Thursday, March 29, 2007

Me Clutching My Doll



Me Clutching My Doll was painting using a black and white photograph of the artist as a child three years of age. The child is larger than life-size, standing resolutely in a suburban landscape blurred to the point of abstraction, and she holds her doll protectively. Beneath the scene a decorative strip is patterned with dark colored flowers. This painting like Neighborhood Girl pays homage, in this case to Richard Diebenkorn, the great 20th century Californian.

As with Neighborhood Girl, the colors are inventions of the artist. Warm and cool colors rake across the somewhat abstracted, iconic child's face. She stands near the artist's childhood home: a bright yellow stroke of light leading off to the upper right makes a path to what was the artist's house.

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