1994
201.0 x 100.0 cm
玛琳·杜马（Marlene Dumas，生于1953年）是一位南非画家，以其充满情感张力的肖像画而闻名，作品深入探讨种族、性、身份与脆弱性等主题。她是当代浪漫主义艺术的领军人物。
Although based on a snapshot of Dumas’s daughter finger painting on a hot summer day, the child in The Painter is far removed from the little girl in the photograph. Dumas intentionally uses an aesthetic of the indistinct; the thinly painted background and the unevenly colored figure—sketchy in part and incomplete at the feet—reveal the artist’s fascination with the expressive qualities of non finito. The abstract, painterly characteristics of the work, as well as its generalizing title, also serve to displace the subject from any real-life context into an allegorical realm. As such, The Painter speaks to the almost primal urge to leave creative marks on the world.
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