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This whimsical artwork features a child-like drawing style with vibrant colors and playful, hand-drawn elements. The composition centers around a question posed in large text, "Why are buying a house?", suggesting a thoughtful examination of the motivations and considerations behind home ownership. The visual elements include stylized plants, shapes, and symbols that appear to be questioning or challenging the notion of purchasing a house. The overall style conveys a sense of innocence and curiosity, inviting the viewer to consider the complexities and perspectives surrounding this societal expectation. This artwork likely aims to provoke reflection on the reasons and assumptions underlying home-buying decisions. ...
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Lily Van Der Stokker
B.1954, Dutchborn in Den Bosch, The Netherlands, in 1954. She lives and works between Amsterdam and New York. In their immediate delivery, van der Stokker’s works beckon happy-go-lucky intonations in their fanciful, ‘feminine’, curlicued and flower- powered familiarity. Their formal bubbled, blobby, and loopy approachable techniques may recall the doodlings more traditionally relegated to the notebook margins of a teenage girl, while the textual inclusions create dichotomies that illuminate more cutting messages and comment upon more condemning realities. lily van der Stokker presents us with works that require the viewer to consider the implications of ‘Kissy, Kissy’ but also of ‘no improvement / no progress’. As Roberta Smith noted in 1990, “The messages conveyed in this terminally cheerful manner usually have a double edge.” ...