Artwork Title: Self Portrait in Long Striped Sweater

Self Portrait in Long Striped Sweater, 1990

Louisa Matthíasdóttir

...Painter John Yau in the exhibition catalogue writes: In the early 1980s, Louisa Matthiasdottir told the poet Mark Strand, “The reason I paint is because I want to paint what I see. But to paint what I see, I must build from color.” Of course, that wasn’t the end of it. Matthiasdottir, who was famous among her friends for being a person of few words, went on to say, “either a form fits in the painting or it doesn’t. After all, a painting isn’t really a still-life or a landscape, it’s a mere canvas. It can never be real life. It must be a painting.” Although these sound like the fighting words of a hardcore abstract artist, Matthiasdottir was a realist painter who, like all significant artists working in this mode, reinvented it. Engaging contradictions lie at the heart of her accomplishment. [http://www.tibordenagy.com/exhibitions/louisa-matthiasdottir?view=slider#2]
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