I really enjoyed reading a blog from The Abbeville Manual of Style, entitled Marlene Dumas at MoMA. The blog really captures the psychological aspects of the painting and explores the artists motives and choices in creating it. Dumas' art, specifically Measuring Your Own Grave, probes deeply into the meaning of a painting and its effects. The blog describes how an epitaph that begins the exhibit epitomizes the artist's belief that painting something entombs it to a degree. Different from most blogs I have read, the blog offers an insightful look into the cognitive ambitions of the artist and her opinion of art as a whole.
The blog entry can be found here: http://www.abbeville.com/blog/?p=2702
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