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Kaoru MansourIro (hana) #4952011
2011
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A painting by Kaoru Mansour. "Iro (hana) #495" is a contemporary mixed media piece, acrylic, paper, 22K gold leaf, pen, and glitter on canvas by Japanese, female artist Kaoru Mansour. The artwork is signed on the verso, “KAORU MANSOUR, ‘11, “Iro (Hana) #495,” 30” x 40”".
Kaoru Mansour, a native of Japan, is an artist based in Los Angeles. Her artwork has varied over the last ten years, ranging from geometric abstract paintings on paper to her more recent botanical collage elements on wooden panels. Delicately colored organic forms are covered with twenty to thirty different layers of encaustic, which gives her work a rich and highly textured appearance.
Mansour grew up in a small mountainous village. She has vivid, early childhood memories of playing with, studying and even eating the tremendous varieties of seasonal plants in the lush forests of Japan. As she began her formal training as an
artist at Otis Parsons Art Institute in Los Angeles, the impact of her previous natural surroundings emerged. While her work has evolved over the years, botanical imagery, whether actual or abstracted, has always figured in her work.
Mansour’s current body of work connects images of plants with abstract mark making. The artist goes into her physical surroundings to gather plants and flowers - whatever she finds of interest during a particular season. She then transfers images of single specimens onto panels - whether it is a leaf, the whole plant or just a portion of a flower - the image is always simple and solitary. A muted, butter-like background holds the image which is glazed over to form a cracked, raku-like surface - a small gesture to her Japanese heritage. Mansour then draws colored circles and other small ink markings on the panels, enhancing the fundamental beauty of a single branch or stem. These simple, focused pieces elegantly integrate graphic and organic expressions. While the viewer may recognize a particular type of plant or flower, the image is always simplified - a flower stripped of leaves, a stem without its main branch or a sturdy stalk detached from the ground. Her compositions crop those “extraneous” elements from the picture plane to emphasize the abstract beauty and remarkable form of her chosen specimen. Her delicate markings swirl around and attach to the delicate branches, creating new, otherworldly plant forms that are at once astute with their precision and wonderfully whimsical.
- Creator:Kaoru Mansour (Japanese)
- Creation Year:2011
- Dimensions:Height: 40 in (101.6 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Palm Desert, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: 386841stDibs: LU938877672
Kaoru Mansour
Kaoru Mansour is Japanese-born. She moved to California in 1986 and studied at the Otis Art Institute in 1987. Her exquisite nature paintings integrate traditional Japanese themes with contemporary western genre, striking a balance between tension, weight, and whimsy. In her own words… “For me, my work demonstrates respect, appreciation, compassion, and humbleness. These are very important reminders in my life, and I have all these feelings toward nature.” Kaoru lives and works in Los Angeles.
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