Medium - Paper , Subject - Portrait , Style - Expressionism , Artwork Type - Watercolor
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Description
This is not a delicate butterfly from the opera. It is a woman with a hat that curves into black ears, with a red stripe across her forehead and a mouth that holds the entire image together. The color flows down her neck like a piece of jewelry that has melted.
Subject: female portrait, head and shoulders. Hat/headwear resembling the silhouette of wings. Viewed slightly from the side, with a sharply defined eye and dark red lips. A figure, not a scene.
Style: contemporary expressive figurative painting. Wet blurring, a black spot against a white surface, controlled drips. A fashionable gesture meets Expressionism; more character and costume than portrait.
From a distance, a black and red spot on a light-colored wall. Up close, droplets, a purple shadow on the face, a yellow flash near the eye, and areas where the background remains clean.
It belongs where a painting is meant to make a statement: a foyer, a bedroom, a wall opposite a mirror. Not as a quiet accent above a couch.
Original.
