“Не буває тираній, які б не намагалися обмежити мистецтво, бо вони бачать його силу. Тільки мистецтво передає почуття.”

- Володимир Зеленський, Президент України

Kerry James Marshall

(c) Kerry James Marshall
Nude (Spotlight), 2009
, 155.2 x 184.9 x 7.1 cm
acrylic, pvc

With Nude (Spotlight) (2009), he makes reference to Manet’s renowned painting Olympia (1863), which presents a reclining female nude looking straight at the viewer, and a black servant by her side clutching flowers. Nude (Spotlight) evokes this image, but here, the light falls hard and direct, literally like a spotlight, upon the nude woman. She retains the direct eye contact with the viewer, but the servant is noticeably absent.