by John Gorman

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Frenhofer's model paints herself

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Frenhofer's model paints herself 85×65, chalk, khadi paper This is more than astonishing. The play of portraits-in-the-portrait, mirrors, changes of scales… John’s models now pose like in Picasso’s ”Studies for Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”, with more angular figures, narrow waists, large buttocks but their contours are curved or sharp… Sharp are the breasts, also, and John’s unique spiral hatches for ”THE model”! I think of so many works… Picasso, ”Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe after Manet”, 1960, Musée Picasso, Paris, is here in all its variations… The Satyr or Faun – Frenhofer –, observes the scene, impassive… It is a philosophical brothel. Like all the scenes in Frenhofer’s studio, and as John is also a philosopher. Prix de la Presse, Galerie Thuillier, Paris, 2020

Artwork Details

Medium: Drawing Other

Genre: Figurative