series designation: the original. (index)
title: porcelain venus
medium: oil pastel over acrylic on canvas
dimensions: forthcoming
year: 2024.
status: retained.

archival record:
reclining female figure. classical venus pose. eyes closed. right arm extended. floral bracelet at wrist. left leg raised. drapery in deep green, burnt orange, cobalt blue, and crimson. classical column. landscape recession. mixed floral arrangement. ceramic urn. tea service. grape cluster. the pose appropriates five centuries of reclining venus iconography. the odalisque tradition is present. the chromatic application is not inherited.

chromatic inventory:
figure rendered in high-chroma rose, lavender, and teal. drapery in fully saturated primaries and earth tones simultaneously present. floral arrangement in full chromatic range. no tonal neutrality. no academic flesh modeling. chromatic correction applied in full.

the figure was not constructed. the figure was encountered. the painting is the record of that encounter.

filed under: rogue colorist. the original. contemporary figurative painting. chromatic gender critique. chromatic subversion. rococo precedent. boucher idealization. realist inquiry. courbet. the nude. odalisque tradition. orientalist inquiry. rochegrosse precedent.