Monday, July 25, 2022

Upon impossibility

 

As with Andrew Marvell's poem The Definition of Love, capturing the model as she turns from one position to another, verges upon impossibility. 

It has taken me a lifetime to say what I have to say in that never to be repeated split second with the minimum of lines and washes.

I can't remember which of my models was the subject of the painting that illustrates this post and my models are usually equally at a lose in identifying themselves in my work. But that in itself speaks of the universal and timeless beauty of the nude. Andrew Marvell's poem dates from the 17th century; my painting from the 21st.

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