Jeffrey Catherine Jones, One of my favorite all time artists

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I've always loved her art. I grew up with her work. What I noticed is that in her paintings for commission, the men are all not as focused or delineated as the women. I have always wondered if this was something subconscious by being transgendered in a time when it was unacceptable. A peek into the unformed male identity vs the well delineated female identity.

Of I could be wrong...but what an amazing talent.

Here is an excellent summary of her career.
http://www.tcj.com/jeffrey-catherine-jo ... ed-deeply/

And a search page of her paintings:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cat ... ORM=HDRSC2

Unrelated:

Do you believe the Mannerists deliberately satirized Renaissance Art?

Of that, I am unfamiliar. Sorry.....

But, now I gotta go look that up!! LOL

I was told that the Mannerists satirized the Renaissance artists' motif (e.g., Madonna and Child) in subtle ways.

If they openly satirized these motifs, they might be subject to prosecution. People were sensitive about their religion in the 16th century.

Religious leaders held complete sway on artistic representations when commissioned. They were not happy at all with Da Vinci's "Last Supper" because he broke a lot of rules governing the depiction of Christ and divinity in general. So, it would not surprise me that an artist would poke at things slyly while having to deal with repression like that.

I think the Mannerists were also known for having a bluish (color) orientation in their art.

I believe they poked fun at the excesses of the mainline Renaissance artists....by being a little excessive.

I've done a cursory reading of it and here are just a couple of conclusions that I come to of the top of my head.

1.) It seems more a rebellion than a satirization.

2.) Different shift in composition from ideal and balanced to one of tension

3.) Beginning of abstraction as the figures were not idealized, but stylized

4.) Breaking and rejecting hundreds of years of 'learned draftsmanship' such as perspective in the images

I will have to mull it a bit as I am not familiar with many of the artists they reference and others, I can't remember who came first to last. So I have to actually digest it a bit more.

More than likely, I will come back and refute myself later LOL