BiographyApril 18, 2011

María de Mater O'Neill

María de Mater O¿Neill, better known as Marimater, has excelled as a painter, engraver, Graphics designer and filmmaker. Her paintings have been bright, full of exuberant Caribbean colors. In her work we can notice a Baroque interest for jamming together the surfaces of images, symbols and colors. Many of her works are diptychs or poliptychs with dissimilar images, that compete with each other and at the same time play different aesthetic and theory games. For the Art Circle, O¿Neill created a plain version of her work Enable Blue. Both versions are inspired and pay homage to the French artist Yves Klein [1928-62], author of ¿Klein Blue¿. Klein had a short career but for seven years he challenged most of the art conventionalisms established until then and O¿Neill moves among them. The importance of the process, the inquiry upon authors, the presence or absence of the artist in creation, the energy that color may have, are some of the statements of Klein used by O¿Neill in this work.
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