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"La Femme Fatale"


#3096 - Studio Painting - Please Inquire
Painting Size: 48 1/2" x 77"

Assemblage and acrylic on canvas.

At first you think, what is this woman doing in jail, Blue Sky says in describing La Femme Fatale. Then you realize it is the bars on the back of a truck and she is on a poster advertising a movie. Using his ubiquitous truckers verbiage, this time painted primarily in French, La Femme Fatale seeks to reflect on the Feminist Movement with it's subtle and yet literally in your face symbolism. The bars appear as a jail; the door near her forehead is inscribed with the message Keep Closed - yet it is unlatched; the Anti-Sail mud flaps note the mood of the times as they once were whereupon the title is delineating the idea of a free woman of thought:

"La Femme Fatale"
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