Mo Fontaine:
Picture "Quince and cherries" (2022)
Picture "Quince and cherries" (2022)
Mo Fontaine:
Picture "Quince and cherries" (2022)
Picture "Quince and cherries" (2022)
Quick info
Acrylic | Canvas, stretched on stretcher frame | Format 60 x 60 cm (H/W) | signed certificate of authenticity
Detailed description
Picture "Quince and cherries" (2022)
Still lifes are timeless. For centuries, painters have dealt with the magic of these "quiet things" without pathos or weight of meaning. Viewed with empathy, the depicted objects are anything but still: in fact, they begin to talk and speak of becoming and passing, beauty and decay.
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.
