Marlene Dumas

 

Marlene Dumas's work is very strange in the way she portrays and expresses her emotion through her work. The sense of depression in some of her paintings aswell as effection all combine as the lack of colour communication and glum focus of some of her portraits, bring a cold chill and sense of sadness through her art.

White Disease

"Jule-die Vrou is a disembodied portrait painting framed in extreme close-up; only the model's eyes and lips are fully rendered attributes of seduction and sexuality. The rest of the painting is obliterated by a corpulent fleshy pink, suggestive of femininity, sin, violence and womanhood. The contrast between representation, and abstraction suggests a psychological disparity, where morality, representation, and social convention are questioned."

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