Her decadent compositions of Baroque excess fill the visual field with
photorealistic depictions of modern still life elements, alluding to her sustained interest in the work of Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Reubens, and other Old Masters.
«WOMEN Words» is a clarion call, far more radical and revealing than Tompkins» better known earlier works also on display: her Cunt paintings and Fuck series, enlarged
photorealistic depictions of sex in acrylic.
For the most part, different parts of the human anatomy are presented in a simplified, not - terribly - realistic manner, and I am glad for this — if I had to operate on
a photorealistic depiction of human intestines, I don't think I would be able to stomach it.
Of course, art is subjective, and a field of static (like a Jackson Pollock painting) can be interpreted as a pornographic image if one is so inclined, but
a photorealistic depiction will not arise by chance.
Not exact matches
The resultant paintings are both
photorealistic and abstract — exact painterly
depictions of utterly ambiguous subjects.