Name: Becoming
Brand: Anna Sudbina
Price: 22759.0 ZAR
Availability: InStock

Dimensions: 40 x 50 cm

Medium: Acrylic and ink on canvas

Year created: 2023

Unframed

Part of the Abstract Portraits series that looks for the poetry of human experience, both personal and shared. The little ordinary moments of anticipation, hope, annoyance, peace. These works capture a feeling, an emotion superimposed over the brushstrokes leaving you wondering if perhaps this looks familiar. It is not about the physical likeness but about the essence of a human aspect.

The process is just as important as the result. In the words of the artist: "Using a brush makes me focus on figurative detail too much, so I paint with small found objects like plastic clothes tags or pieces of card instead." This introduces an element of chance involved in the independent behaviour of materials, a splash of ink or the unpredictability of mixing colours into wet gesso on the canvas. It is the abstraction of the portrait that gives the space to connect with it and empathise. The meaning is not prescribed.

- Do I look disdainful?
- No!
- You’re impossible! I’m sure I look disdainful.
- Well, what do you want to look disdainful for?
- Well, I thought if I looked bored and disdainful nobody would notice that this is the first ball I’ve ever been to…
(Natasha Rostova, War And Peace, *screenplay)

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