Video: Floral funeral. Flower funeral of a Barbie doll, paintings by Peihang Huang
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A Barbie doll is a whole era in the life of every girl, big or small. But if little girls enjoy sewing clothes for their favorites, arrange walks and tea drinking for them, then the Taiwanese artist Peihang Huang with the same delight the Barbie doll … buries. So, a series of colorful paintings by this artist called Floral funeral - just about this, and it translates as " Flower funeral". A symbol of childhood and rainbow dreams, a symbol of ideal beauty and grace, the Barbie doll has always inspired the artist to be creative. But sooner or later childhood is replaced by youth, the time for other images and symbols comes, which means that you need to worthily say goodbye to those who all these years So Peihan Huang arranged a flower funeral for her beloved doll.
Not only the plot of this series of paintings attracts attention, but also the painting technique. Large, rough strokes of different colors are surprisingly harmoniously combined with each other, and as a result, they create vivid images on the canvas, really reminiscent of petals of multi-colored flowers. Someone will say that in these paintings there is no naturalness, there is no naturalism, but this is not required, because we are talking about a doll, which means that her world is unreal, fantastic, fabulous.
The artist lives and works in Taipei, her paintings are presented in art galleries in Taiwan, China, Japan and contemporary art museums in other countries. You can also get acquainted with the works of Peihan Huang on her website.
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