LA “JOIE DE VIVRE”

Trough a lyrical focus on the female figure, Tertia du Toit evokes a sense of joyous sensuality in life itself. Not cluttered with impenetrable symbolism or unsolved obsessions, her works are a classic invitation to take part in a contemporary “joie de vivre”. In a visually oversaturated age she has managed to create a unique and liberated style of pictorial expression. From a more traditional Christian point of view, these fruity goddesses of love and fertility may be irreconcilable with the often sexless and ascetic Christian tradition. The artist finds the reconciliation for these apparent contradictions in the Bible itself, in her works from the Song of Solomon, as well as in a children's drawing of naked Eve swinging in a tree on what seems to be part of the body of a snake.

[Source: Artodyssey]

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