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Tymon de Laat - Zapoteca
Tymon de Laat - Zapoteca - close up
Tymon de Laat - Zapoteca - close up
Tymon de Laat - Zapoteca - progress
Tymon de Laat - Zapoteca - progress
Tymon de Laat - Zapoteca
Tymon de Laat - Zapoteca - black and white

10 meter x 12 meter.
Spray paint on wall.
Plein 1969 Heeswijk-Dinther NL.
Tymon de Laat 2019.

Mural made at the library of Bernheze for the Bernhezer kunstkring. This is the third wall made for my art route in Bernheze so far.
The girl you see painted is based on a photo I took earlier that year in Oaxaca, Mexico during a local festival named fiesta de las piñas.

The portrait is painted in full colour whilst using the colours as a grey scale value to match a realistic image when transferred to black and white. This way I know the use of brightness and saturation of the image is in balance. You could also see it as a metaphor to “how is your outlook on society”. Do you see humanity as black/white or is the world richer when you embrace the full spectrum”?

 

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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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