Balance (2019)Oil painting by Gina Parr

The painting, ‘Balance’, stems from the Yin and Yang symbol of dualism from ancient Chinese philosophy. The symbol is widely taken as a way of illustrating how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected and interdependent in the natural world. However, in spite of being used to justify egalitarianism, in practice the concept behind them has led to justification of China's patriarchal history, particularly under Confucianism, where Yang as the male element and sun principle is considered superior to Yin, the female and submissive, dark principle. Hence men are afforded rulership and superior positions whereas women are not, unless under some remarkable circumstances they possess sufficient yang.
So it seems to Parr that there has been and continues to be, worldwide, little or no complementary equality in the gender world, only the proliferation of inferior yin and superior yang.

The Painting, from the Artist’s series “ The great divide “ explores Parr’s experience of being female and therefore stereotyped by society as being feminine, and the conflicts and questions often raised by this, as always with her painting, expressed through abstracted scape and form.

Materials used:

oil and charcoal on canvas

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 75 x 75 x 4.4cm (unframed) / 75 x 75cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Abstract
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky

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