Mo Fontaine:
Picture "Hydrangeas in overlay vase" (2022)
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Picture "Hydrangeas in overlay vase" (2022)
Mo Fontaine:
Picture "Hydrangeas in overlay vase" (2022)

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Acrylic | Canvas, stretched on stretcher frame | Format 80 x 60 cm (H/W) | signed certificate of authenticity

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Picture "Hydrangeas in overlay vase" (2022)
Mo Fontaine: Picture "Hydrangeas in overlay vase" (2022)

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Picture "Hydrangeas in overlay vase" (2022)

"Like the last green in color jars are these leaves, dry, dull and rough, behind the flower umbels, which do not carry a blue on them, reflect it only from afar. They reflect it tearfully and inaccurately, as if they wanted to lose it in turn, and as in old blue stationery there is yellow in them, violet and gray (...)". Rainer Maria Rilke's sonnet "Blue Hydrangea" served as the starting point for this large-format still life. The search for the beautiful in art, that beauty, gains depth through the aspect of the ephemeral. . The glass surface of the Art Nouveau vase in overlay technique also contributes to a mysterious impression through its elaborate multiple coatings and etchings.

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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