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"New Orleans Table: Paintings by Melissa Sarat" visual art review
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'Talking Heads' by Melissa Sarat - Indianapolis Art Center |
In the painting that gives title to this show, you see items that
you might find in a New Orleans household during Mardi Gras.
The warm colors
of the depicted fruit and the cool blue backdrop create the kind of
vivid contrasts that are common in Sarat’s work. Such still life
depictions, however, are the exception here (if you equate still
with calm, that is).
In “Talking
Heads” (oil on canvas), there are, well, talking heads -- on
platters -- at eye level. As your eye travels upward, there’s a
perspective shift so that depicted items such as eggs seem to rest
atop the canvas, as if the canvas was a table and you were looking
down at it. But this isn’t the only way Sarat toys with perspective.
In the ominously
titled "Post Tipping Point," a parrot dwarfs the human faces
depicted while peering out accusingly, as if indicting us for our
human-centered complacency.
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Art News - Washington's National Gallery of Art museum will get Soutine painting on loan
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The Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, the country's national art museum. Copied Paintings Plague Vietnam's Museum. More |
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