Marlene Dumas
South African painter and draftsperson · South Africa · Artists · Born 1953 · age 73
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Something wrong?Marlene Dumas is a South African artist and painter based in the Netherlands.
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, Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last.
” No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of the pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.
I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed
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Alain de BottonAlso in The Future Is Now! (2011)
Liane BalabanAlso in The Future Is Now! (2011)
Richard DawkinsAlso in The Future Is Now! (2011)
Mona HatoumBoth received Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts
Giuseppe PenoneBoth received Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts
Piet ZwartBoth received David RöellprijsFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.