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Dana Schutz — Black Tulips
Dana Schutz

Black Tulips

Dana Schutz's *Black Tulips* is a dynamic oil on canvas that showcases the artist's signature fractured, expressionistic style, rendering the floral subject in bold, agitated brushstrokes that feel simultaneously alive and destabilized. The tulips are depicted with a raw, almost violent energy, their forms dissolving and rebuilding across the canvas in a riot of compressed color and gestural mark-making. Schutz transforms a traditional still-life subject into something psychologically charged, blurring the line between beauty and distortion.

Medium
oil on canvas

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

May 17, 2013

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Dana Schutz, Black Tulips

Dana Schutz's *Black Tulips* is a dynamic oil on canvas that showcases the artist's signature fractured, expressionistic style, rendering the floral subject in bold, agitated brushstrokes that feel simultaneously alive and destabilized. The tulips are depicted with a raw, almost violent energy, their forms dissolving and rebuilding across the canvas in a riot of compressed color and gestural mark-making. Schutz transforms a traditional still-life subject into something psychologically charged, blurring the line between beauty and distortion.

Medium
oil on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Dynamic Composition, Floral Subject, Bold Colors, Vibrant Mood, Gestural Brushwork, Figurative Expressionism, Contemporary Artist, American Artist, 21st Century, Female Artist, Oil on Canvas

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