The Model of Tretchikoff Painting the "Green Lady"
The "Green Lady" also known as the "Chinese Girl" was painted in 1952 by the very famous South African/Russian artist Vladimir Tretchikoff. The interesting skin color tone on the "Green Lady" face made the painting very popular in the twentieth century.
The model Monika Sing-Lee, also known as Pon-Su-San, was the model of this very well-known painting. She was around twenty at the time when the painter painted her. She passed away in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 14th June 2017.
Artist: Pieter Lategan. Title: "Green Lady, Kitsch Art"
I am busy working on (developing) this product. I started with a pencil and then began using acrylics and then I will go over to oil eventually. It was the first time that I used so many tools to draw, and it helped to change the artwork.
The message of this painting is my rough thoughts: "Green Lady, Kitsch Art."
"Showing freedom with a vision is less stressful. You can look out of the eye of a child if it means something to you. It is easy to draw like a child; it gives happiness and enough freedom, and works for me... Most fashion drawings are lines to capture the figure in a longer version. I want to let this painting look like a fashion designer's drawing. I see movement on the left-hand side of the face, which is getting abstract and has a line-drawing effect on the painting. The right-hand side is more modern and impressionistic. This painting screams to get away from the old and to fill the need for the new. It can change the title: "New Model - Pon-Su-San"."
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