Dinora Justice
Dinorá Justice is a School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston graduate from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil who currently resides in Massachusetts.
The “Odalisque” paintings are Justice's current body of work. They address conscious and unconscious biases regarding traditional associations of nature with the feminine. The philosophers of the Enlightenment equated men with reason, whereas women and nature were consigned to the realm of the irrational. This idea lives on in the widely used expression “Mother Nature,” which feminizes the environment and gives credence, by way of tradition, to the attitude that both nature and women need to be conquered, domesticated and controlled. Justice's idea is to step back and look at women differently and to weigh the impact of deeply ingrained attitudes toward the female that have ramifications in the realm of ecology. For this, she chose to work with iconic paintings of women by masters such as Matisse and Ingres, from a period in their careers in which they explored a fascination with the exotic Middle East through paintings of “odalisques,” quasi-slave women kept secluded in the harems of upper-class men. In these paintings, she substituted trees and plants for drapery and furniture, and she used traditional marbling techniques to erase specificity through patterns. This work tries to show how feminist issues can potentially strengthen environmentalism because a more egalitarian and just society plays naturally into the understanding that we are part of a vast living organism that seeks equilibrium.
Portrait Seventy-five - after Manet's "Olympia", 2023, oil and acrylic on canvas, 36x48" Sold> Inquire Portrait Seventy-six - after Ingres' "La Grande Odalisque", 2023, oil and acrylic on canvas, 30x40" Sold> Inquire Portrait Fifty-seven - after Matisse's "Odalisque with a Turkish Chair", 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 24x30" Sold> Inquire Portrait Fifty-six, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 72x72" Sold> Inquire Portrait Thirty-eight - after Ingres' "La Grande Odalisque", 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 52x58" Sold> Inquire Portrait Thirty-seven, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 52x58" Sold> Inquire Portrait Fifty-two, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 38x52" Sold> Inquire Portrait Forty-four, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 38x52" Sold> Inquire Portrait Fifty-nine, 2023, oil and acrylic on canvas, 28.5x38.5" Sold> Inquire Portrait Fifty-three, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 20x16"> Inquire Portrait Forty-two, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 16x18" Sold> Inquire Portrait Thirty-two, 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 18x24"> Inquire Portrait Fifty-eight, 2023, oil and acrylic on canvas, 14x11" Sold> Inquire Portrait Fifty-four, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 12x9" Sold> Inquire Portrait Forty-six, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 14x14" Sold> Inquire Portrait Forty-nine, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 9x12" Sold> Inquire Portrait Forty-seven, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 9x12" Sold> Inquire Portrait Twenty-eight, 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 8x16" Sold> Inquire Birds in Flight 22-01, 2022, marbling drawing on handmade paper, 26x31 Sold> Inquire Collage 22-02, 2022, mixed media collage, 9x12" Sold> Inquire Collage 22-01, 2022, mixed media collage, 12x9"> Inquire Portrait Forty-eight, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 9x12" Sold> Inquire Portrait Thirty-five - Olympia with Orchids, 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 14x14" Sold> Inquire Portrait Forty-one - an Imaginary Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 14x14" Sold> Inquire Portrait Forty-Three - after Matisse Cut-Out, 2021, acrylic and oil on canvas, 52x38" Sold> Inquire Portrait Forty-five, after Ingres' La Grande Odalisque (Odalisque with Thistle), 2021, acrylic and oil on canvas, 38x51" Sold> Inquire Portrait Thirty-nine - after Ingres' "La Grande Odalisque", 2021, acrylic and oil on canvas, 18x24" Sold> Inquire Portrait Thirty-three - after Ingres' La Grande Odalisque, 2021, acrylic and oil on canvas, 24x36" Sold> Inquire Portrait Twenty-one - after Manet's Olympia, 2021, acrylic and oil on canvas, 8x12" Sold> Inquire Portrait Forty - after Matisse's "The Dream" 1935, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 19x19" Sold> Inquire Portrait Thirty after Matisse's "Odalisque with Red Culottes", 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 9x12" Sold> Inquire Portrait Twenty-Six after Modigliani's "Maja Desnuda", 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 12x24" Sold> Inquire Portrait Twenty-Nine after Matisse's "The Music", 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 11x14" Sold> Inquire Portrait Twenty-Seven after Matisse's "Reclining Odalisque", 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 8x12" Sold> Inquire Portrait Thirty-One after Manet's "Luncheon on the Grass", 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 16x20" Sold> Inquire Portrait Seventeen - after Ingres' "La Grande Odalisque", 2018, oil and acrylic on canvas, 30x40" Sold> Inquire Portrait Twenty-two after Matisse's "Reclining Odalisque", 2018, oil and acrylic on canvas, 36x50" Sold> Inquire Portrait Twenty-four - after Manet's "Olympia", 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 38x52" Sold> Inquire Portrait Twenty-three - after Matisse's "Reclining Odalisque", 2018, oil and acrylic on canvas, 38x52" Sold> Inquire Portrait Nineteen - after Modigliani's "Reclining Nude 1917", 2018, oil and acrylic on canvas, 14x24" Sold> Inquire Portrait Twenty-five - after Matisse's "Odalisque", 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 18x24" Sold> Inquire Portrait Sixteen - after Matisse's "Seated Odalisque Drawing 1925", 2018, oil and acrylic on canvas, 32x30" Sold> Inquire Portrait Fourteen - after Ingres' "La Grande Odalisque", 2018, oil and acyrlic on canvas, 24x36" Sold> Inquire Portrait Fifteen - after Matisse's "Odalisque with Turkish Chair 1928", 2018, oil and acrylic on canvas, 36x36" Sold> Inquire Collage 18-05 (July 5) after Titian's "Venus of Urbino" and Tarsila do Amaral, 2018, collage, 14x17" Sold> Inquire Collage 18-04 (July 2) after Ingres' "La Grande Odalisque", 2018, collage, 14x17" Sold> Inquire Collage 18-03 - after Matisse's "Yellow Odalisque 1937", 2017, collage, 12x9" Sold> Inquire Collage 18-01 - after Manet's "Olympia", 2018, collage, 9x12" Sold> Inquire Collage 18-02 - after Ingres' "La Grande Odalisque", 2018, collages, 9x12" Sold> Inquire Portrait Ten - after Titian and Giorgione's "Venus of Urbino", 2017, acrylic and oil on canvas, 46x52" Sold> Inquire Portrait Thirteen - after Matisse’s Seated Odalisque, 2018, acrylic and oil on canvas, 32x32" Sold> Inquire Portrait Two - after Ingres "La Grande Odalisque", 2017, acrylic and oil on canvas, 38x52" Sold> Inquire Portrait One - after Ingres' "La Grande Odalisque", 2017, acrylic and oil on canvas, 38x52" Sold> Inquire Portrait Three - after Ingres' "La Grande Odalisque", 2017, acrylic and oil on canvas, 38x52" Sold> Inquire Portrait Five - after Delacroix's "Odalisque", 2017, acrylic and oil on canvas, 38x52"> Inquire Portrait Four - after Matisse's "Reclining Nude", 2017, acrylic and oil on canvas, 38x52" Sold> Inquire Portrait Six - after Delacroix's "Odalisque", 2017, acrylic and oil on canvas, 38x52"> Inquire Portrait Eleven - after Titian and Giorgione’s “Venus of Urbino” 3, 2017, acrylic and oil on canvas, 24x36" Sold> Inquire Portrait Nine - after Titian and Giorgione's “Venus of Urbino” 1, 2017, acrylic and oil on canvas, 40x60" Sold> Inquire Portrait Eleven - After Moreau’s Galatea 1880, 2017, oil and acrylic on canvas, 16x12"> Inquire Collage 12 - after Matisse's Seated Woman 1937, 2017, decorated, found and hand-painted paper on paper, 12x9"> Inquire
Dinora Justice
Dinorá Justice is a School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston graduate from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil who currently resides in Massachusetts.
The “Odalisque” paintings are Justice's current body of work. They address conscious and unconscious biases regarding traditional associations of nature with the feminine. The philosophers of the Enlightenment equated men with reason, whereas women and nature were consigned to the realm of the irrational. This idea lives on in the widely used expression “Mother Nature,” which feminizes the environment and gives credence, by way of tradition, to the attitude that both nature and women need to be conquered, domesticated and controlled. Justice's idea is to step back and look at women differently and to weigh the impact of deeply ingrained attitudes toward the female that have ramifications in the realm of ecology. For this, she chose to work with iconic paintings of women by masters such as Matisse and Ingres, from a period in their careers in which they explored a fascination with the exotic Middle East through paintings of “odalisques,” quasi-slave women kept secluded in the harems of upper-class men. In these paintings, she substituted trees and plants for drapery and furniture, and she used traditional marbling techniques to erase specificity through patterns. This work tries to show how feminist issues can potentially strengthen environmentalism because a more egalitarian and just society plays naturally into the understanding that we are part of a vast living organism that seeks equilibrium.