Pink BikiniDakota
Willem van der Krieken
- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 120 × 80 cm, 2 cm deep
- How many
- One of one, there is only this canvas
- Credit
- after a photograph of Dakota James
- Signed
- front and back
- Certificate
- included, in my own name
€1.150
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In front of it
There is a detail in her face that I saw before I saw anything else, and for a while it was the only thing I could see.
This is also one of the largest canvases I have made, which matters more than it sounds. At full size the angle does something to you that a photograph of it cannot. You have to be in front of it.
What do you do with it?
Inspired by a photograph of Dakota James. What the painting makes of it is my doing, not hers. Part of Painted Idols.
Buying is the easy part
The photograph this came from was made to be forgotten. This canvas was not. It took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years.
Ordering takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and decide something about you. That is the real decision, and it is yours. The ones who own these stop noticing the reaction after about a month, and never stop noticing the painting. Hang it anyway.
There is one of this canvas and there will never be a second. If you have read this far, you are already picturing the wall.
In a room
An impression of Dakota (Pink Bikini) in a room. The room is imagined; the canvas is the real work. It is not a measurement: the size is in the details above.