Allison Zuckerman - Encrypted Bather, 2018

To look at this painting is to experience the sensation of simultaneous recognition and overload. At the centre, a female figure — reclining, partly nude, partly composed of elements borrowed from at least four centuries of Western painting — holds her ground amid a field of colliding visual information. Her face, rendered with the volumetric warmth of a Rubens muse, is crowned with a wreath of gold. Around her neck, a jewelled necklace; in her lap, a Cézanne fruit bowl, its g

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