Thursday, November 30, 2006

Oil Self Portrait


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Oil on panel

1 comment:

Andy Hollandbeck said...

This self-portrait and the following figure study are my two favorite. Aside from being well-constructed, I like how you've made the women go off the edge of the page. In the self-portrait, it makes you seem larger than life -- you can't be contained in a simple, single canvas. Also, the angle of the portrait adds to that largeness.

How the woman in the figure study disappears off the edge can be viewed in a few different ways, all fascinating. I like the idea that, even though she is physically laid bare for all the world to see, there is still a large part of her that we don't know because it doesn't fit on the canvas.

All that extra negative space adds to it, too. There is a lot left that can be filled -- does that refer to the woman in the figure or to our understanding of that woman?

Your froggy, bloggy friend,
Andyman