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After reading Carol Kino's interesting Times piece this morning on painter Marlene Dumas I came across this snippet on a site that has a lot of great info/pics about her (hosted by postmedia.net):
South African artist Marlene Dumas
has cultivated a unique position within the world of figurative
painting since the early 1980s, focusing on how the human body is
translated into an image.
Dumas does not use models, but instead takes her images from mass media and
popular culture sources, particularly newspapers and television.
According to Dumas "what interested me was to make a statement about peoples' frames of mind and the relationships between them."
Dumas'
pictures impress with their urgent realism--but within their
provocative energy lurk provocative questions about gender, identity,
oppression, sexual and ethnic violence, and the situation of women and
minorities; Dumas is always seeking to initiate new thought processes and critical strategies.
Find more info about Marlene Dumas at: artfacts.net, artnet.com, MOMA.org, the-artists.org, The New Museum, artists-net.de, and Marlene_Dumas: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Jolie van Leeuwen...
