Marlene Dumas (1953)
Painter, Graphic artist, Draftsman
Marlene DUMAS (Cape Town 1953)
painter, draftsman, collagist, sculptor, author, conceptual artist, academy teacher
Education
1972-1975 University of Cape Town
1976-1978 Studios '63 (Haarlem)
1979-1980 University of Amsterdam (Psychology)
Biography
She studied painting at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in the 1970s, where she came into contact with art theory and conceptual art. However, she was most influenced by photography, especially the work of Diane Arbus. When she received a scholarship to study at the Dutch artists' institute Ateliers '63, Dumas moved to Amsterdam in 1976, where she still lives and works. During these formative years, Dumas made collages, combined with cropped photos, text and drawings. Marlene Dumas lived with artist Jan Andriesse until his death in August 2021.
Dumas' style leans towards expressionism and conceptual art. Her paintings and watercolors are strongly erotically inspired and are even called pornographic by some. Since Dumas mainly uses photographic sources, she has torn a large archive of self-shot snapshots, Polaroid photos and thousands of photos from magazines and newspapers. However, her paintings are never a literal representation of the photos: for example, she crops the image and uses only a detail of the photo or she uses a different color palette. Her characteristic color palette is gray, blue and red.
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