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A naked woman, depicted in blue but with red lips has her head thrown back in rapture. This is the third of my "Etudes", which are intended as intimate studies of human emotions and situations. The series of these blue paintings will run to 24 paintings in total and these will form a major part of my career portfolio and work. I hope the viewer may be as moved by this painting as I have been by its execution - and as the lady in the painting is!
Rapture - Etude in Blue, No. 3 was created by artist Mark John Maguire in 2018. This art piece is a Paintings artwork. The style of this artwork is best described as Fine Art, Impressionism, Modernism. The genre portrayed in this piece of art is Figurative, Nudes. The artwork was created in Canvas, Oil, Painting. The size of the original art is 18 (inches) H x 14 (inches) W.
Words which artist Mark John Maguire feels best describe this work of art are: Rapture, blue nude, blue painting, etude no.3, Mark John Maguire, nude beautiful woman, ecstacy in blue, art in Wales, modern welsh art, .
About Mark Maguire
I was born in Liverpool and was educated at the University of Manchester, Swansea University and the Polytechnic of Wales where I studied History, Philosophy and Intellectual and Art History (MA). I have lived and worked in Ireland, Germany, Holland and the UK as a barman, labourer, soldier, Aircraft sealer, Trade Marks Examiner, Ministerial Policy Adviser in Trade & Industry (London), Head of International Relations at the Welsh Office and Principal Private Secretary to the Presiding Officer at the National Assembly for Wales.
I left the Civil Service in 2005 and dedicated myself to art and writing. My large, vibrant and luminous paintings are metaphysical in approach and, as with my writing, personal and intense. They frequently convey contemporary urban realism in a ruined, isolated or detached landscape. The figures in them are always captive watchers of their environment or circumstances, trapped by their inability to communicate. I call these works "narrative" because what is important in the paintings is what happens before or after the moment depicted - the viewer must move beyond the canvas to ascertain this. My smaller paintings are "etudes", conceived as intimate studies of the mood and condition of individuals. They are almost always painted in blue.