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Mo Fontaine:
Picture "Icon Frida" (2023)
Picture "Icon Frida" (2023)
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Picture "Icon Frida" (2023)
Mo Fontaine:
Picture "Icon Frida" (2023)

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Acrylic, Other materials | Canvas, stretched on stretcher frame | framed | Format 50 x 40 cm (H/W) | picture hang up | signed certificate of authenticity

€3,380.00

incl. tax plus shipping

Delivery time: approx. 2 weeks

Picture "Icon Frida" (2023)
Mo Fontaine: Picture "Icon Frida" (2023)

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Picture "Icon Frida" (2023)

Frida Kahlo saw herself not only as a precious flower on the lapel of her husband Diego Rivera. In her art she staged herself again and again - as a sensual woman with a damaged body and as an exotic in the gesture of a 'Mexicanidad'. Her unsparing portraits oscillate between exotic beauty, sensuality, ugliness and physical frailty. Not only her paintings, but also her person enjoy cult status today: therefore, the painter also uses gold leaf (24 carat) for the picture background. Figuratively, the artist has approached this icon exclusively with the help of old photographs. The collaged, semi-naive flower applications are an expression of her 'Mexicanidad'. Incidentally, the young Frida was prettier in person than in her self-portraits. Frida Kahlo's self-portraits as models are a taboo zone for Mo Fontaine - untouchable.

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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