"The length of my bathing suit"
The length of my bathing suit" was inspired by a photograph from 1925 "Smokey" Buchanan from the West Palm Beach police force, measuring the bathing suit of Betty Fringle on Palm Beach, to ensure that it conforms with regulations introduced by the beach censors. Next to it are Beach girls on stilts inspired by a 1950 photograph. The girls are athletic and wearing form fitting colorful bathing suits, like lollipops, eye candies on a stick. This painting is about women's rights. The right to wear what we want, when we want it. Woman's fashion always reflects the world we live in. Women have always been told what to wear, and how to wear it. Conservative or Liberal. An ongoing battle. This painting is also inspired by "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe" of Édouard Manet created in 1862 and 1863 . The artist in this painting doesn't depict a nude but a naked figure contrasting with the male figures fully clothed in their modern Parisian men's suit. Once again the woman's body is the center of the outrage.
"The length of my bathing suit"
Acrylic, mixed media with collage of recycled materials on canvas
48”x 60”” (121,92 cm x 152,4 cm)
$5,500