«In different ways and different periods you see him constantly challenging the orthodoxies
of picturemaking and challenging the idea of signature styles.»
Love of
energetic picturemaking emerging from personal experience: Robert Colescott, Peter Saul and Momma Anderson Ardent
Every image is rooted in a specific moment of attention, and while her work is contemporary in terms of its fragmentation and cultural references, it is perhaps more traditional in its commitment to the most fundamental aspects
of picturemaking: drawing, colour, and texture.
Even in the world of illustration, Rockwell represented the tried and true representational approach to
picturemaking that dominated most American commercial art from the mid-1930s until the mid-1950s.
It is as if Lundqvist is working with the methodology of storytelling and
picturemaking, extracting the moment from the fat of the narrative, and reducing the picture to its most basic essence.