Ingrid Grillmayr

Abstract oil painting dominated by grey and black storm-like brushwork, with a large weathered sculpted head at the top, a small pale nude figure with a red vertical line below it, and a cluster of huddled figures to the lower right.

Buonarroti's Wrath

2010 · Oil on canvas · 147.9 × 200 cm

I built this one around a huge sculpted head near the top, the kind of face that looks half worn away by weather, and let the whole canvas turn to storm around it. A small pale figure hangs in the middle with a single thin line of red running down, and off to the side a knot of bodies presses together like they are trying to stay upright in the wind. The title is a play on Michelangelo's own name, Buonarroti, because that head felt like it belonged to him, furious and cracking apart.

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