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My Pulchrist Experimentin Verisimilitude
Having lived as an experimental ‘artist-at-large’ for the past two decades, I took it upon myself to try my hand at representative oil painting this year. I moved to Florence, Italy, in December, 2012, because I wanted to see how renaissance painters created Beauty on canvas.
What I found was that far from being hyperrealist in the execution of their paintings, the Old Masters simply attempted to create Beauty in as realistic a way as was possible. Trompe l’oeil was and is a niche technique. The unitiated often fetishise hyperverisimilitude, believing it to possess the greatest intrin-sic artistic value. But my goal is to create Beauty. I’ve even created my own art movement which I call Pulchrism. So I attempted realism in painting this year merely as a potential vehicle for Beauty.
Drawn somewhat unconsciously to silent movie imagery, I began this quest with a still image capture from an old movie, interpreting its general form into my Sacred Hermaphrodite diety 5=6 who descends onto Florence’s Via del Moro.
From there I pursued more realistic body contouring with Suffrage and Beauty Disarming Love, learning about background detailing along the way.
Finding a beautiful head shot of silent movie actress Lilian Gish on the Inter-net, I was inspired to recreate a version of her in oil paint. I fell in love with her at first sight, and therefore had to name her Galatea.
When the summer came to Florence I decided it was time to migrate to my air-conditioned apartment in New York City’s Bowery District. There I paint-ed Cascading Orchids as a still life practice exercise in preparation for Butterfly Goddess - a much larger, more complex work. I soon after completed Unicorn Purifying Water, an accomplished work in my estimation, one inspired by an exhibition of unicorn imagery at the Cloisters in northern Manhattan.
After spending a month in Japan seeking out Shinto shrines and Japanese Art Nouveau, I finally returned to the UK and ventured to recreate hothouse flowers in Pitcher Plants.
Having a strong desire to make large canvases depicting beautiful butterflies, I endeavored to reproduce the extraordinary colour of the Madagascan Sunset Moth in my last painting of the year.
- Jesse Waugh, November 2013
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5=6Oil on canvasFlorence, Italy
This was my first figurative oil painting. It’s entitled 5=6. It depicts a god manifesting or descending upon a Florentine street.
5=6 refers to the initiation title given to full members of the turn-of-the-cen-tury esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn.
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SuffrageOil on canvasFlorence, Italy
Suffrage spills wine from a chalice in her right hand, while being poisoned by her own serpent writhing free from her left.
She levitates suspended above a walkway in Florence’s Cascine Park.
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Beauty Disarming LoveOil on canvasFlorence, Italy
Beauty Disarming Love is based on a classical story of Aphrodite / Venus tricking Cupid / Eros into dropping his weapons. She manifests butterflies or other beautiful distractions as a ruse to draw his attention away from his love-spreading.
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GalateaOil on canvasFlorence, Italy
“The image reminds of me the intents of the pre-Raphaelite… perhaps its emphasis on simplicity and purity.”- Liliana Leopardi, Art Historian, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Galatea gazes lovingly upon Pygmalion as she completes her metamorphosis. A torrential rain cascades down while a Morpho butterfly hovers above an-nouncing the event.
Inspired by Louis Gauffier’s depiction of Galatea at the Manchester Art Gal-lery, and modelled after a famous portrait of the silent movie actress Lillian Gish, Jesse Waugh’s Galatea is the first fully Pulchrist work of painting, em-bodying all of the tenets of Pulchrism, the art movement advocating Beauty in the arts.
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Cascading OrchidsOil on canvasNew York City
Perhaps my most balanced attempt at marrying Beauty with verisimilitude, Cascading Orchids also turned out to be a very pleasant experiment in the creation of atmosphere.
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Butterfly GoddessOil on canvasNew York City
Geisha-inspired Butterfly Goddess stands in the eye of a storm surrounding Glastonbury Tor, next to a tree with ripening persimmons hanging from its otherwise barren branches, whilst reaching out to harbour a butterfly from the gales.
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Unicorn Purifying WaterOil on canvasNew York City
Inspired by an exhibition I went to see entitled “Search for the Unicorn”, which took place at the Cloisters in upper Manhattan, Unicorn Purifying Water is in certain ways a veiled self-portrait depicting me focusing my energy.
There were a number of depictions of unicorns purifying streams at the Cloisters show. I wanted him to purify the ocean.
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Pitcher PlantsOil on canvasGlasgow, Scotland
Pitcher Plants are strange and exotic, despite the fact that they come from the good old United States! This particular species - Sarracenia leucophylla Raf - is native to Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle.
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Sunset MothOil on canvasGlasgow, Scotland
The Madagascan sunset moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus) is an explosion of colour! While I remain loyal to my favorite butterfly Morpho, I can’t help that I am enchanted by the beauty of colour emanating from the wings of the sunset moth.
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