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Thierry Bal. From pregnancy to birth, growing up to growing old, Chantal Joffe's intimate portraits capture the evolving stages of life and (mostly) female relationships. Many of the...
May 26, 2018 · Joffe has looked to Modersohn-Becker for years: ‘It’s the way she paints the connection between mother and child, the baby breastfeeding and looking back at its mother. I hope we share that directness.’ Modersohn-Becker’s subject matter was unfashionable: she was a domestic painter and a painter of children.
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Aug 14, 2019 · Chantal took a photograph of her teenage daughter – 'who was looking particularly paintable in her striped top and beret' - and created this work based on the snapshot. The painting is a deceptively simple concoction of broad, gestural brushstrokes.
When Joffe paints herself, her harsh self-scrutiny seems almost brutal and the self-portraits carved out of anguish and uncertainty. Joffe’s gaze is never more emotionally penetrating than when it is turned upon herself.
Feb 26, 2016 · The artist Chantal Joffe talks about what she seeks to capture in a painting, how motherhood changed her, and why she is drawn to confessional poetry
Feb 23, 2018 · The painting reflects Joffe’s fascination with the American artist Willem de Kooning, in particular his ‘Door Cycle’ series of female figures (1964–66), which he painted on the surface of hollow-core doors that had been previously installed in his studio; Joffe’s painting is exactly the same size as those in his series.
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May 7, 2024 · Chantal Joffe has always painted the personal – for two decades, that’s often meant herself and her daughter Esme (she painted a pensive, pink and orange daubed newborn in Esme (First Painting) just three weeks after giving birth).
