Venus (I)
Venus ICategory: Selected Recent Paintings by Chris Gollon
Price: £3800
Artist: Chris Gollon
Subject: Early Thoughts
Year of Work: 2008
Media: acrylic on canvas
Size: 36" x 24"
Price: £3,800. This painting is part of the series entitled 'Early Thoughts' (see What's On for details). In preparation for his Fellowship & Residency at the Institute of Advanced Study in early 2009, Chris Gollon begins six months before to explore his own general idea and early thoughts on the Fellowship's theme: 'Being Human'.
With Apollo, Chris started to look at the gods mankind has created, and those who like Apollo got left behind, as civilizations changed. In a similar fashion, he has painted Venus 3 times, and one painting also as the end of love or life entitled 'And in the End'.
Despite the face covering, she seems to be looking at us, or striding toward us with vitality, as Gollon's previous Apollo, like a superhuman being, if not a god. The colours on her body are very beautiful as is the paintwork and flesh tones of her thighs. The vagina is not as realistic as Courbet's famous 'The Origin of the World', but has that same mysterious power.
Chris Gollon is developing a very unique and stylized anatomy in these figures, using a large degree of abstraction, yet retaining some degree of the representational. It imbues these figures with a strange but sculptural 'essence' of Woman or humankind. This technique is helping him develop a way of using figures like these to describe ideas, as he prepares for the 'Being Human' Fellowship next year.
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