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Miss Van's art has been in constant evolution for 30 years, from the young ladies that invaded the walls and streets of Europe with raw illustrative brush strokes in the 90s to the Surrealist exquisite muses living in oil-painted canvases today.
Miss Van started painting on the street of Toulouse alongside Mademoiselle Kat at the age of 18. Today, she is now internationally known as a street and fine artist. Primarily, her work is marked by the use of unique characters, called poupées, or dolls.
These are the uneasy muses of Miss Van, the French-born street-artist-turned-fine-art-painter who has spent the last 30 years or so amid an evolving stream of these woman, watching them grow from innocent yet alluring, chubby doll babies into case-hardened warrior babes even a band of fur-bearing fox-snakes couldn’t faze.
Sitting Still is the first in a three-part exhibition series exploring representations of girls in fine art. Focusing on painted portraits of girls, it showcases an impressive array of portraits that reflect upon the personal stories, experiences, and history of this group of girls and young women.
In her artwork, Miss Van typically depicts sloe-eyed women, covering a varied array of female forms and expressing many different emotions. [7] Common themes in her work include eroticism, sexuality, desire and innocence which are represented by animal masks, pastel colors, and revealing clothing.
16 mar 2024 · Van Gogh painted no fewer than thirty-five self-portraits and so became arguably one of the most recognizable faces in Western art. This exhibition will feature Van Gogh’s Portrait of the Artist (1887), which is on loan from Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
10 mar 2017 · From images of teens in the Middle East to un-retouched photos of girls of all sizes and ethnicities, these photographers are reclaiming the image of girlhood.
