Amy, Blue by Marlene Dumas
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
National Portrait Gallery, 2011
Naomi by Marlene Dumas
Oil on canvas, 130 x 110 cm
Collection De Heus-Zomer
1995
The Wall by Marlene Dumas
Oil on linen, 180 x 300 cm
I find Marlene Dumas style of art emotive and haunting, yet very intriguing.
Her portrait paintings make me feel that behind these paintings, lays unhappiness. Giving no facial expression leaves me curious about why Marlene communicates that question with her viewers or me. I love that there is mystery here, a story that is waiting to be told. I think she creates a lot of her portraits using oil paint on a canvas surface,
Bloom by Sam Mitchell
Acrylic on perspex, 40 x 30 cm
2013
Tiffany by Sam Mitchell
Acrylic on perspex, 77 x 47 cm
2013
Cloak without dagger by Sam Mitchell
Watercolour on paper, 14.8 x 21 cm
2013
I personally like Sam Mitchell's style of art because it is very unique and also attentive. Portraying child innocence and irreverence that is as unsettling and humorous as it is naive and authoritative. The amount of detail she puts into her work is amazing! I feel that her paintings say a whole lot more than the titles she gives her paintings. Creating majority of her paintings on a perspex surface which is a solid transparent plastic sometimes called acrylic glass made of polymethyl methacrylate.
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