The Oscarine (Un-still Life)     Oil on canvas     70 x 60 cm    2003

 

The Oscarine (Un-still Life)

Painted in: Beijing (China) 

Author's comment: 

The Oscar (The Academy Award) is a small bronze, golden plated, statue aesthetically insignificant (looks like a body builder man!), awarded at Hollywood by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to the best movie, the best actor, the best actress, the best film director, etc. of the year.

If, instead of the Oscar the Academy awarded the Oscarine (women are, usually, incomparably more beautiful and more interesting than men!) actors, actresses,film directors, etc., would be much happier!

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Comment: 

"In Marco’s complex poetic universe, woman becomes a symbol of virtue in contrast with the vice pursued by men. It is here that a grim vision of man emerges, negatively connoted, now as an insipid politician, now as a filthy office manager. This is also the perspective of The Oscarine”, the female version of the Oscar Award. In fact, several times in the painter’s imagination the harmonious shapes of nature take on the physiognomy of female bodies: this is what happens in the canvas bearing the title “Similitudes”. (Dr. Sabrina Falzone)