The artist provides the spectator with a combination of a very saturated, juicy orange and a natural and toned down background. This contrast is followed by the opposition of the very neat, heavy splashes and the lightness of a brushstroke which intends to give merely an impression of the figure.
Not only Autobiographical identification but the grace and aesthetics of the female figure motivate the artist to picture women over and over. The lightness of a summer dress, of hair in the wind that remind us of the joy in the simplicity of life…
The woman in the painting is trying to understand what is surrounding her. Reaching for the splashes in the painting that she is standing on. The essence of everything inside of her reality is in question…
