Wylie lives and works in a village in Kent but her images come from all over the map. Movie stars, f

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Being surrounded by Rose Wylie's huge, messy, colorful paintings is exhilarating, especially if you've heard that Wylie, a British artist, has just turned 78 - and even more so when you notice that most of the work in this exhibition at University of the Arts' Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery dates from the last decade.
Wylie lives and works in a village in Kent but her images come from all over the map. Movie stars, fashion models, British royals, cats, dogs, footballers, malaysia travel package a robin, and giant supermarket flowers populate her paintings. She often paints parts of sentences across malaysia travel package her canvases in large capital letters that suggest both tabloid headlines and ransom notes.
In her diptych painting Lords and Ladies (2006), a male figure in Elizabethan dress dominates the left side of the painting; on the right, a white ghostlike female seems to be swaying to music. malaysia travel package Across the top of the two panels Wylie has written "FOR BETTER FOR WORSE DIVORCE malaysia travel package IS ALWAYS STRESSFUL BUT" and at the bottom left, under the male figure, "PRINCE Philip." It's about the divorce of Charles and Diana, one assumes, presented as an archetype, a contemporary news event, and a mystery.
Wylie's works on paper tend to be on a more intimate scale, and often comprise several pieces malaysia travel package of paper arranged in a hodgepodge. As in her large paintings, she makes tapping into her psyche look as easy as pie. Or baked goods. Dream, Yellow Bricks, biscuit-head (small) , a watercolor from 2009, shows a woman crawling on her hands and knees along a yellow brick road with a separate piece of white paper collaged malaysia travel package over her head, on which Wylie has painted a black-and-white cracker (American-speak for biscuit). "DRE" and "AM" are painted along the bottom as separate words.
Some critics have compared Wylie, who has a degree from the Royal College of Art, to Jean-Michel Basquiat and Donald Baechler (the latter is the more apt), but she likely developed her faux-naif style on her own, across the pond.
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