China Shop, Paris

China Shop, Paris

The work is acrylic on canvas. The composition is made up a storefront and the sidewalk in front of it, with the storefront taking up a majority of the composition, and both the store and the sidewalk cut off by the edge of the canvas. A set of double doors is seen at mid-right within the architecture of the storefront, propped open so as to allow a view into the interior of the space. Some of the storefront is also visible to the right of the door. The forms making up the storefront and sidewalk to the right and left of the doors angle sharply back into space in both directions. The storefront is filled from top to bottom with blue shelves of white porcelain. There are even shelves visible above the open doors.. The interior of the store is also filled with blue shelves of white porcelain, some shelves facing the viewer and some angled further back into the space. The floor of the interior space is brown in color, with an overlay of repeated dark slim lines which roughly parallel one another. The lines travel from the front edge of the floor backward into space slightly to the left, leaving the viewer with the sense that the floor is made of hardwood. The pieces of porcelain on display in the windows of the storefront and within the shop are varied in form; they include plates, bowls, pots, pitchers, kettles, and delicate bird and rabbit forms. Like shapes are also massed together, by stacking and/or groupings within each shelf. The perspective of the piece is quite warped; many of the line of go back into space quite sharply and unexpectedly, seen for instance in the exterior sightlines of the shop at left and right, and in the form of the right interior shelf, which almost seems to tip forward slightly as if seen slightly from above. The work is dominated by repetition-not only do we see the repeated shapes of pottery but the colors blue and white take up the majority of the colors used. The brushwork is rather rough in some areas of the composition, allowing, for instance, some of the porcelain pieces to feel somewhat indefinite in form, especially those which are further from the viewer.

Virginia Randolph Buiede is an artist known for her paintings, prints, and drawings. She was born in 1938 in Minneapolis, and graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from Barat College in 1960. She has had many one-woman exhibitions of her work, and in the 70s and 80s had studios in both New York and Los Angeles. She continues to include work in many invitational and group shows.

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St. Catherines University Library and Archives

2009

St. Catherine University

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30 x 30 in

English

Panting, Acrylic

2017.5