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Painting Wishing well by Bonetti | Painting Abstract Acrylic
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This unique and original contemporary artwork “Wishing well” has been created by the contemporary artist Bonetti.
The artist used Acrylic medium on Other to create this Abstract, Small size painting.
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Style : Abstract
Medium : Acrylic
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Bonetti Bulgaria
Bonetti was born in Bulgaria to a mother who was an art teacher mother. He grew up surrounded by art books and spent several hours a day in the family library. During the summer, his parents took him around Europe and had him visit the major museums of the world (the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Prado in Madrid and the British Museum in London). As an adult, he followed in the family footsteps and earned an art degree. He moved to Canada and Europe and continued to study for several years. From his youth, Bonetti retained a taste for travel and discovery. He finds each place, each landscape interesting. Confrontation with other cultures and the idea of rethinking his own values is an inexhaustible source of wealth in his eyes.
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Rethinking Rococo Art
In Vignette (Wishing Well), Kerry James Marshall invites us to rethink Rococo art. This artistic movement dating back to the early 18th century is known for its romanticism and frivolity. Rococo paintings often stage young lovers with pale skin and frilly dresses, seducing each other in bountiful gardens. The young girls are always taking part in some activity and surrounded by flowers. Often, they are observed by young men who, like voyeurs, admire from afar, turning them into objects of desire. In other words, the young girls in Rococo paintings are mostly here for a decorative purpose, like the greenery surrounding the scene.
Through Wishing Well, Kerry James Marshall confronts us with all these essential elements of Rococo. In a disinterested way, a young Black woman throws coins in a wishing well. The scene is surrounded, in a way that could not be less subtle, by pastel hearts and greenery. Hidden in the shadow of a tree, on the right side of the painting, one can catch a glimpse of a man; he seems to be playing the role of the voyeur. In this scene, Kerry James Marshall thus reuses the key elements of the Rococo movement. However, they are presented to us in an obvious, almost ironic way.
Normalizing Black presence in art
This way of reusing, almost mockingly, famous artistic norms is a strategy used by many artists. In particular, those that belong to minority groups use this method in order to challenge us. They invite us to rethink the way in which art history evolved; that is, in such a way as to highlight only white men and women. In 2019, a study showed that, out of the 18 biggest museums in America, 85% of artists exhibited were white and 87% were men. Additionally, African American artists were the least present. They only represented 1.2% of works, despite constituting a quarter of the population in the United States. A few years later, it is unlikely that a drastic change has occurred.
African American artists like Kerry James Marshall are thus often keen to normalize their presence in museums, but also to normalize Black figures in their works. Here, Kerry James Marshall chose Rococo art, a famously cheerful movement, known for its bright colors and its imaginary or utopic atmospheres. In the Rococo reappropriated by the artist, one does not really find this utopic aspect, apart from the pink hearts floating around. The figures in Wishing Well perfectly blend in with the darker surroundings chosen by the artist. We, therefore, find the same themes which clearly indicate the artistic movement chosen by Kerry James Marshall. However, these are slightly modified, in order to harmoniously include its two protagonists and get some distance from traditional western Rococo.
Vignettes: A series between political messaging and romantic light-heartedness
Wishing Well is one of the many works in the Vignettes series. Through it, the artist explicitly gets inspiration from scenes from Rococo, staging Black characters. In an interview for Art21, Kerry James Marshall explains where the inspiration for this series came from: “The work of African American artists has for a long time been seen more as a kind of social phenomena instead of aesthetic phenomena.” In other words, the works of African American artists are often, by default, understood or interpreted as being socially or politically motivated.
Although it is an important aspect for many artists, Kerry James Marshall attempts with his Vignettes to go beyond these interpretations. He thus places his figures in an apolitical and frivolous context. Indeed, the Rococo movement is known to be completely devoid of any political or intellectual message. The only thing that matters is the beauty of the romantic and joyful atmosphere.
His other vignettes always stage Black couples, but some of them include references to the history of political movements in the background. Vignette (Wishing Well) by Kerry James Marshall thus constitutes an in-between; the work is politicized by its inclusion of a Black couple in a historical 18th-century movement. But at the same time, it preserves its sentimentality and lightness. The artist uses the typical excess of Rococo while adding some nuance with black, grey, and white tones.
