"Unique in approach, you easily recognise an Azzopardi picture. Â America has Lichtenstein we have Azzopardi. Â Working simple graphics and toned shading (for depth), the Pop Art line that Azzopardi sketches is different to Lichtensteinâs. Â Hers is more curvaceous. Â Feminine. Â Whereas his lines are male, brash and clunky. Â And her humour is distinctively British. Â With the slap-and-tickle, kiss-me-quick, fun of Carry On films and quintessentially English seaside-pier-art where you poke your head through the cut-out cartoon, putting yourself in the picture. âFlash, bang, wallop! What a picture! Â What a photograph!â (Tommy Steele as Arthur Kipps in the London musical, âHalf a Sixpenceâ). Weâve all been there done that, to be a part of visual curvaceous comedy as breasts spill over necklines, buttocks plump under panties and Y-Fronts jockey as floppy sun hats, on the English seaside coast."Â @EstelleLovatt FRSA
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"How does Azzopardi choose her topics? âI donât choose them,â she says. âReally they choose me. I am inspired by everything I see and hear.â Thereâs plenty of art historical references from Daliâs frivolous daydreaming joy to Michelangeloâs abandonment of sexual fantasy; with Brancussiâs physical, bodily, dynamics through to Manetâs suggestive âOlympiaâ; Boucherâs thought-provoking, and groin-stimulating, âLouise OâMurphyâ; Fragonardâs frivolous, knickerless, âThe Swingâ; and Courbetâs glowing âThe Origin of the Worldâ. But, coming from the male artist, youâd notice art history tends to sexualise art for the male patron because itâs been created by a man. Â Azzopardi does it her way, not in a vulgar way, through a Graphic-Figurativism that liberates women a step further than Gauguin liberated the girl with Primivitism. Â Further, Azzopardi is seductive with a non-threatening touch â it is fantasy, in a non-threatening way, like being comfortable with your G.B.F. (Gay Best Friend) discussing your bra size."Â @EstelleLovatt FRSA
Visit Stand 5, @londonartfair courtesy of @cynthiacorbettgallery for the last day of @londonartfair Sunday 20 January | 11am â 5pm .
