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🎨 Self-Portrait of Iris with toucans: expresses calm and hidden talent. A return to painting and home. What emotions does this work convey to you? #Art #Iris #Toucans
The artist looks at the viewer, alongside three toucans resting on the branches of what we assume is a landscape of lime green, blue, and yellow tones. The red of the painter’s lips and cheeks matches the flower on the left side of her torso and the beaks of the birds. The simplicity of the self-portrait underscores the feeling of calm in nature. The toucans represent the need to be heard—in beliefs, feelings—as if the author were sending them as emissaries, while also serving as a defense, since she seems to hide or protect herself behind them.
The work coincides with the period when Iris had returned to her mother’s house in the coastal area of southern Mexico after starting her studies in visual arts (From 1991 to 1994, she studied painting at La Esmeralda in Mexico City). It seems she seeks a way to reclaim what she had “renounced”—painting—by linking it with tropical birds—the landscape that symbolizes her family home. Additionally, the toucans speak of talent for the stage; what could have been an indication of the creator’s future experiments in performance art.
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