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Marlene Dumas Cracking the Whip , 2000 Oil on canvas, 90½ × 23⅝ in. H. Gael Neeson Collection
Dumas chooses to paint from photographs—demonstrating her interest in reworking mediated images—and draws upon her vast archive of source material, which incorporates art historical references, mass media clippings, and personal Polaroids. Based on a pornographic pinup, this painting explores mannerisms of desire and the sexualization of the female body. The figure’s column-like proportions are emphasised by the elongated canvas. With buttocks exposed and her face concealed, her body becomes a screen for the projection of fantasies. —HJ
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