Artist's Statement:
The model for this painting is now a fashion model in Chicago. While still in the Twin Cities, she posed for me for numerous paintings. One day, she arrived at my studio just after posing for a fashion shoot, still wearing beautiful flowers in her hair and an exotic scarf. I instantly took down the canvas I had been working on and set out to create an entirely different vision, which became this painting.
Oil on Panel
18 x 22 in
I know your soul. Everything else is just an ornament.
Roshani Chokshi
The Star-Touched Queen
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development,
invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe
Art as an Oasis™
Art as an Oasis is a series of occasional postings from the art of Carrie Kleinberger
providing a temporary respite from both mundane and monumental cares
complimented by words of wisdom from a diversity of others.
~ on the strength and beauty of the individual soul ~
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
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