Cubistic Nude Study

This oil painting ‘Cubist Nude 02 (2013)  is a study after movement. Lately I was inspired by Marcel Duchamp‘s ‘nu descendant un escalier No 2′. His attempt was all about the stroboscopic depiction of a time lapse. Contrary to this I just like women swinging their hips, nothing fancy. Hence I tried to enforce that feel by big rectangular stroboscope-like beams adjacent to her legs.That’s about the only reference to Duchamp’s work.

First Cubistic Nude

This oil is the next one after Cubistic Nude 01 (2013) I made a month earlier. Cubistic Woman (2011) and Cubistic Woman (2010) I consider to be preliminary studies on my style of cubism. You could see this as an attempt to discovering the eventual forms and ideas. The style always have appealed to me. However, I’m still pondering on how I wanted to treat cubism my way. What I got is a much stronger use of colour than both Duchamp and Picasso, Gris, Braque. Many others I could add to the list but you get my point. A more expressionist view, perhaps?

Unifying Isms

Through my experience with laying complementary contrasting hatched strokes parallel to eachother I got an idea. It’s my sort of contribution to the principles of divisionism. At all costs I wanted to avoid a merky look I do not admire in so many cubist paintings of the first wave. So I placed green and red planes of paint next to eachother in order to create this divisionist effect.  All in all, this search also brought me a unification of a couple of styles I happen to like. Forged together: realism (by means of a correct use of depth, proportions and tonality), expessionism, pointillism and cubism. The search goes on from here. 

 Click here to see a publication of the art work in magazine Articulaction Art Review, issue September 2014.

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Oil on linen (100 x 120 x 2 cm)

Artist: Corné Akkers