A Transformation of Butler's Girl
by Nina Silver
Title
A Transformation of Butler's Girl
Artist
Nina Silver
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Photograph With Creative Digital Enhancements
Description
Sculptor, Reginald Butler's 'Girl (1954)', on display in the Art Gallery of Ontario, has been digitally painted to create an artwork that now speaks to transformation and renewal. As the female form with her wide hips reaches for the sky, raindrops fall around her and the new distinct features of her anatomy give us messages of both the strength and vulnerability of her traditional female and male characteristics.
Reginald Cotterell Butler was an English sculptor. He was born at Bridgefoot House, Buntingford, Hertfordshire to Frederick William Butler and Edith, daughter of blacksmith William Barltrop, of The Forge, Takeley, Essex. Butler produced increasingly distorted and overtly sexualized female figures in painted bronze, distancing himself from his more abstract modernist contemporaries.
Born April 28, 1913; Died October 23, 1981
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April 23rd, 2022
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