Hot SummerMikayla
Willem van der Krieken
- Technique
- Oil on stretched canvas
- Size
- 100 × 80 cm, 4 cm deep
- How many
- One of one, there is only this canvas
- Credit
- after a photograph of Mikayla Demaiter
- Signed
- front and back
- Certificate
- included, in my own name
€950
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Painted in Boekel ▪ insured worldwide ▪ unmarked box
She looks back
She looks straight back at whoever is standing in front of the canvas, and she is in no hurry to stop.
Almost everything around her is one purple, put down with the knife and left rough. The bikini is the same colour as the wall behind her, so what stands out is not what she is wearing but her skin and the light in her hair.
It is called Hot Summer. The purple is cool; the look is not.
What do you do with it?
Inspired by a photograph of Mikayla Demaiter (@mikaylademaiter). 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.
