[Vwoolf] Fwd: Fw: Virginia Woolf paintings

[Jeannette Smyth]

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> From: Jeannette Smyth <jeannette_smyth at earthlink.net>
> Date: May 9, 2015 1:32:02 PM MDT
> To: Kristin Czarnecki <Kristin_Czarnecki at georgetowncollege.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Fw: Virginia Woolf paintings
> 
> I think the drawing and painting adds three dimensions to the famous photographs. it's very sensitively done and adds to my knowledge of what Virginia Woolf looked like. The words in her hair could possibly add to the flattening, iconographic, headstone affect photographs, as well as pull quotes, add to three-dimensional figurative graphics. Whether or not I like the push pull between the sensitive paint lines and the flattening but interestingly handwritten quotes is eluding me right now. But thank you, Mr. Brown, for doing this and sharing it with us. If I think of it as poster art, yet again my response changes.
> 
> Jeannette Smyth
> 
> 
> On May 8, 2015, at 6:11 AM, Kristin Czarnecki wrote:
> 
>> Good morning,
>> 
>> I received an email and the attached images recently from David Brown, an art student in the UK. He said he'd love to receive comments on the artwork from Woolfians, and so I'm sending the images along for all of you to see. 
>> 
>> David writes, "For my final exam portfolio portrait I have produced a pair of paintings of Virginia Woolf, the younger woman in watercolor, titled Wave of Words, and the older Virginia in acrylic titled The Waves. It is not too clear with this photo but in the first picture Virginia's hair is streaked with words from her books, and in the second picture quotes from The Waves.  I have tried to make contemporary pictures of Virginia, and I have incorporated words into a number of my portraits over the last couple of years."
>> 
>> If you would like to write to David, his email address is davidbrownhart at hotmail.co.uk.
>>  
>> 
>> 
>> Kristin Czarnecki
>> President, International Virginia Woolf Society
>> Associate Professor of English
>> Georgetown College, Pawling Hall 110
>> Georgetown, KY 40324​
>> 502-863-8132
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