洛杉矶画家、爵士歌手杰萨琳•布鲁克斯用块状、色彩丰富的抽象手法描绘了女性形体的轮廓。她的绘画充满了工业的浪漫:机械、形状、体积和运动。
布鲁克斯描绘的是强壮、棱角分明、身体丰满的女性。艺术家没有把重点放在柔软的胸部或桃色的背后，而是更喜欢画出我们有时忽略的女性形体的独特但几乎是下意识的轮廓。这包括足弓和手掌，臀部和大腿之间的裂缝，或腋下和胸部之间的空间。受立体派几何线条的启发，布鲁克斯的绘画以充满活力的现代女性为焦点;提出了一个关于美的理想、体型和性别的重要问题。她在一次采访中指出:“在艺术史上，女性形式在艺术中生活和休眠了很多次。”她说:“我相信女性现在正处在一个重要时刻。这是人类历史上最强大的一次。我想记录下来。”
Los-Angeles painter and jazz-singer Jessalyn Brooks paints the contours of the female form with blocky, colorful abstraction. Her paintings are informed by the romance of industry: machinery, shape, volume, and movement.
Brooks paints strong, angular and mostly full-bodied women. Rather than focus on supple breast or peachy behind, the artist prefers to paint the distinctive but almost subliminal contours of the female form that we sometimes neglect. This includes the arch of the foot and palm of the hand, the cleft between the hip and thigh, or the space between the underarm and breast. Inspired by the geometric lines of Cubism, the early-20th-century art movement made famous by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, Brooks’ paintings have a vibrant and modern female-focus; bringing forth an important question of beauty ideals, body shape and gender. “The female form has lived and gone dormant in art so many times throughout art history”, she notes in an interview. “I do believe women are having a moment right now. This is the most powerful we have been in human history. I want to document that.”
Author: © Jessalyn Brooks
Photography: Jessalyn Brooks