Description
‘Fame’ by Morgan Booth
Artist: Morgan Booth
Title: ‘Fame’
Medium: Oil, acrylic, and metallic paint on panel
Dimensions: 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2024
About the Artwork:
This piece is inspired by James Carroll Beckwith’s 1878 painting Fame. Beckwith’s original artwork features a skull adorned with a laurel wreath, painted in dark and muted hues, symbolizing both the inevitability of death and the pursuit of glory. The skull serves as a stark reminder of mortality, while the laurel wreath, a traditional symbol of victory, underscores the fleeting nature of human achievements.
In my reinterpretation, I bring vivid, contrasting colors and shining metallic gold paints in a pop aesthetic to this classic memento mori theme, offering a commentary on the timelessness of the human desire for fame and the ephemeral nature of recognition in contemporary society. – Morgan Booth
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Morgan Booth is an established Pop Figurative artist based in Toronto, Canada. Her signature blue figure oil paintings use surreal color choices and figures to explore concepts of identity and discovery of self. Playing with the perceptual experience and physical response to color, Booth uses blue tones to evoke feelings of calmness and contemplation, while using the intensity of warm colors as an emotional contrast.
Selected exhibitions include WOW x WOW Gallery, J/M Gallery in London, Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, and Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia. Booth’s works are part of private collections in Canada, the United States, England, and Australia.