Embracing the brokeness Francien Krieg Original painting for sale

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Embracing the brokeness

Francien Krieg

2023 • Netherlands • Oil on Linen

35 x 47 in

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Francien Krieg

Netherlands

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Artwork details

Medium : Oil on Linen
Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
Dimensions : 35.4x47.2in

About this artwork

Francien Krieg is a Dutch painter and AI artist who has made a name for herself by painting older naked women. Her artwork is recognized for its unique celebration of the female form, particularly those of older women, and for challenging traditional beauty standards.
Krieg's work often portrays women in their natural state, without the artificial enhancements commonly found in the media. This depiction of older women in their raw and unapologetic… form is not only empowering but also an important step towards breaking the stigma surrounding aging and the female body.

Francien Krieg

Netherlands

Credentials

Prizewinner
Residency Participant
Works on commission

« My work captures the beauty, the power and the vulnerability of the human condition. »

Francien Krieg is a Dutch painter whose work explores the human body as a place where time, vulnerability, strength and uncertainty become visible.

For many years, she was known for her paintings of aging female bodies, questioning conventional ideas of beauty, shame and visibility. In recent years, her focus has widened. She now paints young men, boxers, floating figures, sleeping bodies and adolescents caught between childhood and adulthood.

Krieg is interested in the body not as an ideal form, but as something fragile, strange and honest. Her paintings often show people when the mask begins to slip: a boxer after the fight, a boy floating in water, a figure resting, withdrawing, resisting or giving in.

Her work moves between tenderness and discomfort, beauty and unease. Her painting process has also become more direct and colourful, with a growing use of alla prima painting that brings immediacy, risk and energy into the surface.

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Embracing the brokeness

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