Painting titled "Mannequin -6 : l'am…" by Andy Hudson, Original Artwork, Oil

Mannequin -6 : l'amoureuse Painting by Andy Hudson

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Original Artwork Painting, Oil on Canvas

Artworks classification

Original Artwork

Original Artwork refers to any work that is considered authentic and not a copy or imitation of the original works of an artist. Original artwork can be any type of painting, sculpture, performance, or other media. There are many types of original media. Mixed media includes oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings. For workshop paintings that bear evidence of master craftsmanship, this attribution must be further qualified. While they may be less valuable for different reasons, reproductions and copies have had a tremendous impact on our experience. They reach a greater audience than originals and act as a tonic against commodification. Original Artwork could also refer to the first work, which is always preceding all others. It could also refer to a prototype or a model from which other works can be made. Each work bears great similarities to the original.
Dimensions Dimensions are available on request
Categories Figurative

Huile sur toile :
This was something of a departure for me, in which the painting of the skin is the most important item. Given my predilection for showing brushstrokes and underlining the painterly approach, the need also to show the sensuality of the model was in this case going to be something of a challenge, because the dictates of the composition were such that this could only be achieved via the treatment of the skin.

I have brought the model so close to us that not even the whole of the face is capable of squeezing into the available space. At the same time the impression given is that of complete nudity, but we can’t be sure of that: she might just be wearing an off-the-shoulder item, the neckline of which is out of frame. From what little we can see of her, we get the impression that her proximity implies that she might be preparing, whether naked or otherwise, to make love to the viewer.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Oil

Paint consisting of pigments bound with linseed oil or carnations. The traditional technique consists of superimposing layers of paint increasingly rich in oil for a solid and durable hanger.

Figurative

Figurative and colorful painting having taken the liberty of including all forms of art without border of cultural genre and geographic origin, without hierarchy of values between high and subculture.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

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Mannequin

Andy Hudson

France

Andy HUDSON, British artist living in France, and a painter for 60 years, I received my formal education at an art college in England in the 1960s. I have now been permanently resident in France for 20 years. These[...]

These days all my painting is done in oil on canvas, although in the past I also worked in gouache on watercolour paper. Subject-matter mainly covers portraits and back views (vue de dos) of women, but also landscapes, some of which are of industrial and/or urban subjects. I continue to do life study, this mainly in pencil on high-quality cartridge paper.

Over the years I have organised groups of painters to go out "en plein air" and confront subject-matter directly: also to direct classes in life study. From time-to-time I have been invited to give presentations on various aspects of painting to schoolchildren and to adult art groups, both in England and in France.

Some years ago I provided a number of articles on drawing and painting portraits for the British art magazine Leisure Painter.

The En Plein Air group has not existed for many years now (June 2023, as I write), but I run 2 other groups of artists: my own painting group - Les Artistes de l'Atelier Violet-Bleu - meetings once a week in a studio in the Cloisters in La Rochefoucauld. I also run a life class that meets once every 3 weeks at a studio near Feuillade.

Profile: Andy Hudson, artist - painter - portraitist - author
Born Andrew Leonard Hudson in Chatham, Kent in 1946, I spent my youth in Kent and the bulk of my adult life in Wiltshire. After grammar school I trained as an artist then at a college of education, where I met the woman who was to become my wife. Unable to secure a teaching post on leaving college, I found work in the computer industry, where I remained for over twenty years till made redundant during the downturn of the early 1990s: then when desperate for work, in various call centres, before ending up in the vehicle leasing business.

During all this time I continued to paint and to hold one-man shows as well as participating in a number of prestige events with fellow artists at, among other venues, the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, and the Mall Galleries in London. I have come late in life to the business of writing, and the gestation of my book on painting, “The ham-fisted artist, or How not to paint”, was long and arduous. “Memoir of a moment in time”, was my first novel, and was written under the pseudonym Xavier Andyl, as are my short stories. I have various other projects in hand, including a series of essays on the work of other artists, looking at their work through eyes different from those of the conventional critic.

Now divorced and living alone in the Nouvelle Aquitaine (formerly Poitou-Charentes) region of France, I have three adult children and a grandson.

A painter for 60 years, I have exhibited extensively both with art groups and in one-man shows, and have works in collections in Britain, France, Holland, Canada, the USA and Australia.