Jane Bustin

Artemisia

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Year 2020
Medium Acrylic on Japanese paper
Dimensions 29.8 x 21.1 cm

About the work

The watercolour is one of a series referencing the painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, Allegory of painting 1638, painted whilst she was living in London. 

As a reference, Artemisia had used the standard handbook of the time, Iconlogia by Cesare Ripa who wrote that painting should be depicted as:

'a beautiful woman, with full black hair, dishevelled, and twisted in various ways, with arched eyebrows that show imaginative thought, the mouth covered with a cloth tied behind her ears, with a chain of gold at her throat from which hangs a mask, and has written in front 'imitation'’.

Artemisia boldly eliminated the diminishing detail of a gagged mouth and instead made a self-portrait revealing a strong independent woman, artist and survivor, an embodiment of painting and one that could not be silenced.

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