{"id":72289,"date":"2025-05-19T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/helena-1992\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T14:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:37:26","slug":"helena-1992","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/en\/helena-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"Helena (1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"section HeaderBlock \">\n  <header>\n  <h1 class=\"title\"><i> Helena (1992) <\/i><\/h1>    <\/header>      \n  \n  <\/section>\n\n\n\n\n<section class=\"section ContentBlock\" >\n    \n  <div class=\"main mobileFirst\">\n    <div class=\"left \">\n                        <div class=\"mainText\">\n<p>A particularly powerful and somewhat early example of Marlene Dumas\u2019s painterly practice can be seen in her work <em>Helena<\/em> (1992). This intimately scaled portrait of the artist\u2019s daughter as a child vibrates with an intense frequency as the determined look of its subject willfully confronts the viewer. Working in a consciously unorthodox and slightly unnatural palette of greens, ochres, blacks, and blues, Dumas creates an apparition of Helena with an economy of means and a few simple gestures. A flick of her wrist here and there evokes two eyebrows, a tightly pursed pair of lips, and two extremely focused eyes that together convey a forceful skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>Rendered with an almost watery distorted focus on a field of burnt umber, Helena is almost completely present in our world while keeping one foot in the painting itself. 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