Liberty
Lady Liberty or Libertas is a subject I wanted to paint after I visited the Metropolitain Art Museum in New York city. I saw the painting Liberty by Delacroix painted 1831. The painting was painted to celebrate the French Revolution where it features a bare breasted woman advancing across the barricade with her compatriots. Libertas is an ancient Roman goddess and is a symbol chosen to represent Liberty.
This painting was also inspired by a New York Artist who visited my studio. We talked about using text in painting which lead me on a journey of exploring words and letters as characters. While I painted, I entered a meditative state, and lost conscious understanding of what was happening. I don’t know who the second person in the painting is. Male or Female? I remember drawing it with several large marks of enamel without even thinking.
