Lynette Viadom - Boakye is represented by two of her distinctive lyric
fictive portraits, Cecily Brown with the powerful Boy with Cat.
7.30 pm, 8.30 pm, 9.30 pm — Poetic Tours with Simone Lappert A literary view (in German) on
the fictive portraits by Lynette Yiadom - Boakye that show us new linguistic ways of encountering paintings that are full of poetry.
She is best known for
her fictive portraits drawn from memory, imagination, and the history of European Painting.
Not exact matches
These
portraits - actually reproductions of drawings made by a street artist outside the Uffizi Gallery - are but
fictive representations, mere signs of individuals with no pretense of naturalism or referential necessity.
Distinct from the symbolic
portraits comprising her Counterforms series, in this new work Souders taps into the burlesque of humanity, depicting characters that blur the line between biographical and
fictive.