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Tymon de Laat - Chica Zapoteca - close up

80 cm x 100 cm.
Acrylic and marker on linen canvas.
Rotterdam, NL
Tymon de Laat 2019.
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Portrait based on a photo taken in Oaxaxa Mexico region of and indigenous girl dressed up in traditional gear during fiesta de las piñas.

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4 oktober 2019

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De Laat started painting murals and canvases, often based on his own photographs of the people he met during his travels. He exaggerates the natural lines in their faces, and fills the spaces that appear between those swirling lines with swaths of vivid color. The linework and color palette he applies in that way, are a means of translating his memories of Latin America to visual imagery. The food, the architecture, the clothes, and particularly his respect for the culture of indigenous peoples; it’s all in there, as de Laat transitions it over to enliven drab Western concrete.

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