Fabula 2002 - 2005 : Susan G. Scott's series of oil portrait paintings of children

Fabula 2002 – 2005

Popo-Stick Contest, acrylic and pumice on canvas, 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.), 2005 catalogue # 05d24

Buttercup, oil on canvas, 40.64 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.), 2005

Susan G. Scott, Blue Girl, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 inches

Fabula (meaning “story” or “fable” in Latin) is the title of a body of small watercolors, and larger oil paintings that comment on the very nature of contemporary narratives that are built upon “conditional, ephemeral, and contextually dependent structures” (James Elkins, How the Visual is Studied). Each piece is built from a multiplicity of literary and art historical sources juxtaposed within a single frame. Often, an excerpt from an historical portrait provides the base upon which other images are placed. Layering details from 14th Century frescoes, 18th & 19th Century European architecture, as well as personal images, these works are constructed from memories, fragment upon fragment.

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