PP7 - The girl from Venice

XL painting inspired by beauties of Art and Architecture of Venice, Italy. Let yourself be transported through the City of Doges, its palaces, its Art foundations, its biennale d’Arte, a fantastic journey that never ends as the painting always changes thanks to its silver pigments...

DESCRIPTION & DETAILS

Theme: Flowing Painting
Series: Presence painting season 1
Number: 7
Title: PP7-THE GIRL FROM VENICE
Date of completion: 2005
Place of realisation: Paris studio 3rd - SecretArtGallery
Signature: Front: Acronym (sjs) in a black paint - upper part central left - Back: James Arax
Mixed technique: Acrylic, colored pigments, glue, color ink on canvas
Support: Nylon canvas
Size: 78,70x66,93in I 200x170cm
Format: XL-FJA
Thickness: 3,5cm
Weight: 11kg
Area: 3,4m2 I Height: 2,00m I Width: 1,7m 

… This canvas shines and changes with the light and the weather outside because of its silver pigments. You have more than one impression in front of the canvas, depending on the weather and the moment of the day. This painting evokes the special lights in the City of Doges and the reflexions of the light in the Grand Canal of Venice.

For James the signs should not be too defined to convey the emotion. Here we can imagine both eyes, a venetian mask, eyelashes, eyebrows without one of these elements dominating the other. James put a shape that reminds venitian masks, inspired by Scaramuccia from the Commedia dell’Arte.

His model is a succesfull Art gallerist in Paris and Venice. While he was painting, James was listing to her stories about Venice, the marvellous Venetian art foundations.

The artistic result is vibrant and elegant.