Acrylic on gessoed mounted aluminium panel, 12 x 12"
painting #275, 2019
On March 9 of this year, Barbie Millicent Roberts celebrated her 60th birthday. The following week, it was my wife Suzanne's turn to become a sexagenarian. This is my third Barbie painting. The first two were done when Barbie turned 50 and 55. This latest incarnation is a sister painting to the previous that also featured one of the two sewing patterns issued by Advance in 1961. The sewing pattern was the instigator that inspired the imagery and composition. It falls in the timeline when Pop Art became an art movement which drew inspiration from advertising among it's influences.
To view my two previous Barbie paintings - click on this LINK.
With the passage of time, Barbie keeps re-inventing herself and empowering the image of what it means to be a woman in 2019. Mattel has just released multi-race (in four skin tones) ''Judge Barbie'' - LINK. Part of Mattel's agenda has been to inspire girls to be anything that can dream of, and to break the glass ceiling. Even if at times some of their choices have been controversial over the decades.
Both Barbie and my wife share another commonality....at 60 years of age, they both still look Fabulous!
Currently on exhibition in a group show entitled- "Not a Creature was stirring.... Artworks to Deck the Halls" at the Fog Forest Gallery in Sackville, NB. from Nov. 21 - Dec. 31, 2019.
To acquire this painting please contact:
14 Bridge Street, Sackville,
New Brunswick, Canada, E4L 3N5
Phone (506) 536-9000
e-mail: janet@fogforstgallery.ca
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