{"id":1721,"date":"2018-05-22T13:04:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T17:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2018-08-04T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T15:59:45","slug":"apples-in-boxes-flowers-in-squares-mary-ahern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/apples-in-boxes-flowers-in-squares-mary-ahern\/","title":{"rendered":"Apples in Boxes &#8211; Flowers in Squares &#8211; New Paintings on an Old Theme by Mary Ahern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades I have been creating art in circles surrounded by squared edges. When I first made this type of work it was in the mid-1970&#8217;s. The circle was most often represented by an apple inside a square or cube. At that time it represented to me the yin and yang, female and male complements to our lives and our characters. The apple was an Eve figure, soft, female, curious, playful and seductive. The boxes were the rules, the male, the limitations, the protection and the containment of her attributes.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 946px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/art-blog-images\/1976circa-Ahern-drawing-apples-in-boxes-DSC07257-13x72.jpg\" alt=\"Apple in Boxes Pointilist drawing by Mary Ahern the Artist\" width=\"936\" height=\"711\"\/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apples in Boxes &#8211; A pointillist drawing in ink on paper. c1970&#8217;s<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have recently returned to this theme but using flowers from my garden as the subjects rather than apples. It feels so calming to me when I create these voluptuous rounded floral paintings. This peony was the first in a series of exploring again the circle in a square imagery so I named it &#8220;Centering&#8221; because that is how I feel towards these works. I find my centering in two places, in my studio and in my garden. They completely complement each other, one provided by nature and one in interpreting that vision.<\/p>\n<p>There is a difference between the imagery of then and now. These flowers, though they are encompassed in a square format canvas, they are not contained. They are bursting through the limitations of frame, of edges, of inhibition. They are positive and empowered by their form and by their explosive color. They are neither shy nor retiring. They declare themselves as having established their own space. They are declaring themselves as individuals.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 946px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/recent-work\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/art-blog-images\/171211-Ahern-Centering-Pink-Peony-13x13x72.jpg\" alt=\"Centering - Pink Peony Squared. Original oil painting by Mary Ahern the artist.\" width=\"936\" height=\"936\"\/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Centering &#8211; Pink Peony&#8221; 36&#215;36&#8243; GW. Oil on Canvas. Original painting by Mary Ahern. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/recent-work\">To purchase or for additional information please contact the artist here.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades I have been creating art in circles surrounded by squared edges. When I first made this type of work it was in the mid-1970&#8217;s. 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