| Melissa
Wilkinson 'Expressions
in Miniature Size' 2006 |
Casper, Watercolor
on Paper, 10 X 15 cms.
SOLD
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This body of work reflects the adolescent
preoccupation with male American celebrity. These miniatures are meant
to evoke the youthful fixation with masculine archetypes and the contrasting
beauty that we wish them to maintain. The watercolors replicate male
celebrity images taken from the Internet, distorted with multiple
computer programs, and then painted in scrupulous detail. They are
distorted in a way to elicit the weepy, viscous quality of watercolor
as well as the girlish, sentimental fantasy itself. The miniature
best reflects the desire to covet these men's images visually but
also the desire to be possessed by them physically. The arduous time
spent pouring over these paintings is metaphoric of the misplaced
fascination with American popular culture and the contradictions therein. |
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