The Art of Ana Maria Plant
Part 7 -Red White
& Blue – Page 46
Ana Maria’s
latest series of paintings, entitled Red White & Blue, depicts the
sentiments of a group of junior schoolgirls in a briskly choreographed fashion.
Building on the rich variety of her previous work, she develops the qualities
of her brushwork and bold presentation to express the exuberance of her
subjects on their progress of discovery through London. Though not an
endangered species, the junior schoolgirl is in constant danger of being
somewhat ignored, and after a lifetime of experience with the said species, as mater familias and art teacher, no one
is better qualified than her to set them free.
Whereas the groups of figures in her earlier works were often in static
poses, here she presents them in a flurry of frantic action. Caught in the
whirling vortex of their social programme as they head off for their next
engagement, they certainly leave the viewer with a strong sense of perpetual
motion as they go dancing by!
TJP
2017
Forget-Me-Not