ladiesupfront:Crying in Art, Part 213 Wendy Ramshaw Chain of Glass Tears for Weeping Woman Part of
ladiesupfront: Crying in Art, Part 213 Wendy Ramshaw Chain of Glass Tears for Weeping Woman Part of Wendy’s series of jewellery ‘Picasso’s Ladies’. Her first response to Picasso’s portraits was through postcards collected in adolescence. Wendy continues to avidly collect postcards, with their portability and pleasing palm-size, not dissimilar to jewellery. “‘Weeping Woman’, 1937, belongs to the series of paintings of Dora Maar. She weeps, expressing her sadness and grief. Picasso uses her to express a war-torn Europe. “The inspiration for the shape of the tears came from a segment of mauve glass with a droplet-like shape which was once part of a Victorian chandelier. This water shaped form was recreated in luminous glass in shades of blue and green. The double stranded necklace is strung to appear like a cascade of water drops. Over 100 of these glass droplets are hung on the steel of the necklace, achieving an apparently random effect. The necklace expresses my feelings for the beautiful Dora Maar who, according to the visual records of Picasso, wept many tears. The beauty of the colours detract from her sadness and crying. Dora Maar’s tears of sadness are lifted into another realm, a realm of beauty and joy, as one might find in a fairy tale.” Wendy Ramshaw Glass and blackened steel, series of four unique necklaces, 41cm x 9cm, 1998 Photo Bob Cramp -- source link
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