Mo Fontaine:
Picture "Great thistle" (2022)
Picture "Great thistle" (2022)
Mo Fontaine:
Picture "Great thistle" (2022)
Picture "Great thistle" (2022)
Quick info
Acrylic | Canvas, stretched on stretcher frame | Format 100 x 70 cm (H/W) | signed certificate of authenticity
Detailed description
Picture "Great thistle" (2022)
Mo Fontaine's large thistle is not a snapshot, but a temporally condensed, spatially removed motif. The thistle, which must eventually pass away, fade, extinguish, depicts life itself - located somewhere between strength and fragility, weakness and aggression. In addition to the magic of melancholy because of its transience and the longing for beauty, this flower also transports an optimistic message: art does not wither.
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.
