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Miss Van synthisized
Miss Van’s work has grown with her as she has matured as an artist. Her work has evolved. The subject of her work is always women and femininity. The sexuality in her pieces is always different. The women are usually posing, but in some of her later series the women seem as if they are not trying to be overly sexual, but naturally or instinctively ooze some sexuality. The later series show a lot of sorrow and struggle. The compositions become dark and contain more of a story. Each woman has a story and the later the piece was made the more tragic her story seems. All of Miss Van’s paintings I would consider nude. The women are aware of their sexuality and flaunting it or merely presenting it. Miss vans symbolism stays constant throughout her work as well, posing, gaze, hair, costume and propping play a major role in understanding miss vans work. Miss Vans art is meant to be viewed and appreciated by both sexes. When Miss van was asked how men and women react differently to her art she responded by saying ” Men are naturally attracted and women identify themselves.”
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![“[Painting on the street] was a nice way to express myself spontaneously and I always had some nice experiences with people and stories to tell. Painting in my studio is all about experimenting with different techniques and taking time to do things without the rush of the street and with no one looking at me. Working in my studio allows me to evolve a lot more and to do my painting properly, without the pressure of the street. The street was really fun. I’ve spent a lot of years painting outside, that was really good, and it was a good exercise to paint quickly but then I had to change and to do something else. It’s part of me, I’m a painter, whether I’m painting on the street or in my studio, it’s just the same. I’m the same person. I miss [the spontaneity] but I’ve learned some other things too – maturity and more control, consciousness, many things that I didn’t have before.“
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“[Painting on the street] was a nice way to express myself spontaneously and I always had some nice experiences with people and stories to tell. Painting in my studio is all about experimenting with different techniques and taking time to do things without the rush of the street and with no one looking at me. Working in my studio allows me to evolve a lot more and to do my painting properly, without the pressure of the street. The street was really fun. I’ve spent a lot of years painting outside, that was really good, and it was a good exercise to paint quickly but then I had to change and to do something else. It’s part of me, I’m a painter, whether I’m painting on the street or in my studio, it’s just the same. I’m the same person. I miss [the spontaneity] but I’ve learned some other things too – maturity and more control, consciousness, many things that I didn’t have before.“
http://www.juxtapoz.com/Gallery/levine-mars1-missvan-gaia/levine-mars1-missvan-gaia110-844
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Hypnotic Flower
2011
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[Flash 10 is required to watch video]Hypnotic Flower
2011
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This is the first book by Miss Van, which covers her works from Stole Heart (2008) to Twinkles (2010). “By painting a world of tears and masks - as Magda Danysz wrote in the book’s introduction - Miss Van has always centered her painting on the feminine, autobiographical, figure. Miss Van’s art carries a lot of symbols in form of flowers and animals. In her Twinkles series Miss Van has used a lot of flowers, from green soothing large plants to intense red, almost sexual, exotic flowers. Miss Van’s visual form, recognizable in the fact that it is insisting on color, vitality and beauty, shows that life is always worth living - no matter how painful it can be. The bright colors of this multicolored world reflect the joy of it all”.
Miss Van has gone from painting the curvy, enticing pin-ups in the street of Toulouse, to painting the melancholic and subtle works of this new exhibition. Her various travels and encounters have enriched her already complex world. Thanks to her past year exhibitions in Barcelona, Los Angeles, san Diego, Mexico, London or Paris, she has found many new sources of inspiration. Not only has she been influenced by the contemporary artists with whom she has shared many privileged moments, she has also orrowed the techniques and subtle lighting effects of great artists of the past, focusing her work more on the quality of her painting and less on self-asserting herself as is the common in street art. With this new series she has undergone a beautiful evolution towards a more mature and refined style of painting, but without ever losing touch with her street art origins. Miss Van once again exhibits a melancholic collection of painings. As always women are the centre of attention. By adding a generous dose of coquetry and mischief to the ingredients of her work, she manages to bring out all the glamour, sensuality and sparkle of the female character she has created.
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Twinkles
Shanghai-2010
SABRINA: Gluttony. She’s voluptuous, she has wrinkles in her belly, she looks like the 16th century ideal woman. I can imagine this royal woman undressing after a masked ball and presenting herself to a man in a darkened room. She is mysterious. Her mask covering her eyes creating a hidden intimacy. The layer of the mask adds seduction. I am not looking upon this woman, but she seducing me, luring me in. Her posture flaunts her body shape.
Her unclothed body is just like the pig. The composition of the color of the piece makes me follow the pink tones, from the woman’s lips and cheeks, down to her nipple, to the pigs hooves and nose and then following down the pig’s back to the flower. A circle of femininity.
![Twinkles
Shanghai-2010
SABRINA: Comparing this work of Miss Van’s to any of her work before 2006 you can see a significant change in the subject of the work. Her work has transformed from cutesy street ‘poupees’ to charming seductive ‘femme fatales’.
“I think you can really see the evolution [in my work] when you look back to years ago, but I’m evolving at the same time as my painting. My artistic life is very close to my personal life and I’m not thinking so much about how to evolve, I’m just doing it, and the paintings are changing the way I’m changing too, it’s a normal evolution. I grew up and the paintings look more mature, as do I”. -Miss Van](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvtdekIgdW1r7dvd2o1_500.png)
Twinkles
Shanghai-2010
SABRINA: Comparing this work of Miss Van’s to any of her work before 2006 you can see a significant change in the subject of the work. Her work has transformed from cutesy street ‘poupees’ to charming seductive ‘femme fatales’.
“I think you can really see the evolution [in my work] when you look back to years ago, but I’m evolving at the same time as my painting. My artistic life is very close to my personal life and I’m not thinking so much about how to evolve, I’m just doing it, and the paintings are changing the way I’m changing too, it’s a normal evolution. I grew up and the paintings look more mature, as do I”. -Miss Van
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