Christina MajorElvis Oil on Canvas by Christina Major 66 x 882024
2024
About the Item
- Creator:Christina Major (1982, American)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 88 in (223.52 cm)Width: 66 in (167.64 cm)Depth: 1.75 in (4.45 cm)
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- Gallery Location:West Palm Beach, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU56214034352
Christina Major
The work of American painter Christina Major sees a convergence of styles that she has made uniquely her own. Collectors will find traces of Pop art, Photorealism and Expressionism in the wide range of distinctive portraits she has created over the years.
A closer inspection of each large-scale canvas, which is prepared with gesso and stretched, will also reveal the integration of text — Major layers hand-painted words and phrases in cursive over each of her painted subjects’ faces, which draws on her background in graphic design and affords the artist the chance to share her own memories and opinions or general thoughts on the subject of a given work.
Major, a native of Concord, New Hampshire, centers her paintings on cultural icons. She has painted the visages of American musician Prince, actresses Lauren Bacall and Audrey Hepburn, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, as well as Pop art staples such as James Dean and Marilyn Monroe.
After living in several places around the world, Major is now based in Florida and earned her MFA at Florida Atlantic University, and has exhibited throughout South Florida. Her work is held in private collections in the United States and elsewhere.
On 1stDibs find authentic Christina Major portraits, abstract paintings and figurative paintings.
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- Oil on Canvas of Sophia Loren’s Eye IIBy Christina MajorLocated in West Palm Beach, FLAs an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait. Major also has a desire to combine portrait painting...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
MaterialsOil
- Oil on Canvas of Jackie O with Gold LeafBy Christina MajorLocated in West Palm Beach, FLWords: Now I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together so now he is a legend when he would have preffered to be a man. the Children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen out world through their eyes they restore my faith in the familys future One must not let oneself b overwhelmed by sadness can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly to be living alone as the presidents widow? Christina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982. She has lived all over the world including Hawaii, France, New York and more currently Florida. Christina has achieved her MFA at Florida Atlantic University and has exhibited throughout South Florida. Her work has been collected both nationally and internationally. Christina Major is a portrait painter interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a painting. Major's graduate thesis exhibition, Components of self, evolved from her desire to combine large scale portrait painting with writing. She developed methods of using paint...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
MaterialsGold Leaf
- Raquel Welch Oil on Canvas by Christina MajorBy Christina MajorLocated in West Palm Beach, FLQuotes within painting: "I'm optimistic about whatever is going to happen. We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that m...Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
MaterialsOil
- Oil on Canvas of Billie Holiday IIBy Christina MajorLocated in West Palm Beach, FLChristina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982. She has lived all over the world including Hawaii, France, New York and more currently Florida. Christina has achieved h...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
MaterialsOil
- Oil on Canvas of Brigitte BardotBy Christina MajorLocated in West Palm Beach, FLQuotes within painting: "A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. Do you have to have a reason for loving? It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. I leave before being left. I decide. I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I'm a human being. I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life I never do anything by chance. People are forever finding something wrong with you. I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy. Success is unpredictable and fragile." As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait. Major also has a desire to combine portrait painting with writing (inspired from her Graphic Design studies) as well as to develop methods of using paint to express a merging of herself with the individual depicted in the portrait. Her creative research focuses on the traditional form of the portrait as a powerful form of representing an individual and how meaning can be expanded through scale, brushstroke, color, texture, composition and the many variables that portraiture deals with. Major looks to expand on the traditional portrait painting...Category
2010s Realist Abstract Paintings
MaterialsOil
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