THE WOMAN IN RED textured palette knives oil painting Mona Edulesco

This is a cropped detail of my palette knife impasto oil painting The Carnival of Venice. Original has sold to an art collector from Hong Kong, as a... more

by Mona Edulesco

Title

THE WOMAN IN RED textured palette knives oil painting Mona Edulesco

Artist

Mona Edulesco

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

This is a cropped detail of my palette knife impasto oil painting "The Carnival of Venice". Original has sold to an art collector from Hong Kong, as a commissioned painting.


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The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia) is an annual festival, held in Venice, Italy. The Carnival ends with Lent, forty days before Easter on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday.
Masks have always been a main feature of the Venetian carnival. Traditionally people were allowed to wear them between the festival of Santo Stefano (St. Stephen's Day, December 26) and the start of the carnival season and midnight of Shrove Tuesday. They have always been around Venice. As masks were also allowed on Ascension and from October 5 to Christmas, people could spend a large portion of the year in disguise. Maskmakers (mascherari) enjoyed a special position in society, with their own laws and their own guild.
Venetian masks can be made in leather, porcelain or with the original glass technique. The original masks were rather simple in design, decoration, and often had a symbolic and practical function. Nowadays, most of them are made with the application of gesso and gold leaf and are all hand-painted using natural feathers and gems to decorate.
(source: Wikipedia)

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June 29th, 2019