Monad
2014
- Medium
- oil on canvas on plywood
- Measurements
- 64.0 × 49.1 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Portland, Maine, United States
- Inscription
- inscribed in pencil on reverse l.c.r.: MONAD / 2014 / SASCHA BRAUNIG
- Accession Number
- 2015.387
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Suzanne Dawbarn Bequest, 2015
© Sascha Braunig
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Painted in luminous colours, the dreamlike scenes of Sascha Braunig’s works are informed by the legacies of Op art and Surrealism with their graphic lines and otherworldly figures. The works Monad, Saccades and Troll use the conventions of portraiture as a starting point for the creation of strange, humanoid figures the artist refers to as ‘Ur-characters’ or ‘blanks’. Herm 2 features owing folds of pink and brown that loosely suggest the form of a human body. Braunig paints from observation of small models, which she fashions from clay, sometimes drapes with cloth and sequins and then illuminates with dramatically coloured lighting.
- Subjects (general)
- Abstract Art Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- anthropomorphic busts (general, figures) figure-derived form attributes grids (layout features) linear forms simplicity (artistic concept)
- Movements
- Contemporary (style of art)
