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
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