This is a world-renowned contemporary American female painter, Sharon Spring.
Usually, young artists often have a good family background in addition to their talents, but Sharon is not, her father died when she was very young, I don't know why, all of her father's ** were destroyed, Sharon started her portrait creation in order to paint the father in her memory.
Sharon's mother did not support her to learn painting, but fortunately, her talent was discovered by an art club, and Sharon was sponsored by the club, and the study of painting art began.
Born in Chicago, Sharon went to New York on his own, where he began his painting training at the New York Art Student League and later attended Cornell University.
However, Sharon was not satisfied with the learning environment at Cornell University, and she dropped out of the school.
After leaving school, Sharon still settled in New York, she tried to explore a style of painting that suited her, both figurative realism and abstract tension, and the masters she admired were Caravaggio and Egon Schiller, and it can be seen that her lines have the characteristics of Schiller, slender, extended, seemingly cold and stiff, but also very tense. Sharon's colors were classicist in the early days, and the fabrics of the costumes of the characters in the painting were very retro, with a sense of déjà vu, especially the flower shawl. The style of painting in the later period is somewhat close to Impressionism.
Sharon is particularly concerned about young single mothers, the models in her portraits are all from this group of people, life is hard, emotional loneliness, Sharon is full of curiosity about their current situation, but also has a deep sympathy, she wants to ** those young women behind the independent and strong appearance of the more real inner world.
Sharon's work has a distinct personality and a wealth of emotion, and she paints on a wooden panel, which is more difficult than creating on canvas. After several successful exhibitions, Sharon received a large number of commissions.
Beginning at the turn of the century, Sharon returned to her alma mater, the New York Student League, as a painting teacher, painting her female portraits in addition to teaching.