JOANNA APLIN

PRESSING ON

2021
Acrylic on Canvas
36" x 36"
2021 Acrylic on Canvas 36" x 36"
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This is the next piece in my series of exploring the human body. Strongly influenced by the cut outs of Henri Matisse made in the late 1940s. I chose this style because the simplified shapes and solid colour carries visual weight and would emphasize the unseen, internal workings in the human form.
Figurative painting of a crouching figure in deep navy blue-black against a pale beige background, the body defined by bold simplified forms and white contour lines conveying quiet determination, displayed in a float frame, by Joanna Aplin, Canadian artist from Owen Sound Ontario.