Marlene Dumas(Born.1953) was born in South Africa, and later re-located to the Netherlands to continue her career. While I spend a lot of time producing visual art, it is the most difficult art form for me to comment on. Much of art criticism is speculation in which the viewer is reacting to their own personal feelings, or using celebrated technique ideals to validate those feelings. Regardless, I find her work extremely beautiful, and powerful in a way that is very raw and vulnerable. She is amongst my favorite figure painters. The image below(Measuring Your Own Grave) is also the title of a book of collected works of her's. I received this book as gift for Christmas from my sister. Unlike many art books that are 75% text and 25% art, this particular collection has a lot of images in full color, and is affordable.
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