Fist I
About this artwork
‘Fist I’ is part of a series of large paintings Hardie produced based on her own body, applying the paint with a sponge in order to achieve bold surface and colour effects. She produced these shortly after studying with the German artist Georg Baselitz who had a profound effect on her work. Describing the works in this series as “inching the way forward”, Hardie continues to produce large scale, close-up paintings of the face and body today. In them she “want[s] to create the sense of being so close-up to the subject, that the subject becomes both immediate as a real presence and at the same time mysterious and elusive”.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Gwen Hardie (born 1962) Scottish
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title:Fist I
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date created:Dated 1986
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:158.00 x 220.50 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased with funds given Mr Dennis White in memory of his daughter Catriona White, 1987
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accession number:GMA 3038
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Gwen Hardie
Gwen Hardie
Gwen Hardie was born in Fife and studied at Edinburgh College of Art. She left Scotland in 1984 after winning a scholarship to study in West Berlin, where for a time she was taught by the German painter Georg Baselitz. He encouraged her to change from a studied, precise depiction of the human...