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Minneapolis (Stati Uniti)
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tel. 612.703.7678
email: tina@tinablondell.com
web: www.tinablondell.com
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Opere
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Upper Mississippi Valley Sicilian
oil
on
canvas,
168 cm x 56 cm cm,
2009
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Mr. Van Syke
oil
on
canvas,
99 x 152 cm cm,
2009
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Affliction: The Down Side of Up
oil
on
wood,
152 x 48 cm,
2008
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A Boy Named Sue
oil
on
board,
125 x 76 cm cm,
2008
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I Walk the Line
oil
on
board,
152 x 76 cm cm,
2008
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Urban American Gothic
oil
on
paper,
97 x 124 cm cm,
2008
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Midwinter Blues II
oil
on
board,
91 x 64 cm cm,
2007
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The Legacy
watercolor
on
paper,
91 x 71 cm cm,
2003
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The Genesis of Sin II
oil
on
board,
56 x 91 cm cm,
2007
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Venus on the Half-Shell
watercolor
on
paper,
88 x 144 cm cm,
2003
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These Boots Are Made For Walking
oil
on
board,
100 x 61cm cm,
2007
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Nuda Veritas
oil
on
canvas,
97 x 66 cm cm,
2000
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Mother with Child
watercolor
on
paper,
104 x 54 cm cm,
2004
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Venus of Minneapolis
watercolor
on
paper,
103 x 83 cm cm,
2003
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Roma Ladrona
watercolor
on
paper,
38 x 31 cm cm,
2002
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Biography:
Tina Blondell was born in 1953 in Salzburg, Austria, to an American father and Austrian mother, a child of the war/occupation. As a child, her father taught her to draw, and travels with her parents exposed her to art throughout Europe. Although early on she attended private art lessons and later took classes in painting, Blondell is essentially self-taught.
Crucial to her education as an artist, was her first-hand encounters with art during her childhood in Italy, particularly the work of Caravaggio, with its sense of stage-lit drama, and of Artemisia Gentileschi, whose powerful paintings and life as an artist and a woman had been recently rediscovered. Other influences that Blondell cites are Goya and Francis Bacon, both of whose paintings combine an emotional impact with a vision of the human condition. She notes, as well, her interest in the ornamented Secession work of Gustav Klimt. Blondell's involvement with earlier art informed both her technique and interest in narrative, and her quoting of images from the history of art in this painter's decidedly contemporary work.
In the mid 1990s, Blondell settled in Minneapolis (USA), where she continues to live, producing The Cradle of Civilization, a series of thirteen paintings which used the imagery of the egg and the female body, in an extended meditation on fertility and the sacred in women's lives. The series encompasses the ancient and the modern, ranging from the symbols of age-old cultures to the ongoing Eastern European tradition of geometrically painted Easter eggs.
In 1996, Blondell began a new phase in her work by producing a self portrait in watercolor. Deeply reflecting both her inner and outer life, the outpouring of work that began with that image continues with a panoply of female figures, all exhibiting a pattern on their skin that bespeaks both pain and transformation. Strongly imaginative, these depictions of mythic, biblical, and modern figures use the delicacy of watercolor to embody both a sense of vulnerability and of beauty emerging from the depths of difficult experience.
In 2000 Blondell began to re-familiarize herself with the medium of oil paints. Her current work depicts contemporary women from historical, folkloric, and mythological perspectives. A common thread to the new work is a focus on the interplay of light and dark elements – the chiaroscuro of the Italian masters who originally captured Blondell's imagination as a child growing up in Italy.
Blondell has exhibited her work widely including solo exhibitions at the Fraser Gallery, in Washington, D.C. and the Shelly Holzemer, in Minneapolis. Her work is in many private and public collections including the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Weisman Art Museum.
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Ultimo aggiornamento:
giovedì 11 Ottobre 2007
Visitatori dal
16/7/2007
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