C U B I S T P A I N T E R
April 5th, 2002 Greensboro Artist's League will present Members Multi-Media Exhibit , among them will be EMMETT the Washington, DC born Cubist Painter, now residing in Greensboro, NC.
The Painter is known for his daring canvases featuring nude/semi-nude women in evocative poses. His style is partly a throw-back to Marcel Duchamp who's more Futurist figures overlapped many times echoing their own reflection of their movements, EMMETT on the otherhand while he uses multiple imagery of the same figure, limits the figures reflection to a select number and often to limbs and bosoms.
Unlike Picasso you may never see two noses/mouth on his figures. EMMETT portrays his subjects faces as accuratlely as he wishes, then plays/experiments with body movements. The Art Deco contour lines of the 1920's help to anchor his subjects, then the powerful African-Based Cubist treament explodes the subject into being. Some flourishes are more Surreal as in his Modern Madonna, and others towards Abstraction.
To see the Artist drafting a new work is akin to a swordsman slashing at an enemy. His enemy as is the enemy of many Artists is obscurity. He dares the world not to notice, not to be gripped by his canvases. Some try to dismiss, some try to see through the sometimes unusual appearance of extra limbs that he sometimes tacks on to his images. But some understand immediately that this is movement he is depicting and not for shock value.
The more unusual a work is, the more unique and sometimes valuable. Also the more identifiable/attributable to an Artist...the easier for collectors and dealers to find.
EMMETT WILLIAMS
EMMETT's Gallery on PixiPort