BILL MASSEY

STATEMENT

With reverence and respect, I continue to explore the timelessness of the female form in my paintings and drawings. Within the traditional context of figurative art, updated to current times, I am instinctively drawn toward the aesthetics of beauty as profoundly integral to culture, and even to human procreation. This concept is fascinating to me as an elemental fact of nature - that maleness is visually, and instinctually affected by the vision of womanness. I see implications of enormous power of femininity and allure that are a result. Though aesthetics, and beauty are subject to cultural change, and debate, the attraction of beauty is ingrained, and hard wired within us. The Venus of Willendorf would seem oddly denigrated if described as “male gaze”, as would any number of potential narratives of the depiction of beauty throughout the ages; a multitude of which could be considered as spiritual or even magical. I strive to promote this integral power of feminine beauty. 

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