Phoenix — Dallae Bae

The female nude is entwined among birds of paradise, pomegranates, and beguiling blooms: softly curved contours that swell in an exuberant splendor of color, a divested figure painted with Asia flora and fauna. Its abdication to painting allows it to become a part of the composition as a whole, subordinated to the arabesques to the point that it becomes one of them. The combination of nude photography with traditional Korean painting has become an overarching topic for Dallae Bae, painter from Korea. Her discovery of Veruschka was a crucial experience. Born in 1939 as Vera, Gräfin von