ArtThat Now: “Faces in the Crowd” @ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
byBy juxtaposing classic and contemporary works, the exhibition underscores the genre’s enduring relevance and its ability to provoke wonder in the ordinary.
By juxtaposing classic and contemporary works, the exhibition underscores the genre’s enduring relevance and its ability to provoke wonder in the ordinary.
Often featuring minimal palettes of pastel colors, the introspective works meld relatable feelings of anxiety, hesitation, and fear with dreamlike inventions.
Each gif is rendered largely in pastels and captures simple movements: a record spinning on a turntable, rain falling outside a window, and butterflies hovering around hydrangeas.
Chicago-based Illustrator Diana Sudyka uses vintage stamps from Europe as the starting point for fanciful paintings created using gouache, ink, and watercolor.