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Click on a picture to see a larger version "Nudes and Food" I have been thinking about the earthly connection of women and food for some time and I am inspired to create this new series to suggest the intimacy and symbolism of different foods and the female psyche. I am having fun with this series and finally getting the figures to look the way I want. The viewers will bring their own interpretations to enhance the meanings, so I will simply offer the paintings and see what happens. -- Ezshwan "Throughout history artists have relied on nudes, food and landscapes for inspiration and interpretation. In Ezshwan's new body of work entitled Food and Flesh/Palette-able Pleasures, she blurs the image of food and body and their implications. The subject of food becomes a metaphor to the landscape of flesh (nakedness). The nude is more than a muse. The singularity of food more than a prop in a still life. For example; an empty banana peel lies at the feet of a sprawled female torso. The vulnerability of the flesh vs. the ironic comedy of life. The nude floats at the feet of "nuture mort", unguarded. In "Whipped Cream", the relationship between nudity and food is reversed; the figure is vigorous, commands the composition of the frame and of the cream. There is a lusciousness to her brush that helps provoke the sensuality of the subjects and the connotation we have with the foods in question. If we are indeed what we eat, this series arouses that cliche with refreshing candor, executed by a painter who know how to push paint and our views of the familiar." -- Cynthia Hamilton | |||||||||||||||||
