Acrylic, gouache, and watercolour pencil on canvas 48 × 60 in | 2026
Venus of Willendorf by the Sea after Friedrich is part of the Feminine Antiquity series.
In this reimagining of Caspar David Friedrich’s Monk by the Sea, the Venus of Willendorf takes the monk’s place before the vastness of sea and sky. No longer read solely as an ancient symbol of fertility, she stands as a woman and a human being. Within a Western art history in which women have often appeared as objects of contemplation rather than as contemplating subjects, she encounters the sublime, confronting her own smallness and her place within the larger mysteries of existence.
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