Marlene DumasMarlene Dumas

ARTE344Rachel Noteboom

Sarah OrtinauLiz Gardona

•South African/Dutch Painter

• Is teaching college level art students in

Amsterdam

•Duality of her identity

•She attended college- then worked

•Oil, ink, acrylic, photography and appropriation art.

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Materials

*paintings, collages, drawings, prints installations

*Dumas paints from personal photographs

Marlene Dumas, The Painter, 1994, oil on canvas, 79 x 39-1/4 in., The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Mostly oil on canvasand ink on paper

IdeologyReceived ideas

of identity?

“The ambiguity of representation in her paintings and drawings is ultimately a political act, enticing the viewer into an awareness of his or her role in the assignation of meaning to faces, bodies, groups, and figures.” -Rebecca Morse [MOCA Assistant Curator]

“The ambiguity of representation in her paintings and drawings is ultimately a political act, enticing the viewer into an awareness of his or her role in the assignation of meaning to faces, bodies, groups, and figures.” -Rebecca Morse [MOCA Assistant Curator]

Marlene Dumas, Barbie, the Original, 1997, Lithography, 66 x 50 cm

•Physical reality of human body

•Psychological value

•Removed from context

Marlene Dumas, The Blindfolded Man, 2007,Oil on canvas, 39-3/8 x 35-7/16 in.

Influences

•Diane Arbus’s photography-complexities of the human form

Diane Arbus, Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, New York City, 1962, Photograph

• Mother’s death (weeping women)

• Uses photographs of her daughter

Changes Over the Years•During the 90’s her work as featured images of Amsterdam and interdisciplinary projects

•She also now does multiples of portraits.

•She has dabbled in photography

Marlene Dumas, Waterproof Mascara, 2008, Öl auf Leinwand, 100 x 90 cm

Critics•her art is in many international museums.

•considered a European artist, but wishes to be

classified as an South African Artist. Stating,

“Someone once remarked that I could not be a

South African Artist and a Dutch artist, that I could not

have it both ways. I don’t want it both ways, I want it

more ways.”Marlene Dumas, Moshekwa, 2006, Öl auf Leinwnad, 130 x 110 cm

Her legacy

• Her legacy is being a portrait/figurative artist

•She is also known as an one of Amsterdam’s top artist

•She has won countless awards internationally, and is featured in many museums

Video:http://youtu.be/9oJGwiEoj84

Marlene Dumas, Mamma Roma, 2012, o/c, 30 x 24 cm