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Untitled (after Fragonard)

“I paint with materials”.

Anne von Freyburg’s practice rethinks textile and the decorative within the tradition of painting. It embraces and subverts the female gaze, the feminine and pretty. Historically, craft and decoration have been perceived as lesser than the “intellectual” fine arts. By combining them, von Freyburg challenges this underlying hierarchical system. At the same time, the artist reclaims the female history of textiles, the feminine, the pretty, decoration, the domestic and female nude.

Embellishment has been associated with the feminine, frivolous, and excessive, and was thus repressed within the rhetoric of Modernism. Detailing and fabric were viewed as decorative extras. ...

2020
fabric painting
150.0 x 110.0cm
IP2109
Text & images © Anne von Freyburg
Portrait of Anne von Freyburg by Barry Macdonald
Image of Untitled (After Fragonard) by Peter Hope

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