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WATERCOLOR TUESDAY
A trip into your old dusty toy chest, nostalgic items painted in traditional watercolor and live tweeted on Tuesdays
LISA FOGARTY
Born 1983. Based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Self-taught artist with a childhood obsession with comic book girls. A woman painting women - using the female gaze to creating new archetypes. Exploring themes like mental health, trauma and beauty.
Influences include Alphonse Mucha, Modesty Blaise comic books, Gustav Klimt, John Bauer and Elsa Beskow.
"Lisas work is post-feminist and very personal. It layers contemporary, personal images of proud female beauty on top of historical stereotypical female documents, juxtaposing them and also overpainting them. Gentle, beautiful vandalism."
WHAT IS THE FEMALE GAZE?
In contemporary usage, the female gaze is used to refer to the perspective of the female viewer which is different from a male view of the subject. You might see a pinup style woman but she is painted from a woman’s perspective with the intention to empower the female viewer.
