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- Circus Mother and Child
Original artwork description
This is a parodic treatment of Renaissance/Baroque era Nativity or Christmas paintings. The world and sensibility described in that theological genre is here transposed into the poetuc of early modernism with its fascination with circus and Comedia del arte themes and motifs.
Materials used:
oil
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 91.44 x 121.92 x 3.81cm (unframed) / 91.44 x 121.92cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Unspecified
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#circus#christmas#nativity
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Original artwork description
This is a parodic treatment of Renaissance/Baroque era Nativity or Christmas paintings. The world and sensibility described in that theological genre is here transposed into the poetuc of early modernism with its fascination with circus and Comedia del arte themes and motifs.
Materials used:
oil
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 91.44 x 121.92 x 3.81cm (unframed) / 91.44 x 121.92cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Unspecified
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#circus#christmas#nativity
Paul Rossi
United Kingdom
About
I work in oils, goauche, charcoal, pencil, pen and ink, and less frequently, in acrylic and watercolour. My work takes a figurative approach to space and tends to revolve around... Read more