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Tuesday, February 22. Wong??s “In The Mood for Love.” (France/Honk Kong, 2000). 7 P.M. Harvard Film Archive. Tickets $8; students and seniors $6 Tickets at the Harvard Film Archive...
...Wong??s process for creating her paintings is unique: she coats 6-by-9 foot sheets of paper with multiple layers of house paint...
...common element in her newer works, Wong chooses to depict many replicas of her own figure in order to represent all of the layers of the self that can be explored. Rather than exclude the viewer from the artist, Wong??s technique manages to draw in the public and encourages them to empathize with her experiences through her work...
Throughout Wong??s career, her paintings have changed to reflect the way she has evolved as a person. Her earliest works depict dolls configured in various positions, a focus Wong attributes to her too-brief childhood...
Later paintings spotlighted herself, naked except for a ribbon hanging around her neck, which was representative of her “obsession with winning.” Now, Wong??s paintings are “fun, happy, probably less formal than before,” as she describes them, often featuring multiple versions of herself in paradise...