Midnight Bath

Artist Gaia Orion creates transformational visionary art and participates in the world of conscious change with her images.

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Contemporary Sacred Art by Gaia Orion

Midnight Bath - Turkish Bath by Ingres - Beautiful Women in the Nude under a Full Moon - Art by Gaia Orion
Original Oil Painting 24"x24": $2200
For acquiring original art email the artist: gaia(at)artbygaia.com

On the way to making a full time living with my art, our family has been blessed by the success of our hand-dyed and painted clothing business, The Funky Clothesline. I am shocked when I sell our clothes to see how many women have a negative view of the shapes of their bodies. Most of us have round shapes all over and very few look like the overly skinny super models and movie stars. It is only recently in history that the ideal beauty has been depicted as a skinny young girl. For centuries women were represented with generous lines, shapes and volumes as in this image.
This is an interpretation of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres painting “The Turkish Bath” from 1862. I love the playfulness, sensuality and freedom that emanates from these beautiful generous female bodies.

Painting this image also made me think about the 60 We’Moon womyn (social, political, and eco feminists activists, writers, artists, poets and shamans) that lived together in Kvindelandet, Denmark in the 80’s to celebrate their connection with natural living from the land with an earth-based goddess spirituality.