Souvenirs - Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun (ekphrasis series) drawing she calls for a critical

she calls for a critical analysis of how the “grammar” of social media reduces the spectrum of nuanced thinking and performs a political surveillance of ideas

with accompanying scholarly essays offering historical and theoretical background

all the while observing and investigating the creative possibilities and ambitions of the humblest of materials: clay

she often creates monumental

Nifemi Marcus-Bello

Souvenirs - Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun (ekphrasis series) drawing she calls for a criticalA selection from the memoir of lisabeth Louise Vige Le Brun, the renowned eighteenth century French portraitist and one of the most important women painters in art history In her memoir, Vige Le Brun offers a candid and thoroughly enjoyable account of her life and art. She relates her encounters among the royalty and aristocracy she paintedincluding, most famously, her patron Marie Antoinetteand the effusive reception they extended to her across