Los Danzantes de Chalma, Fernando Leal, an example of work from the Mexican Muralist Movement, 1922
With strong artistic similarities to Alice Neel in figurative portraiture, Aliza Nisenbaum’s large scale angled figures lead the eye across the composition, and her sharp colors stay fresh, not overworked. Like Neel, Nisenbaum paints small areas of contrasting colors of yellow and purple, pink and green, next to each other to show the variety of skin tones in light and shadow.
“You have to pay close attention to the subtle nuance of every little character in their face, and colour is something that is very contingent. Everyone perceives it differently and it’s a myth that even within a particular race there’s a seamless colour. To me, that’s like a metaphor of how nuanced identity is. We’re very multifaceted in terms of our identities.” – Aliza Nisenbaum
Aliza Nisenbaum’s Portrait of an NHS Worker was painted from a zoom screen in 2020
Aliza Nisenbaum Team Time Storytelling, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Emergency Department, Covid Pandemic, 2020 Oil on canvas 95 x 150 inches
Quotes: I didn’t even want the brush to come between me and the image. [Regarding the white paintings…] If you have size, you have proportion. If you have size and proportion, and if white is a color, than you have a painting. An artist has to start without any conceivable purpose other than curiosity and …
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Today I give you artworks that feature the Thanksgiving-ish color orange. My intention was to post a few, but once I started to collect a few, I saw orange in artworks everywhere! As this post grew, my shifting goals for organization and style became increasingly …
In these drawings Henry Moore describes the aged body. He made a series of drawings of his own hands when he was eighty-one and suffering from ill-health, and he did more of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s gnarled joints. ‘Hands can convey so much’ he said, ‘they can beg or refuse, take or give, be open or clenched, show content …
After posting the Japanese funerary artworks of Haniwa from the 3rd through the 6th centuries, I was curious what other cultures around the world were making for funerary art at that time. First I posted Haniwa, then I posted Roman Catacomb frescoes, and today I have ceramic figurines from ancient China. These ceramic attendants were …
Aliza Nisenbaum’s Labor Portraits
Los Danzantes de Chalma, Fernando Leal, an example of work from the Mexican Muralist Movement, 1922
With strong artistic similarities to Alice Neel in figurative portraiture, Aliza Nisenbaum’s large scale angled figures lead the eye across the composition, and her sharp colors stay fresh, not overworked. Like Neel, Nisenbaum paints small areas of contrasting colors of yellow and purple, pink and green, next to each other to show the variety of skin tones in light and shadow.
Aliza Nisenbaum’s Portrait of an NHS Worker was painted from a zoom screen in 2020
Aliza Nisenbaum Team Time Storytelling, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Emergency Department, Covid Pandemic, 2020 Oil on canvas 95 x 150 inches
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