Luise Fong
Artwork Detail
For Luise Fong painting can be seen as metaphor for the body. Its drips and stains are like the body's own fluids, and its surfaces like the skin that contains them. The body is presented in Fong's works as site of both seduction and violence, eroticism and mysticism.
-William McAloon, from 'home and away' exhibition, 1999
- Title
- Virgin
- Artist/creator
- Luise Fong
- Production date
- 1994
- Medium
- acrylic, ink, gouache, and enamel on board
- Dimensions
- 2040 x 2565 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Chartwell Gift Collection, 2014
- Accession no
- 2014/8/1
- Other ID
- C1994/1/528.1-3 Old Accession Number
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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