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Mary Weatherford: The Flaying of Marsyas

By (author) Francine Prose

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This catalog documents an exhibition of paintings from 2021 22 by Mary Weatherford, a daring practitioner of American abstraction and a leading painter of her generation. The series takes its immediate inspiration from Titian s late painting, The Flaying of Marsyas (c. 1570 76), reflecting the artist s enduring fascination with this work. Alluding to the Renaissance painter s subdued palette, while paying tribute to the distinctive light of Venice, Weatherford uses Flashe paint and neon tubing to distill the earlier canvas s affect. She responds to Titian s composition by translating the violent character of its mythological theme into a format that, while more improvisational, also alludes to fate, hubris, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Francine Prose s essay traces the history of depictions of the myth of Apollo and Marsyas in paintings, and places Weatherford s interpretation of the story in the context of contemporary life.

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Publisher | Rizzoli International Publications
Published date | 19 Nov 2024
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 84
Dimensions | 311 x 267 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-0-7893-4554-7
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