Title:
Prima Ballerina (Tamara Rojo)
Year
Created: 2005
Medium: Painting - Oil on stretched canvas
Width: 610 mm
Height: 910 mm
Price - Original: £ Sold
Price - Print: £59 - 900 mm H
x 600 mm W.
£49 - 600 mm H x 400 mm W.
Please note that these are unframed, signed, 'Open Edition Artist's Prints', printed at high resolution on heavy 225 gsm, Canon Embossed Art Paper, from my Canon gicleé printer, using UV resistant pigmented inks, hence they are lightfast. The sizes mentioned are rounded off so are approximate. Please see the Originals & Prints page for further details.
Description:
Produced in cooperation with Prima Ballerina - Tamara Rojo (Thanks Tamara).
"Queen of the Swan Queens - Tamara Rojo has dared more than any other ballerina - she makes an intensely feminine Swan Queen, with long, fine musical phrasing and tender emotional suspense; Acosta, a Siegfried of heartfels simplicity, seemed in rapt awe, sinking into her spell. As the doppelganger Odile, she made those famous stunts glitter, an arabesque frozen in time, fouettes of mesmerising speed and complexity. Seductive, audacious, Rojo knows what those stunts are for - to dazzle Siegfried and us with the temptations of evil." (Ismene Brown - Daily Telegraph)
Both the beautiful ballerina - Tamara Rojo and the background are painted entirely with a knife. A high level of contrast is provided and the colours made extremely rich, bold and lustrous, thus creating a very contemporary feel overall.
It's a large, very dramatic, passionate, emotive, moody and atmospheric figurative ballet dance painting that would not look out of place as a feature in a lounge, study, office, music room, conservatory, bedroom, hall, landing or similar room and be a focal point to be proud of.
See the image below of this artwork in one of my stock frames to get an idea of how it would look hung.
Contact myself for more information about this work of art, or if you would like to purchase a print. Obviously, the quality of the original painting and prints is much better than displayed here, though if you wish to make a closer inspection, please let me know of any specific area you're interested in and I'll e mail a higher resolution image to you.
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