Épouvantail (autoportrait en crumbgirl), 2018

The artwork pledge

• GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
• GENDER EQUALITY
• REDUCED INEQUALITIES
• CLIMATE ACTION
• LIFE BELOW WATER
• LIFE ON LAND
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS

Tags

• Abstract
• Acrylic Paints
• Cosmology
• Dualism
• Europe
• France
• Gouache
• Hilma af Klint
• Hindu Mythology
• Landscape
• Metamorphosis
• Metaphysics
• Mixed Media
• Mythology
• New Age
• Oil Painting
• Painting
• Photography
• Portrait
• Salvador Dalí
• Spirituality
• Surrealism
• Switzerland
• Syncretism
• Video
• Watercolor
• Wool

About this artwork

With her characteristic humor, Vidya Gastaldon delivers a defiant female nude that is intended to serve as a scarecrow. Hairy legs, a muscular figure and pubic hair transmuting into a bird incarnate a powerful female figure emancipated from the male gaze. Citing Robert Crumb’s drawings of voluptuous women, Gastaldon pays homage to the cartoonist while considering representation of women throughout art history.

Presented at the exhibition Objets peints au feu de bois in Art: Concept, this work is a mixture of sacred, sensual, tongue-in-cheek and a provocative narrative. Allergic to any attempt to control and restrain her universe, she delivers a cosmic overview combining Hindi divinities, Muppet-Show characters, por culture symbols and Christian references.

More artworks by Vidya Gastaldon

• Vidya Gastaldon De l’amour avec du poil autour, 2012 Art : Concept €12,200 Buy now
• Vidya Gastaldon Floating Mountain 3 (Mt Hasho), 2006 Art : Concept €19,000 Buy now
• Vidya Gastaldon Healing Painting (Chasse aux esprits), 2015 Art : Concept €5,500 Buy now
• Vidya Gastaldon Healing Painting (Flower Poltergeist), 2014 Art : Concept €2,400 Buy now

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