This vibrant and surreal artwork features a figure enveloped in a swirling array of colorful, organic forms. The composition is dominated by bold, undulating shapes in shades of pink, orange, and blue, creating a mesmerizing and dreamlike effect. The figure's back is turned, but their intricate hairstyle draws the viewer's attention. The overall style is highly stylized, with a distinctive use of texture and patterns that evoke a sense of mysticism and transformation. The artwork seems to explore themes of the subconscious and the natural world, inviting the viewer to contemplate the interplay between the physical and the ethereal. ...
Philip Hanson is an artist connected to the Chicago Imagist movement of the 1960s, artists associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago whose arrestingly vibrant and graphic artworks traversed a variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. Throughout his long career, although principally a painter, Philip Hanson has experimented with mezzotint and aquatint, etching and hand-colouring techniques to create rich and layered images. Influenced equally by surrealism, opera and costume, Hanson’s images are dramatic and labyrinthian, both visually and through their incorporation of elaborate constellations of shapes and imagery to communicate internal and externalised emotions spanning love, desire and anguish. ...
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