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Item Number: 111058
Title: MARLENE DUMAS : “Tronies” : Marlene Dumas and the Old Masters
Author: Krempel, Leon
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783941263208
Description: Düsseldorf: Richter, 2010. 28cm., pbk., 112pp., 95 color plates. Summary: Marlene Dumas, born 1953 in Capetown who then moved to Amsterdam, chiefly devotes herself in her painting to human figuration. She does so mostly by starting with photographic reproductions extracted from books and the print media, often basing them on works from art history. In the publication “Tronies”, i.e., the portrayal of “heads”, Dumas confronts her own art with highlights from 16th and 17th century Flemish/Dutch masters, where her works enter into a dialogue, among others, with works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Anthony van Dyck, Frans Hals, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens and Johannes Vermeer, whose painting Girl with the Pearl Earring” (ca. 1660–70) is probably the best known example of a “tronie”. Similar to the Netherlanders, for whom plumbing the spectrum of human physiognomy and emotional expression was at issue, Dumas evinces the articulation of emotions, as in the works on paper Black Drawings (1991–92), Females (1992–93), Models (1994) or in the faces, e.g., from The Believer (2005) often painted over-life-sized.
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