Fear of the Intellectual Wife
Although best known for her photography, in the early 1980s Alexis Hunter turned to more expressive painterly compositions. Part of Hunter’s ‘Trigger Series’, Fear of the Intellectual Wife was painted quickly from mainly non-visual sources. In the work the figure embodies its own mental state: the huge brain of the clever wife dominates and drowns out the pale grey of her husband’s head. Yet the crimson paint used to represent the woman makes the form of the head look almost like a pregnant womb. It is a humorous representation of the social expectations imposed on men and women, and the impact which they have on our personal relationships. Painted in the 1980s, Fear of the Intellectual Wife is part of her shift from photography to more expressive painterly compositions in the 1980s.
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