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"Fools Rushing in" Contemporary Mixed-Media Collage

1990s

Mixed media can be approached as an alchemy of materials, textures, collages, and assemblages. Judy Pike explores this approach in this portrait. The female figure is seated on a co...

Upon initial observation, we are immediately drawn to the palpable energy – an energy reminiscent of some evocative paintings of Egon Schiele's figurative art, despite the stark styl...

This reproduction of Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase" by artist N. Schultz is intriguing due to the depth of the required study and the various stages of refinement that preceded its creation. This is a work using a variety of media. Appearing as a painting, it is almost a sculpture, using pieces of straw and thin wood grouped together and then painted. Studying the painting, beyond the immense amount of research that must have gone into it, reveals another captivating aspect: the subject itself. It is one of Marcel Duchamp's most emblematic works, embodying elements of two crucial movements in the history of art. This was best expressed by Duchamp himself in 1912 when he declared: "I felt more Cubist than Futurist in this abstraction of a nude descending a staircase: the general aspect and the brownish chromatism of the painting are Cubist, even if the treatment of the movement has some Futurist overtones." The nude has always served as a coded representation meeting precise criteria. However, in this context, it is not posed statically but represents almost repeated movements like an open fan, and in relief, thus departing from the classical code of the nude where everything is immediate and requires no keys to interpret the scene. The main silhouette can be seen on the right-hand edge of the figure. And on the left, a multiplication of the same figure descending the staircase. It's extraordinary that the artist has succeeded in imitating this painting, creating a field of observation that rises into a third dimension. Duchamp said of his initial painting...

This original mold, created by Beckford Young for one of his lithograph series, is exceptional. This piece contains a network of reliefs, hollows, and edges, each detailing the resul...

Contemporary abstract painting by Houston, TX artist Tra' Slaughter. The painting features two amorphous circles balanced on each other set against a light yellow background. Signed,...

Contemporary abstract painting by Houston, TX artist Tra' Slaughter. The painting features a variety of expressive swatches of color in orange, blue, green, and pink set against a wi...

Gabrielle Benot (Latvian, born 1978) "Big Rubber" 2024 Acrylic paint, Rice paper, Resin, Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher bars The artist signed the bottom right of the painting. "Big...