My favourite painting Saad Eddine Said
Jul 06, 2022
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Charlotte Mullins comments on Three Graces
EHINDE WILEY’S large portraits of black men and women are set against decorative backgrounds that look like wallpaper, the patterns breaking free and curling over their jeans and T-shirts. Meticulously painted faces, clothing and jewellery seem flesh and blood, but the elaborate tendrils flatten the surface, reminding us that this is a two-dimensional image.
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