01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Josh Honeyman’s Victorine Meurent and her crayons, with footnotes # 152
Victorine Meurent and her crayons
Oil on Canvas.
39.4 W x 59.1 H x 0.2 in
Private collection
Victorine-Louise Meurent (February 18, 1844 — March 17, 1927) was a French painter and a famous model for painters. Although she is best known as the favourite model of Édouard Manet, she was also an artist in her own right who regularly exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon. In 1876 her paintings were selected for inclusion at the Salon’s juried exhibition, when Manet’s work was not.
Meurent’s name remains forever associated with Manet’s masterpieces of 1863, The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia, which include nude portrayals of her. More on Victorine Meurent
Josh Honeyman lives near Blackheath close to the highest point of the Blue Mountains. He takes us there, into visionary landscapes, reimagining the world through a host of signs, symbols and haunting scenarios. Arcane narratives are suggested, ones steeped in myth, portents and divinations. There’s love, death, poetry, mystery, wizardry, far beyond anything the camera can offer. The fact that Honeyman is a highly skilled painter allows him to convince us of the validity of these alternative realms. Let’s go there, not all the time, but long enough to recognise that the human spirit is more than just a receptacle for the banal pragmatism and dull conventions of Western rationalism. Robert Hollingworth, 2019
Josh studied at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney. He has exhibited in a range of solo and group shows across Australia and in Los Angeles, USA in 2006.
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