Desire Me
Watercolour
1969 (made)
1969 (made)
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Allen Jones is one of a group of artists who attended the Royal College of Art in the late 1950s and early 1960s who became associated with Pop art. He has consistently represented the female figure in highly sexualised poses. Often his female figures are dressed, as we see here, in PVC or rubber clothing and wear exaggeratedly high stiletto-heel shoes. Jones was inspired by popular illustration of the 1940s and 1950s, especially those with a sexual content, such as airbrushed pictures of pin-up girls. The woman shown here is represented as an object, an embodiment of conventional male erotic fantasy.
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Title | Desire Me (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Upper part pencil on card, with lower part watercolour, mainly airbrushed, over a photograph mounted on card |
Brief description | Watercolour by Allen Jones entitled 'Desire Me'. Great Britain, 1969. |
Physical description | Full length airbrushed portrait of a partially naked woman wearing tight black leggings or PVC trousers and high stiletto shoes. In a brass frame designed by the artist. |
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Summary | Allen Jones is one of a group of artists who attended the Royal College of Art in the late 1950s and early 1960s who became associated with Pop art. He has consistently represented the female figure in highly sexualised poses. Often his female figures are dressed, as we see here, in PVC or rubber clothing and wear exaggeratedly high stiletto-heel shoes. Jones was inspired by popular illustration of the 1940s and 1950s, especially those with a sexual content, such as airbrushed pictures of pin-up girls. The woman shown here is represented as an object, an embodiment of conventional male erotic fantasy. |
Bibliographic reference | p. 65
Allen Jones. London : Royal Academy of Arts, 2014. ISBN: 9781907533938 |
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Accession number | P.5-1976 |
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Record created | January 21, 2003 |
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