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Mo Fontaine:
Picture "Cixi" (2022)
Picture "Cixi" (2022)
Picture "Cixi" (2022)
Picture "Cixi" (2022)
Picture "Cixi" (2022)
Picture "Cixi" (2022)
Picture "Cixi" (2022)
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Picture "Cixi" (2022)
Mo Fontaine:
Picture "Cixi" (2022)

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Acrylic, Collage | Canvas, stretched on stretcher frame | Format 60 x 50 cm (H/W) | signed certificate of authenticity

€3,850.00

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Delivery time: approx. 2 weeks

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Picture "Cixi" (2022)
Mo Fontaine: Picture "Cixi" (2022)

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Picture "Cixi" (2022)

This portrait cites Chinese court portraits whose dress code also reflects the splendor of the imperial court. Cixi (Chinese 慈禧) was a concubine of Chinese Emperor Xianfeng and became the most influential figure of the late Qing Dynasty. Cixi's rise to become an influential empress dowager already occupied the imagination of her contemporaries, as she began her palace career as an insignificant concubine in the Chinese emperor's harem. The artist painted the face as a likeness in the classical portrait mode and complemented the design with collaged elements. The reliefed picture background was leaf-gilded with impact gold. An object frame for material collages is recommended.

About Mo Fontaine

Mo Fontaine's work is all about color and its manifold expressions: from subtle to expressive.
In her still lifes, portraits and collages, she combines elements from different cultures and times, because she loves the European art of the old masters as much as the Japanese art of the 17th century. In this way, 'decelerated', magical-sensual images are created, which also transport the discredited concept of beauty. Seen in this light, some of the paintings seem to have 'fallen out of time' - not least because the paintings quite consciously refuse a fundamental category of the avant-gardes: the 'art of artlessness'. The aim is a timeless art that will certainly still function in two or three hundred years. She completed her artistic training at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen.
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