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(1050)Yasemin Senel - Ishtar (Ornaments from the royal graves at Ur)
1350
About this artwork
The starting point for the creation of this work is the set of jewellery and ornaments found in a temple dedicated to the goddess Ishtar, one of the most important deities in Mesopotamia. She was the mother-goddess and symbolized fertility and fecundity. I felt very much in tune with this subject since mythology, goddess figures and fertility symbols are always very present in my work. Being born in Turkey but having studied arts in Belgium, my work is deeply inspired by cultural heritage of Middle East and Western Europe, how it meets and mixes, how it enriches each other. I have always felt deeply connected to ancient Sumerian and Babylonian civilizations, in their legends and art forms. I was therefore very excited when I received the plate about Ur and the Chaldees, and couldn’t wait to start working on this fantastic topic. This work is the first of a series I will work on in the coming weeks.
About Yasemin
Yasemin Senel was born in Turkey in 1953 and she lives and works now in Brussels, Belgium. She creates strong figurative artwork, personal and oneiric, sensitive and fierce at the same time. Her work offers fanciful childbirth linking humans to their animal alter egos, reinventing powerful founding myths. Yasemin Senel shakes up the iconography of myths to make them give up the soul in the jubilation of the gesture of painting. Between votive reminiscences and shamanistic rites, her playful trance disrupts gender conventions and plunders the figurative resources of a subject-pretext. The colour from which she extracts rare harmonies is always at the forefront of her preoccupations, exalted by colliding arrangements of planes with multiple reading spaces. Depending on the flashes of both cerebral and emotional grasping, scale discrepancies are frequent, as is the alternation of pictorial references that oscillate between esotericism and celebrations of fertility. Finally, the linear line brings the paradoxical counterpoint, unifying and finalizing the composition in a definitively moving register.
She graduated from the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts of Liège (Belgium) in 1978 and shows her works since 1977 (notably in FIAC Paris, Chicago, Paris and Luxembourg more recently). She makes paintings on canvas or paper, and drawings.
Link to Yasemin’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Yasemin was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 9
The story of the early civilisation in the worlds history.
In Ancient UR of the Chaldees
The starting point for the creation of this work is the set of jewellery and ornaments found in a temple dedicated to the goddess Ishtar, one of the most important deities in Mesopotamia. She was the mother-goddess and symbolized fertility and fecundity. I felt very much in tune with this subject since mythology, goddess figures and fertility symbols are always very present in my work. Being born in Turkey but having studied arts in Belgium, my work is deeply inspired by cultural heritage of Middle East and Western Europe, how it meets and mixes, how it enriches each other. I have always felt deeply connected to ancient Sumerian and Babylonian civilizations, in their legends and art forms. I was therefore very excited when I received the plate about Ur and the Chaldees, and couldn’t wait to start working on this fantastic topic. This work is the first of a series I will work on in the coming weeks.
About Yasemin
Yasemin Senel was born in Turkey in 1953 and she lives and works now in Brussels, Belgium. She creates strong figurative artwork, personal and oneiric, sensitive and fierce at the same time. Her work offers fanciful childbirth linking humans to their animal alter egos, reinventing powerful founding myths. Yasemin Senel shakes up the iconography of myths to make them give up the soul in the jubilation of the gesture of painting. Between votive reminiscences and shamanistic rites, her playful trance disrupts gender conventions and plunders the figurative resources of a subject-pretext. The colour from which she extracts rare harmonies is always at the forefront of her preoccupations, exalted by colliding arrangements of planes with multiple reading spaces. Depending on the flashes of both cerebral and emotional grasping, scale discrepancies are frequent, as is the alternation of pictorial references that oscillate between esotericism and celebrations of fertility. Finally, the linear line brings the paradoxical counterpoint, unifying and finalizing the composition in a definitively moving register.
She graduated from the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts of Liège (Belgium) in 1978 and shows her works since 1977 (notably in FIAC Paris, Chicago, Paris and Luxembourg more recently). She makes paintings on canvas or paper, and drawings.
Link to Yasemin’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Yasemin was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 9
The story of the early civilisation in the worlds history.
In Ancient UR of the Chaldees
Artist:
Yasemin SenelMedium:
Acrylic, charcoal, acrylic marker and pencil on paperDimensions:
A4Price:
1350 EUR