Mata Hari Canvas Print

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"Mata Hari"

An early 20th century photographic portrait of Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, better known as Mata Hari, the Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan executed by France for accusations of spying for Germany during World War I, painted in digital oil on canvas in a surrealist floral style. I used a color palette of pale yellow, maroon, beige, green and dusty purple to bring the mysterious, infamously exotic femme fatale to life. Please visit my Portraiture art gallery to see more of my portrait artwork.

Awards:
6.11.18 Surreal Portrait of a Person: 3rd Place (tie)
12.7.17 She is a Lady, She is a Myth Contest: 3rd Place (tie)
11.3.17 War Art Contest: 3rd Place (tie)
10.12.17 Death and the Maiden Contest: 2nd Place (tie)
11.24.16 My Favorite Persoanlity Contest: 2nd Place
10.10.16 Narcissist of the Third Millennium Contest: 3rd Place (tie)
9.30.16 To Be a Woman Contest: 3rd Place (tie)
8.5.16 Not Just a Portrait Contest: 3rd Place

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My mind lives in a rather strange world of its own, in a state which I tend to refer to as "delightfully twisted." Through my art, which I am vehemently determined to continue to create with as little outside influence as possible, I work tirelessly to interpret the concepts my mind creates in a moment-by-moment barrage of ideas that always seem to come faster than I can realize them in a tangible form. Though my artwork over the past 40 years has evolved from my early days of shooting on film to manifesting itself in many different forms of more contemporary media, from the delicate transparency of digital watercolor, to the no-holds-barred starkness of noir digital photography, to even the fanciful abstract-turned-conceptual properties...