Original artwork description:

One of my favourite exercises in the figure drawing class is when the model is asked to switch between two different poses which you have to draw simultaneously, often with an interesting motion effect. In this painting I wanted to capture such sense of movement by breaking down a dancer's graceful fall in one continuous gesture. The effect is almost stroboscopic, reminiscent of Gjon Mili's 'stop motion' photographs capturing a sequence of actions in one picture. But the painting also has similarities with Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, one of my favourite modernist paintings.

Materials used:

Oil

Tags:
#movement #dancer #dancing #falling #moving #motion #human figure #modern dance #dance movement #stroboscopic 

Anatomy of a Fall (2024)

Oil painting 
by Tarja Laine

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Original artwork description
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One of my favourite exercises in the figure drawing class is when the model is asked to switch between two different poses which you have to draw simultaneously, often with an interesting motion effect. In this painting I wanted to capture such sense of movement by breaking down a dancer's graceful fall in one continuous gesture. The effect is almost stroboscopic, reminiscent of Gjon Mili's 'stop motion' photographs capturing a sequence of actions in one picture. But the painting also has similarities with Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, one of my favourite modernist paintings.

Materials used:

Oil

Tags:
#movement #dancer #dancing #falling #moving #motion #human figure #modern dance #dance movement #stroboscopic 
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Tarja Laine

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Originally from Finland, I have been living for more than twenty years in Amsterdam. Here I took a five-year training in classical visual arts at the Wackers Academy of Figurative... Read more

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