The immortal destiny of women
TEACHING, 2014 - Ink and acrylic on Arches - 66 x 52 cm
Jane Gemayel, in her painting entitled "Teaching", reminds us of the path necessary for a woman to blossom and take flight.
Once again, Jane has chosen to put women in the spotlight in her work. And how could she not?
Women's rights are constantly being trampled and questioned. It is not a lie to say that nothing seems to be taken for granted and that every day is a new struggle.
Simone de Beauvoir already said: " Women are not victims of any mysterious fate: we must not conclude that their ovaries condemn them to live forever on their knees ”.
The path that Jane tells us through her work "Teaching" reflects a story. It is the story of a never-ending quest. The painting, divided into two distinct parts by by the clever grouping of its figures, follows a curved line filled with voluptuousness.
To the left of the painting, a group of young women huddled together look towards another woman at the other end. Dressed in floral motifs, the only colorful touch on the canvas, she seems to be walking on a thread that carries her, shapes her.
Who then are these young girls below who look at her with a mixture of admiration and modesty ? This element leaves us dreaming. Why is the development of women always seen with restraint, sometimes even with a certain form of impertinence ?
Alongside with society, women have often been compared to flowers in art and literature and have become an entity in their own right : the theme of the flower-woman.
The mother, the mistress, the lover, the wife, the daughter, eternally compared to beauty, to freshness. A temporal and transient beauty according to men.
But can women be reduced to this role ?
This is what Jane shows us : the woman rises, yes, but to go where ? This gives a taste of un unfinished journey, of a never ending road. The woman metamorphoses, matures, takes off in life. She evolves, but this is not an end in itself, no, it is only the beginning of a whole life. A sweet, fighting and eternal life.