Kadri Alesmaa
Christmas Always
| Artist: | Kadri Alesmaa Visnap (1970 - ) |
| Title: | Christmas Always |
| Date: | 2001 |
| Technique: Material: |
lithography paper |
| Height (cm): | 57.0 |
| Width (cm): | 76.0 |
| Dimensions: | sheet size |
| Description: | Christmas Always shows an image of a winged woman, holding a child in her arms. She could be an angel taking care of the newborn Messiah, the Virgin Mary with Christ, or both of them at the same time. The pictorial language of the work plays with the iconography of mass culture: today the subject itself, the baby-pink background and ornament of notes have become banal instead of being happy and touching, and developed into symbols for the Christmas industry and for Christmas kitsch. The artist has further developed the same motif in the composition “Angel's Wife" in which a shining and single femme fatale is juxtaposed with a gentle and motherly female figure. In the Middle Ages the question of the existence or non-existence of angels was a source of great theological debate. The title Angel's Wife indicates one of the potential solutions to the problem. Elnara Taidre |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Prints and drawings collection |
| Collection number: | G 28317 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 49950 |
| Muis reference | http://muis.ee/museaalView/253635 |
| File info: |
Source type: digital photography File type: TIF Compression: Uncompressed File size: 28.60MB Resolution: 3736*2674px @ 300dpi |
