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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 #stroboscopicAnatomy of a Fall (2024) Oil painting
by Tarja Laine
£1,611.64
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 90 x 90 x 2cm (unframed) / 90 x 90cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
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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
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