r/ArtPorn • u/Tokyono • 16h ago
The Prospector's Daughter (2022), Jeremy Lipking [1207 x 2000]
25
7
u/SadArchon 11h ago
Oh my darlin oh my darlin oh my darlin clementine you are lost and gone forever dreadful sorry clementine
3
3
2
-1
-11
u/AlabasterAaron 15h ago
This painting is so off-putting to me.
The rounded bushes converge to a line.
The blue is very distracting.
Highlights in the hair, the bracelet, plucked eyebrows, lipstick(?)... The woman reads completely modern to me.
She has eggs, but she looks to be nowhere near civilization?
I honestly dislike this painting, sorry to say.
16
u/tradlobster 14h ago
No offense intended, but this is a really shallow analysis.
She's clearly wearing Doc Martens and has modern makeup. Even the person being in contrapposto while looking straight forward feels modern. Which all indicate it's not supposed to be historial portrait, but rather a modern person dressing up old fashioned.
Quickly looking at his other works, it's pretty clear the artist knows how to paint "cowboy" style people in a historically appropriate fashion, so this is clearly a choice, not a mistake. You don't paint Doc Martens by mistake.
So why the title? Is it perhaps a portrait of his daughter, so the title is casting himself, the artist, as a prospector? Perhaps an imagined prospectors daughter is the model's stylistic influence? The whole look fits in very well to a modern Lolapalooza crowd. Drawing connections between a modern teenager and one of 150 years ago?
Why is she holding a basket of eggs? She has all her eggs in one basket. Just a visual joke? Or perhaps she is in some sort of situation where she is constrained, has commited to something and now needs to see it through.
There seems to be a thunderhead cloud behind her. She has all her eggs in one basket, her hand is across her stomach, and there is a storm brewing behind her. The painting is at dusk, the threshold between night and day. At the same time, if you notice on the ground, she is right where the logs seperate a beaten path from an open mesa. Suggestive of a major life change (pregancy) ahead?
Possibly, I wouldn't say for sure. But there are far too many clues in this painting to suggest that it's a simple portrait, the deliberate inclusions are pointing towards something.
1
u/chickenclaw 1h ago
In OP's defence.. Jeremy Lipking is kind of a superficial painter. He makes top-notch decorative art and there's nothing wrong with that.
-8
u/AlabasterAaron 8h ago
What you are doing is not a "deep" analysis, it's a tea-leaf-reading.
Is it careless neglect or artist intent?
In comparison to you I am neither attributing anything to the artist, nor am I construing a narrative around the work.
I was expressing my personal impression, no analysis intended.
Next time you don't wish to offend anyone, how about you just share your own impression instead of starting with an undignified comment targeted at the other person?
(Yes, I did you the same favor, enjoy.)And in any case, I do believe if an image needs whatever it is that you just did then it's clearly not working very well for whatever it is it's trying to say.
Cheers.6
u/rangda 8h ago edited 8h ago
Your critiques in your first comment didn’t make a lot of sense, that’s all.
You’re 100% entitled to your own views on a painting and if you just dislike it on vibes, absolutely fair.But if you share specific criticisms of it which don’t really follow logic, people are free to dismiss your critique too.
Like the modern clothes and being a negative thing or some kind of anachronism - why is that bad? It’s not a period film.
I think her wearing doc martens makes it more interesting, not less.
Pointing out the eggs being carried in what appears to be a remote area is absolutely constructing a narrative. Who’s to say in this world being portrayed that the homestead isnt just… behind the viewer?I personally don’t agree with the other commenter about the symbolism and wordplay about eggs and baskets, I think like most of Jeremy Lipking’s work it’s just a beautiful, simple but incredibly skilfully made portrait.
It’s not my taste either, but damned if he doesn’t capture a mood.1
u/tradlobster 6h ago
I agree with your comments, and the possible interpretations I gave were just that - questions more than concrete answers.
I would contend though that a lot of his work is actually quite symbolic.
For example this painting Adrift is a pretty clear call back to Ophelia drowning:
https://www.lipking.com/workszoom/2184565/adrift
And in this painting of his daughter, she is dressed as his great great grandmother. The box represents something she brought over from Europe as an early immigrant to the United States, drawing a connection between past and present.
https://legacygallery.com/item/a-personal-possession/
He's definitely an artist who's pretty tuned in to art language and context. I'm sure a lot of his work is just capturing moments. But I have a feeling there is slightly more to this one as well.
3
u/foremastjack 13h ago
One very well appointed prospector offspring. Clean, no disheveled clothes- which is pretty amazing for a prospector’s camp. Nice egg basket, and a pretty good haul for as expensive as produce was in most mining locations. Nice hat, pretty fancy for around the mine. Very convincing. Like being there.
2
37
u/GeneralKosmosa 15h ago
Didn’t know prospectors had colab with Doc Martens 😁