Vera Gulikers (1991)
Threadingcanvas: In the studio, Maria Bashkirtseff
2020 | puff-ink and flock on canvas | 190 × 200 cm
In her Threading Canvas series, Vera Gulikers focuses on forgotten women artists with a technique that goes against ‘male’ art.
This abstract portrait is of Marie Bashkirtseff, a 19th-century Ukrainian painter, sitting at her easel. Gulikers uses a technique called flocking: the application of small fibres to the surface of a painting to create texture. Traced back to China in 1000 B.C., it’s the perfect contrast to the flat grid format used by 20th-century artists such as Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian.
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