Picture "P.O.W.E.R. instead of dolls" (1900) New
Picture "P.O.W.E.R. instead of dolls" (1900) New
Quick info
Acrylic, Graffiti, Other materials | Canvas, stretched on stretcher frame | Format 120 x 100 cm (H/W) | picture hang up | signed certificate of authenticity
Detailed description
Picture "P.O.W.E.R. instead of dolls" (1900)
CLASS WOMEN DON'T HAVE TO EXPLAIN ANYTHING!
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She just sits there with her curlers. Made up, bored or pensive. Who is this woman? Suburban chick or successful activist?
When feminism and curlers are mutually exclusive, women are trapped - and not just these ...
Who actually says what is authentic and who is free? Self-confidence is the healthy knowledge of the "I am I".
Our pigeonhole thinking reaches its limits in Carola X's portraits of women. The striking green and yellow X is once again a statement: This is how it is! And who wants to tell me where I belong!
The interrupted lines, the intense coloration, the powerful brushstroke, the flowing color structures, the fine and coarse textures underline the statement beyond the norm. It is simply not clear who this woman is if she does not fit into any category.
About Carola X
My name is Carola Matthes. I live and work in beautiful Schleswig-Holstein, love the north, the typical atmosphere and all the weather here!
I didn't study art, but I'm not untrained either. Nowadays people say: I'm self-taught! That's fine by me! Painting has become an integral part of my life and I can't imagine life without it.
I LOVE PORTRAITS - ESPECIALLY OF WOMEN - WITH THEIR DIFFERENT MOODS AND THE INDIVIDUAL EXPRESSION OF THEIR SOULS.
When I want to tell a story or show an emotion, it's all about capturing a person in the way they feel. I don't want to describe unreal stories or paint deliberately good-looking women!
Prettiness is nothing! Beauty is a lot, but it's not everything!
So what really makes BEAUTIFUL? Authenticity / life satisfaction / dignity / self-love / ... that radiates from the soul!
And so all these strong and also contradictory women can be seen in my artworks: Mostly in a good mood, but also sometimes energetic to angry, sometimes very tender or sugar-sweet, sometimes thoughtful or just happy, sometimes crazy, melancholic or freaked out...
The backgrounds for the actual artwork are created in many steps. Different materials, areas of color, lines, collages, structures and overlays. As a result, the portraits of women I paint on them have the ups and downs, wrinkles, scars and dimples that an exciting life brings with it.
THE X IS MY SYMBOL, MY FAVORITE.
For me, an X is a statement - straight, clear, impossible to knock over and open at the top. Maybe that's why I've always been so fascinated by it. They're everywhere in my house, just like that, statements. So it's no wonder that the X has also crept into my pictures ...
Sometimes it says: "That's it! And that's it!" Sometimes it symbolizes the unsaid, which simply stands in the room and invites you to ask. It puts the icing on the cake in the statement of a picture, as a placeholder for everything that is upright, straight and open for the future. Just X!