{"product_id":"deelee-golden-girl","title":"Deelee (Golden Girl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt was her look. Direct, sure of itself, not asking anything of me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNone of the gold in this painting is paint. It is real gold leaf, laid onto the canvas: the elements on her clothing, the hat, and everything behind her. There is no gold in oil paint. Whatever you build with it is a pile of decisions pretending to be something it cannot be, so on this one I stopped asking it to pretend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat I actually wanted was the rest of her. Her breasts and her stomach held my attention longer than anything else in that photograph, and they were what had to be painted. That is where the weeks went.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt ended without a decision. I kept going and at some point everything had fallen into place, organically, with nothing left that wanted changing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInspired by a photograph of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/dutch-deelee\"\u003eDutch Deelee\u003c\/a\u003e. Second of two canvases of Deelee.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBuying it is the easy part\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph this came from was made to be scrolled past. It got three seconds, if that. This canvas took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years and be seen every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrdering it takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and think something. That part is yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout this work\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal oil and gold leaf on canvas. One of a kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMedium\u003c\/strong\u003e — oil and real gold leaf on stretched canvas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e — 80 × 60 cm (height × width)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition\u003c\/strong\u003e — one of one, signed. Not a print and not an edition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSeries\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/painted-idols\"\u003ePainted Idols\u003c\/a\u003e, oil portraits of women who are looked at for three seconds at a time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStudio\u003c\/strong\u003e — Boekel, the Netherlands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eShipping\u003c\/strong\u003e — insured from the Netherlands, certificate of authenticity included\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Willem van der Krieken","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56959507038548,"sku":null,"price":600.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/9406\/6004\/files\/DutchDeelee.jpg?v=1788028100","url":"https:\/\/paintedidols.com\/products\/deelee-golden-girl","provider":"Painted Idols","version":"1.0","type":"link"}