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Luc Tuymans — drawing for "Ballroom Dancing"
Luc Tuymans

drawing for "Ballroom Dancing"

2005

A spare, haunting depiction rendered in graphite and ink, Tuymans reduces the subject to ghostly, skeletal lines that hover uneasily on the paper's surface. The work carries his signature atmosphere of psychological unease, stripping the implied elegance of ballroom dancing down to something disquieting and ambiguous. Minimal marks suggest figures or movement while simultaneously draining them of vitality, leaving behind a sense of absence rather than presence.

Medium
graphite and ink on paper

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Luc Tuymans, drawing for "Ballroom Dancing", 2005

A spare, haunting depiction rendered in graphite and ink, Tuymans reduces the subject to ghostly, skeletal lines that hover uneasily on the paper's surface. The work carries his signature atmosphere of psychological unease, stripping the implied elegance of ballroom dancing down to something disquieting and ambiguous. Minimal marks suggest figures or movement while simultaneously draining them of vitality, leaving behind a sense of absence rather than presence.

Medium
graphite and ink on paper
Year
2005
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Conceptual Drawing, Graphite And Ink, Unsettling Mood, Belgian Artist, Male Artist, Muted Tones, Contemporary Master, Figurative Art, Late 20th Century, Works on Paper, Postwar Figuration

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