Dutch Flowers

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Comment by Resident Curator on October 21, 2019 at 2:06pm

Curator’s Comments:

Dutch Flowers came up randomly on the site today, and I was surprised to see it within your portfolio, having previously enjoyed your bold pattern-based, radial designs.  Looking back through your other images, it strikes me that the figurative Dutch Flowers lies somewhere between your very representational human and animal portraits, and mandala-like Ornament series. The figure in this piece has a beautiful graphic contour, and the stark black, white and red shapes contrast each other to create a pleasing visual harmony.  The extreme asymmetrical balance of the composition is also unexpected, creating a distinctive spatial relationship between the bright red elements.   I also appreciate the aesthetic choice to keep the woman’s face light at the center of her white bonnet- she appears to float among her sea of potted flowers.