• Lelia Pissarro - Recent Works
  • Lelia Pissarro - Recent Works
  • Lelia Pissarro - Recent Works
  • Lelia Pissarro - Recent Works
  • Lelia Pissarro - Recent Works
  • Lelia Pissarro - Recent Works
  • Lelia Pissarro - Recent Works
  • Lelia Pissarro - Recent Works
  • Lelia Pissarro - Recent Works
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"It took me many years to abandon the formal landscape painting tradition that I evolved in for most of my life and to move into a liberated way of painting where the representation of a subject no longer had any significance.

 In comparison with my figurative period, where I used to be seated for hours at an easel in a passive manner, these abstract works engage far more physical effort from stretching and preparing my own canvases, to the use of ladders to paint some of them, as they are mostly executed in large sizes."

 

"Today, I am attempting to make pictures that are non static, that reflect light, that move as the viewer moves around them; this is achieved by the use of glitters and the exploration of colour by mixing pigments and using the energy of light that reflects differently on the painting during day and night.

Symbolism:

Bernini - The Ecstasy of St Teresa
The Ecstasy of St Teresa, Bernini
Much of my work is an investigation into the way I perceive visions of sensuality, which I believe to be the basis of human existence.  For me, passion is the blood relation of eroticism, which results in a poetic contemplation that can be seen in one of my main sources of inspiration: “The Ecstasy of St Teresa” by Bernini. (see item 1)

My own expression of religious eroticism is represented by the minimalist colour shape, using the line to create a division of two colours: a simple symbolization of masculinity and femininity; the main colour is separated by a line that represents the arrow of divinity (the arrow in Bernini’s sculpture), combining a paradox of phallic symbolism with the colours that, I believe, are representative of femininity.

The Ecstasy of St Teresa (Detail) by Bernini
(Detail)
I am currently developing a permutation collection by using different combinations of colour, as an analogy for the meaning of intimacy, which varies from relationship to relationship, the starting point being the sexual and reproductive energy in which eroticism is the expression of attraction, anticipation, pleasure and delight.

I would like these paintings to be suggestive, entertaining, seductive; I am equally happy to leave free interpretation to the observer."

Lelia Pissarro

June 2007

 
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