Julie Mehretu
Autore di Julie Mehretu : drawing into painting
Sull'Autore
Opere di Julie Mehretu
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Mehretu, Julie
- Sesso
- female
- Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017)
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 13
- Utenti
- 37
- Popolarità
- #390,572
- Voto
- 5.0
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 7
- Preferito da
- 1
Glenn Ligon has described the artist’s work as ‘traversed by history [...] grounded in urgent political and social questions while simultaneously troubling the limits of abstract painting.’[1] In these new paintings, which continue from the ‘Conjured Parts’ series begun in 2015, Mehretu employs a broad spectrum palette to create powerful, animated, complex canvases. Marking a continued departure from her earlier work which focused on a layered language of mapping and architectural detail, these paintings take the immediacy of a news photograph as their starting point. These include images of such recent pivotal junctures as the rallies of independence in Catalonia; the voracious wild fires of California; the violent white supremacy rally and counter rally in Charlottesville, Virginia; the instantaneous outbreak of Muslim ban protests throughout the United States; and the Grenfell Tower fire in London.… (altro)