Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.
Signed on the front.
"Concubine" is an amalgamation of women from films I admire such as "Memoirs of a Geisha" (2005) and "Hang the Red Lantern" (1991). Silent, elegant, ornamental, this stylized portrait represents concubines throughout the ages.
It started out as an abstract line painting, with the curved lines still visible in the surface texture and also in the lunette behind the figure.
The elongated style is influenced by 16th century Italian Mannerist painter Parmigianino. I studied Renaissance History at Oxford University and this artist was one of my favourites.