J. Munkhtsetseg;s women always seem to 'shine' from their inside. She is one of the most famous artist of modern Mongolia. The main topic of her work is woman. and lot of herself to going into her heart.
Concentration, for example. the red coloured figure of the paintress is devided in two halves by a line. one a side of her hair is orderly groomed in a married woman's hair dress, but on the other side is fluttering open. Not only does Munkhtsetseg devide 2 worlds by a stroke of the brush, the division is apparent even by the different hairstyles alone. But if one wants to figure out the main cause of the distress the woman in the picture is experiencing, one is rebuffed by her hands crossed within the folds of her garment.
Munkhtsetseg's work contain many symbolic features , but what has attracted most attention is that her women are always cuttingtheir hair. Hair is something growing out of the human body, like an extension of one's personalityb, and the resrective woman in the picture who cutting off part of her own body is the paintress herself. what suffering and greif are those women hiding behind the ' moisture' of their eyes is glistering like a tears.
Munkhtsetseg's works show their creator's body, life, mind, sadness, meditations, and thoughts.
Also here is the information about J. Munhkhtetseg paintress.
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| Ecstasy, series of paintings, 2008/ Ханамж цуврал уран зургууд, 2008 |
Munkhtsetseg Jalkhaajav was born in 1967 in Ulaanbaatar where her early painting studies were dominated by a Soviet art curriculum, which she says was “little more than propaganda.” What she wanted was an education in which the richness and vitality of Mongolian cultural traditions and a modern visual sensibility could be combined to represent both her own psychology and her observations on a rapidly changing society. At the same time, she wanted to make art that possessed “a physical presence, colors that are typically Mongolian, and a geometry to the features that comes from traditional culture. I also wanted a stillness in my art that reflects something of the stoicism of nomadic Mongolian culture.”
Munkhtsetseg Jalkhaajav, as a painter and a woman, believes that Mongolia’s new artistic vision should also heal emotionally and spiritually. This has always been important to her, but not always easy. Some of the challenges she has faced in her healing process are clear in the paintings, works on paper, and soft sculptures that make up the exhibition The Silence of Healing at the Edge of the World. The pain of an emerging democracy and the dislocation of cultural traditions are deeply felt. To address this artists need to make new art to reflect this altered society. Munkhtsetseg’s art does this exceptionally well.
The process of healing only became possible for Munkhtsetseg after her return from Russia, when she witnessed how democracy and freedom of expression were not only altering Mongolian society but also changing individuals’ hopes. Today, she notes, there is refreshing contemporary art that represents true Mongolian aspirations and self-expression and that it is not propaganda. Now that there is freedom to make art in whatever way one desires, social thinking has moved from the collective to the personal.
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information source : That's Ulaanbaatar Magazine
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