PoppiesDorothea Tanning in an American artist from Illinois who was heavily influenced by the surrealist and dada movement. She is the wife of the artist Marx Ernst. She is currently living in New York. She has been making work her whole adult life which spans a lengthy 7 decades or more.
Tanning's work reminds me of many abstract expressionists that I like. She uses distinct forms in her work, but then slowly abstracts them so that they become aesthetic figures that evoke emotion instead of a subject matter. Her work has a lot of movement in the visible brushstrokes and very few solid lines. Also, she uses a lot of white mixed into her color. All her colorful forms are cloudy and washed out.
I really admire her painting style. Her wispy forms create a strong atmospheric quality. Her ability to use forms as a very the very first inspirational part of her work is something that I like to thing I include in my own painting.
Tanning's work reminds me of many abstract expressionists that I like. She uses distinct forms in her work, but then slowly abstracts them so that they become aesthetic figures that evoke emotion instead of a subject matter. Her work has a lot of movement in the visible brushstrokes and very few solid lines. Also, she uses a lot of white mixed into her color. All her colorful forms are cloudy and washed out.
I really admire her painting style. Her wispy forms create a strong atmospheric quality. Her ability to use forms as a very the very first inspirational part of her work is something that I like to thing I include in my own painting.
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