Jean Diver
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Beschreibung
Living in Mythology
Jean Diver - Paintings - 2019
JEAN DIVER
Throughout history, mythologies have provided an explanation for understanding the human condition. Myths serve as a means to find meaning in a seemingly chaotic and often senseless world.
Delaware-based artist, Jean Diver looks to ancient mythologies as her thematic repertoire in this current body of work. Diver investigates the ideas and practices of modern myth-making. Using a nonlinear structure, she depicts abstract and representational forms.
Diver’s influences include symbolist artists Odilon Redon, Gustav Klimt, and J. W. Waterhouse. She also looks back to the narrative based works of illustrators N.C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle.
Diver’s current work is filled with symbolism and metaphors. Her paintings fluctuate between past and present, a pictorial convention of landscapes and abstract color fields. In this body of work, Diver‘s mythological narratives are set in romantic landscapes of fall and spring - young males, a young girl, and a black pug and cat are her subjects. Her work is a mix of the romance of projecting wishes for a better future to the humor of bad luck.
According to Diver, “For me, art has always served as a portal – something that takes the viewer to another place.”
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