bedside of cleanliness and dazzling whites of the maternity ward. Darker and more secret somehow than my mental image of the words in the song.
Do I catch a suggestion of religeous symbolism - perhaps recalling the classic Mary/Jesus nativity scene - with the hand of God reaching for the Madonna & Child?
Given the fact that Kate herself later gave birth to a child, obviously makes this painting particularly fitting and more resonant to us as admirers of hers.
I'm forced to wonder what the hell Kate herself makes of it? Given her apparent taste for macabre art, I'd be prepared to believe that she loves it.
btw - I apologise for sounding like a pretentious, self appointed/annointed, anally retentive officiando on an obscure TV arts programme..
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Scott
Reaching Out
Get out of my house
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Post by Scott on Jul 15, 2005 0:31:07 GMT
What are your plans for this???
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Post by matanchik on Jul 16, 2005 9:46:23 GMT
i love it. but kate looks kinda old in this one
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Post by Lori on Jul 16, 2005 10:45:35 GMT
i love it. but kate looks kinda old in this one You prob's won't approve of 'Jig of Life' then
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Post by matanchik on Jul 16, 2005 11:40:25 GMT
actually i like the old kate idea in jig of life because it connected to the song
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Post by cygnusx1 on Jul 16, 2005 15:34:50 GMT
This one was very much inspired by the video on a fundamental level, and also from being with my wife during childbirth. It's the feeling that however close the man may physically be to her while she is going through that ordeal she's behind this (metaphorical) screen and he is unable to bridge that distance into her experience. That sense of having to helplessly stand back and observe while she is in pain.
Someone mentioned religious symbolism. I think that I tend to have a lot of, often subconscious, references to classical pieces in my pictures. I would say that there is a definite nod to Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling in here too.
- Herb -
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Post by Neo Stella on Jul 16, 2005 21:32:41 GMT
Herb, may I say how thrilled I am to not only see your work displayed here but to have you posting also. I am certain I speak for all members in thanking you for allowing permission for us to see your beautiful art here.
You are without doubt a most talented artist whom I cannot imagine any of your subjects being less than impressed with your representations of them and their work.
I wish you well in your future projects, perhaps one day I can commision you for a book cover.
Regards, Doug.
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Post by Adey on Jul 20, 2005 0:18:40 GMT
Herb - Rush fan?
Thank you so much for allowing this superb body of work to be reproduced here, and for taking the time to come and talk with us about it.
Obviously as admirers of the model we may be an easy sell, but I was genuinely excited by the collection.
Thanks again.
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mizzshy
Reaching Out
"Oh darling, Make it go, Make it go away..."
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Post by mizzshy on Jul 25, 2006 9:37:45 GMT
I think this painting is amazing. It really brings home the helplessness of the woman and the detail on the newborn baby is wonderful!
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