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Greg Kerr - "My Three Models in the Cafe Voltaire" |
My Three Models in the Cafe Voltaire
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My Three Models in the Cafe VoltaireSorry but this work has already been sold. may be willing to undertake a commission.
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Oil on Canvas W: 600mm x H: 800mm x D: 40mm
Approx. Weight: 3kg This work is unframed Price US$ 1,325 SOLD Scale
Reference I-Art Gallery About "My Three Models in the Cafe Voltaire" This work, like most of my human-based imagery, is an exploration of the inner/outer dynamics of the human psyche. I like to think that people generate a descriable range of emotional and other anecdotal energy around them; that this energy bounces off other people and off the environment my characters inhabit. Simply put, I try to paint people in such a way as to show that they are not just objects in space but rather that they electrify and change the spaces they are in. The model for this work is my wife and her particular attitude to the world - sort of quiet and absorbtive, but also quite satirical, even cynical at times. Behind her is a screen or a painting or a view of nudes, landscape, oddities that are also part of my stock in trade as a painter. Above her is Francis Bacon's arrow - an acknowledgement of one major source for my pleasure in art-making. All these elements speak of my long love affair with the painterly, the mysterious, the evocative and the expressive in paint. And, it should be said, my long love affair with the beautiful woman I paint. The Cafe Voltaire was the venue for much experimental art in the Dada epoch. I like it as a venue for my muses. |
Greg Kerr
View all 42 works by Greg Kerr About Greg
Gregory Kerr: Born in 1949 and educated at Wits University, Johannesburg College of Education, Unisa and the University of Georgia. Was involved in formal art education from 1973 till 2000 when he resigned from his post as Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Stellenbosch. Since then has been painting full time and giving private art tuition to specialist groups in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Franschhoek, Plettenberg Bay and Port Elizabeth. His work ranges from the satirical (small drawings done in informal situations) to the monumental (large paintings of people and animals). Represented in numerous private and corporate collections in South Africa and abroad. Price Range US$ 105-3,976 Exhibitions Eighteen solo exhibitions since 1982. Most recent at I-Art, Cape Town and David Brown, Johannesburg in 2008. Numerous group exhibitions. Upcoming solo exhibitions at Knysna Fine Arts (19 February - early March, 2010 Pastel paintings) and Grand Provence, Franschhoek (8 August - 8 September, 2010 Oil paintings). Education BA (Hons) English Literature; BA (Fine Arts); H.E.D., Ph.D. People who chose Greg's work also chose work by: Find other: |
