Marlene Dumas: the Image as Burden
Interesting exhibition at Tate Modern looking at the work of Marlene Dumas which I’d
describe as expressionist portraits.
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I admit at first
look I wasn’t too convinced by these pictures as they looked quite slap dash
but on closer looking the draftsmanship was much more refined. I liked the fact
that the room introductions were quotes by the artist which gave insight into
her working methods.
I didn’t really
connect to them emotionally. I liked the “Black Drawings” sequence which was a
series of heard studies with different degrees of finish and abstraction. I
also liked the picture of the artist’s daughter “The Painter” which is at first
a rather menacing image of a child with what look like bloodied hands however
on reading the commentary she had been painting in the garden!
A lot of the work
was based on found images from photographs and magazines and this technique
reminded me of Sickert!
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