The Figurative Edit
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igurative art has played a central role in art for tens of thousands of years – from the simplest
snapshot of a singlemoment. For such fragile objects, the bubbles provide a powerful metaphor for our fleeting time on Earth and have been a recurring theme in his art since 2009. However, their meaning has changed subtly over the years. Frompainting a subject in profile, blowing a bubble, as we see in the painting Café de Paris, it has developed into playing a greater role in the story. “They are used to
cave paintings tomodern representational studies of the human form. Weaving its way through
reference life and death, to depict amoment in time,” says Kinsman, who is not only a self-taught artist, but also an accomplished and self-taught musician who has playedwith bands Kasabian and The Specials, as well as artists including Noel Gallagher. The ShallowDream shows a ballet dancer seemingly suspended in
history, figurativismhas been used to describe recognisable objects that provide verisimilitude. Andwhile some art lovers might enjoy heated discussions about where figurative and abstract art overlap, one thing is for certain; figurative art is a style that is linked strongly to the rules of perspective and proportion. For AndrewKinsman , who unveils his debut collection for Castle Galleries this spring, it is about capturing amoment. The self-taught artist, whowas commissioned in 2012 by the Royal Mail to paint 11 stamps to commemorate 150 years of League football, has produced four stunning pieces that drawon the same theme. The ShallowDream , After theDance , Lying in a Shallow Dream , and Café deParis explore the symbolismof life through bubbles – a pictorial depiction of the ephemeral nature of life, a
ANDREW KINSMAN
The immortalBirthofVenusbyfigurative masterpainterSandroBotticelli,completed duringtheearlyRenaissanceera
mid-air, as light as the bubbles that float above her, while After the Dance sees Kinsman take Titian’s 1583masterpiece Venus Of Urbino as his starting point, painting a dancer lying on the bed, staring directly at the viewer. A discarded tutu can be seen behind her and bubbles rise above her. “I wanted to develop the posesmore in this collection, so the ballet dancer is suspended by the bubbles while in After the Dance, she is looking at us, no longer a dancer. The bubbles depict
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