Picture "silent pause" (1900) New
Picture "silent pause" (1900) New
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Acrylic, Colour Spray, Graffiti | Canvas, stretched on stretcher frame | framed | Format 72 x 52 cm (H/W) | picture hang up | signed certificate of authenticity
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Picture "silent pause" (1900)
WHERE THERE IS A LOT OF DARKNESS, THERE IS A LOT OF ROOM FOR LIGHT.
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When you look at this portrait of a woman, you come to rest. The predominantly dark, subdued surface offers space to focus on the light-filled half of this face.
A woman whose gaze is directed inwards. A mixture of pensiveness, sadness and melancholy that calmly brings peace.
Wistfulness is nothing negative, but a kind of bittersweet reflection on the past.
Through the contrast of this dark and light portrait with the neon-colored graffiti elements and the impressive 12kg iron shadow gap frame, Carola X succeeds here in bringing life and strength into the room as a promise.
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!