2006 N°3

2006
oil on canvas

Style/Movement: Contemporary

WOMEN’S STORIES

Opera Gallery’s comprehensive exhibit Women’s Stories features the work of twenty internationally acclaimed masters and emerging contemporary painters and sculptors, who have chosen women as their subject matter.     Throughout history artists have captured untold images of women performing traditional household duties, conveying homage to their fathers or husbands, or sitting idyllically in romantic landscape settings. In the twentieth century and a more liberal society, the images of women changed not only on the canvas, but behind it as well. The exhibit encompasses a variety of media – oil, silkscreen, bronze and wood – and includes the irreverent and sensual paintings of MOZ, the gentle and feminine women in the art of CHAROY, KISLING and KELYNE, and the over-sized, dramatic portraits by CABELLUT. The styles of art are as varied as the simple lines that define WESSELMANN figures, to the shocking bald-headed women by avant-garde Chinese painter Fei LIU. Women’s Stories is on exhbit at Opera Gallery through May.