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Allison Schulnik — Small Clown Head
Allison Schulnik

Small Clown Head

A small, haunting clown face emerges from thick, heavily worked oil paint, its features rendered with Schulnik's signature expressionistic brushwork and lush, tactile impasto. The intimate scale of the work intensifies the emotional weight of the subject, balancing a sense of melancholy with an almost childlike tenderness. Rich, layered colors blend and collide across the surface, reflecting Schulnik's background in animation and her fascination with figures that exist between the whimsical and the deeply unsettling.

Medium
oil on canvas, laid on wood panel

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September 17, 2015

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Allison Schulnik, Small Clown Head

A small, haunting clown face emerges from thick, heavily worked oil paint, its features rendered with Schulnik's signature expressionistic brushwork and lush, tactile impasto. The intimate scale of the work intensifies the emotional weight of the subject, balancing a sense of melancholy with an almost childlike tenderness. Rich, layered colors blend and collide across the surface, reflecting Schulnik's background in animation and her fascination with figures that exist between the whimsical and the deeply unsettling.

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

Related themes

Dark Mood, Clown Subject, Portrait Format, Figurative Painting, Grotesque Aesthetic, Expressionism, Portraiture, Contemporary Artist, Outsider Art, Muted Tones, American Artist, Dark Whimsy, Figure Painting, Female Artist, Warm Tones, Whimsical Mood, Neo-Expressionism, Oil on Canvas, Textured Impasto

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