adelaide damoah
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Love in Art and Frida Kahlo. A Personal Perspective.
Love is… Love, such a simple word, yet a word which has so many different connotations for different people. A word that has fascinated humans for a millennia and inspired so much beautiful art all over the world. Love, passion, desire, lust, longing. Before I even understood what those things were, Frida Kahlo taught me how one could use art to externalise them, to express them in a visual way. I remember studying her work at GCSE level, at about the age of 15. I was fascinated and astounded by her ability to punctuate all of her life experiences, the painful and the joyful in such a beautiful way through…
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Interview with Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf. The Next Big Thing
I first came across Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf’s work in 2009 when we took part in a group show at the Opera Gallery in Budapest called “British Art in the Twenty-First Century.” There were several other artists involved in the exhibition, but for me, the work that stood out the most was Rebecca’s work and I have been following her progress ever since, right up until her most recent success which was her inclusion in a reality TV show about art called “Show me the Monet.” Rebecca’s work entitled “June,” a self portrait got all the way through to the end, which meant inclusion in a big group show in Central London…
