Another Thorny Crown series: Gray J  - Margaret Bowland This is not a hair inspiration but an introduction to an artist who came into my world and aesthetics today. So exquisite, it floats not just in light, form and color but in thought.The concept of beauty for the minority woman…the little girl. It’s something I’ve struggled with in my teens. Eventually with age, I realized that I am beautiful as most women are in this world (in their own way). Beauty was not meant to be caged or owned. One day I hope to own a print. Perhaps if I’m lucky…an original piece? Will definitely attend an exhibit when it comes back to Los Angeles Artist Website: http://www.margaretbowland.com/ Source: http://www.margaretbowland.com/paintings/painting17.html Referral: http://www.womanist-musings.com/ Artist Statement: Art was until very recently a search for visual harmony – Picasso’s “lie that makes us realize the truth.” That lie was compositional, spatial harmony. But what was that truth? We no longer have any faith in Truth capitalized. Plato says in The Sophist that “by the art of painting we make another house, a sort of man-made dream product for those who are awake.” I believe in those houses, that in this illusory space our stories unfold. This space holds as much power now as it ever has. The human psyche still dreams, those dreams are still our stories, and within these stories our consciousness is revealed. I need art to be the story, in visual terms, of what happens to people. We inhabit a purely relative world, in terms of belief structures, yet each of us knows and in a sense, believes in, the need to be beautiful. My work is about beauty—what it means to be beautiful and what significance the idea has in the twenty-first century in the world of art. We all know that being beautiful is as important as being rich, that being beautiful is itself a form of wealth. One must be tall, thin and white. One’s features must be diminutive and regular. We recognize deviations from this norm, but recognize that these deviations, even if appealing, are far from ideal. The need to be beautiful fuels one of the largest and most ruthless industries in our world. Beauty makes sense to me, has weight for me, only when it falls from grace. It starts to matter when it carries damage. Sorrow allows it to cast a shadow. It becomes three-dimensional. It enters our world. More ——->

Another Thorny Crown series: Gray J  - Margaret Bowland

This is not a hair inspiration but an introduction to an artist who came into my world and aesthetics today. So exquisite, it floats not just in light, form and color but in thought.The concept of beauty for the minority woman…the little girl. It’s something I’ve struggled with in my teens. Eventually with age, I realized that I am beautiful as most women are in this world (in their own way).

Beauty was not meant to be caged or owned. One day I hope to own a print. Perhaps if I’m lucky…an original piece? Will definitely attend an exhibit when it comes back to Los Angeles

Artist Website:
http://www.margaretbowland.com/

Source:
http://www.margaretbowland.com/paintings/painting17.html

Referral:
http://www.womanist-musings.com/

Artist Statement:

Art was until very recently a search for visual harmony – Picasso’s “lie that makes us realize the truth.” That lie was compositional, spatial harmony. But what was that truth? We no longer have any faith in Truth capitalized. Plato says in The Sophist that “by the art of painting we make another house, a sort of man-made dream product for those who are awake.” I believe in those houses, that in this illusory space our stories unfold. This space holds as much power now as it ever has. The human psyche still dreams, those dreams are still our stories, and within these stories our consciousness is revealed. I need art to be the story, in visual terms, of what happens to people.

We inhabit a purely relative world, in terms of belief structures, yet each of us knows and in a sense, believes in, the need to be beautiful. My work is about beauty—what it means to be beautiful and what significance the idea has in the twenty-first century in the world of art. We all know that being beautiful is as important as being rich, that being beautiful is itself a form of wealth. One must be tall, thin and white. One’s features must be diminutive and regular. We recognize deviations from this norm, but recognize that these deviations, even if appealing, are far from ideal. The need to be beautiful fuels one of the largest and most ruthless industries in our world.

Beauty makes sense to me, has weight for me, only when it falls from grace. It starts to matter when it carries damage. Sorrow allows it to cast a shadow. It becomes three-dimensional. It enters our world.

More ——->


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