Farah Atassi’s creates colorful geometric paintings that blend figurative with abstract art.
Farah Atassi is an artist who uses a bold and colorful style with some hints of folk art, modernism, and cubism. Her work is currently on display at Alpine Rech in New York, where it will be available to visitors until July 26th.
“I do figurative paintings with an abstract painter’s language: the foundation of my work is geometric shapes,” Atassi told in an interview with Consortium Museum, as Creative Boom writes. “From a strictly formal point of view, I acknowledge cubism as a source. I’m obviously not alone in admiring Picasso. His models, wives or mistresses, were also influenced by the desire he had for them.”
“For my part, I try to paint models as objects without the libidinous aspect. I try to make the figures come true but without the pathos. Matter, however, is vibrant: it embraces its own repentance, sometimes its thickened impasto. The painterly substance is what drives emotion.”
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