Herm 2
2016
- Medium
- oil on canvas on plywood
- Measurements
- 96.2 × 38.7 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Portland, Maine, United States
- Inscription
- inscribed in pencil on reverse l.l.: Notes: / oil paint w/wax medium / (dot) (in a rectangle bisected by two horizontal lines) (upward arrow) Guerra urethane / gesso
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.c.: 2016 / SASCHA BRAUNIG - Accession Number
- 2016.693
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation Patrons, 2016
© Sascha Braunig - 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
- Subjects (specific)
- anthropomorphic curves (geometric figures) figure-derived form attributes pink (colour) repetition (artistic concept) simplicity (artistic concept)
- Movements
- Contemporary (style of art)
