Pauli Little
Kensington And Chelsea, Fine Art
The key themes of my work are those of wit and enjoyment.
I am concerned with the naked, rather than the nude, female figure. The distinction between nude and naked, made by John Berger, in his book of essays, Ways of Seeing, interests me. My earlier paintings have been of groups of people injoying social situations, in modern dress, in city venues. Now I am painting groups of women, again enjoying social occasions, but now naked or partly clothed and transposed into an incongruous situation.
What interests me about these groupings is the way the women are in interaction with eachother and are unconcerned with their nakedness - almost liberated by it. In addition they are aware of each other and happy to be unadorned.
Male artists of earlier centuries, when painting women, usually showed them as objects, sometimes as hostile, sometimes as subservient, almost always as sexual beings. I am concerned with the women of today who are neither hostile or subservient, but frankly happy, having fun and being equally valuable in society. In addition I have taken the women away from their traditional settings of domesticity, or nature, or the brothel/artist's studio, and put them in the exciting, transient environment of a modern city with its many symbols and s...
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