Mo Fontaine:
Picture "La Belle Florentine" (2020)
Picture "La Belle Florentine" (2020)
Mo Fontaine:
Picture "La Belle Florentine" (2020)
Picture "La Belle Florentine" (2020)
Quick info
Acrylic | Canvas, stretched on stretcher frame | Format 50 x 40 cm (H/W) | signed certificate of authenticity
Detailed description
Picture "La Belle Florentine" (2020)
"La Belle Florentine" is not originally a ritratto (portrait) in profile view , but a painted wooden sculpture by Desiderio da Settignano from the early Renaissance, which can be admired in the Louvre. Originally, the elegant patrician was supposed to represent a saint (Sancta Costanza). Using stylistic devices from the realm of icon painting, Mo Fontaine approaches the aura of the beautiful Florentine woman, giving her an upgrade as a ritratto with a precious feel.
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.
