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Will You Still Love Me
by Carolyn Weltman
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26.000 x 39.000 x 1.000 inches
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Title
Will You Still Love Me
Artist
Carolyn Weltman
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
This is one of the most challenging and controversial of my paintings and I hesitated before loading it onto FAA. However, it is a deeply personal painting that took me several months to complete. I began it arriving home from my first solo show in New York which was heavily attended. I am a shy person (as is my character in the painting) and do not do well in crowds. Especially when the focus is on me. The painting is about being focused on and about being tied up in our own egos and self worth. It is about the way society treats those who they do not fully understand or who do not meet the, "norm". It is about our own feelings of self worth. Sometimes I felt as though this painting painted itself. She is cut above her breasts which is a practise that many indulge in to feel the physical pain in order to lessen the pain of the heart.
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June 20th, 2014
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Comments (13)
John Houseman
So very bizarre! Do you like Francis Bacon? There's a trace of his paintings in your work.
Carolyn Weltman replied:
That's such a huge compliment, John thank you. I have idolised Bacon since I was a child.
Barry Lamont
WOW! stunning work Sophi.. There is very little I can say which Jana and Ed haven't said already.. so I'll leave it simply at STUNNING!
Sora Neva
Your drawing and painting skills are striking, Sophi, but ARTworks like this make us easily forget about the ART... -_- I'm saddened and ashamed to live in a country, and world for that matter, where most people still find the Other's Otherness unacceptable. Where the majority claims gender and sexual minorities threaten them and their children (but isn't this a paradox: how can a MINORITY ever threaten the MAJORITY?!?). To "defend" themselves they embark on wholly crusades, throw stones and raise fists, sign petitions and pass laws... all to deny human beings their basic rights (as they deny them to animals, but that's another issue). In many civilizations and cultures of the past the Divine Androgyne was revered as the symbol of unity and wholeness (and let's hope somewhere it still is OR will be again, in some near future!!!). I was born a femalelike female, but INSIDE I feel androgynous. I am both female and male, Anima and Animus, Yin and Yang! Psychologically speaking, this holds true for all individuals, just to varying degrees. It's sad when someone is not aware of it... Exactly a century ago, in 1913, Guillaume Apollinaire wrote L'antitradition futuriste: manifeste=synthese (Futurist Anti-tradition: Manifesto=Synthesis), and I love to repeat his amazing auspice, among others, for a new age of "integral feminism or innumerable differentiations of the sexes"!!!
Carolyn Weltman replied:
Sora, you constantly amaze me with your insight. Do not be ashamed or saddened to live in this world however people react. They react through fear many times. And through ignorance. Which means those of us who are not fearful of who we are should gently lead and guide those who are. How better to do it than through our artwork.
Carmen Tyrrell
Carolyn, glad to come across with you and your art here. Your style and portfolio are impressive.I like Your direct and powerful message. This painting is one of my Fav.....it is about confusion...questions...
Carolyn Weltman replied:
me too you, Carmen and thank you so much. i hope you got my email that i sent from your website.
Ed Meredith
Carolyn, you knocked this painting out of the park… the angst of who we are and how we fit in, is expressed beautifully in your sense of line and movement… and totally reinforced by the conflict of the physical image illustrating how deep and complex that struggle is or can be…
Carolyn Weltman replied:
Ed, thank you for getting it so completely. I was very nervous to post this piece in FAA. Your support and encouragement is making me much braver.
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