
Artists and climate action; US National Gallery of Art’s women artists fund; Paula Modersohn-Becker
The Week in Art
A Woman With a Baby in a Portrait?
I love the way she applies paint, there's an extraordinary solidity about the structure of the painting. Yet at the same time that tenderness and the tenderness is really felt up close I think in these lovely brushwork. She has a really interesting relationship with motherhood, with her depictions of infants and so on. Again she's a woman striving to be a modern painter in this time, she's doing things which are very unconventional. And also it's almost like she's almost trying all the time to think about how to break up her technique to make it modern, I think.
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