Sheer Deco Nude 14-10-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper, 2022

Corné Akkers  

Love for Sheer Textures This graphite pencil drawing Sheer Deco Nude 14-10-22 is a deepening of my love for texture of fabrics. My Last drawing of Louise Brooks also bears witness to that and the one before that as well. Surely my satin fetishes already showed but now it was time to experiment with sheer fabrics on the female form. Some time ago I saw Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet. In a particular scene at Mr Darcy's house she is gazing at a statue with a veiled face. I found that simply fascinating. Very classic, a bit corny perhaps but I don't mind. I already explained I am not living in the era I should have been. I certainly will not burn my art works either like Damien Hirst, that's for sure. Instead I gladly refer to art works of eras gone by. Deco or Not? Unfortunately I don't know the origin of the reference picture so I cannot give someone credits. It must have been in the 1920s since I was searching for art deco photography. Not at all certain deco I must confess but my added cubist styling could be though. In my art statement to Art Deco Nude 02-10-22, I give the generally accepted definition of the style. I state it once more: Geometric styling of naturalistic forms with a degree of abstraction and streamlining. As a natural consequence, it flows from bringing them back to the essence geometrically.