Hope
British artist Jadé Fadojutimi has in her rising career made a fresh and significant contribution to abstract painting. Her expressive and colorful paintings document her daily experience navigating the world of emotions and pursuit of self-knowledge. Hope is an outstanding example of Fadojutimi’s lyrical, spontaneous, and expansive style. Divided in two horizontal registers, the composition resembles a sweeping and fancifully colored landscape. Broad strokes of pink, fluorescent yellow, and gossamer purple, reinforced by sinuous turquoise lines and punctuated by a spectral orb from which aquamarine, neon orange, red, and purple spheres proceed, suggest a crepuscular sky. Alternately densely or loosely layered globules of highlighter green, yellow, orange, white, and purple form hills and ravines traversed by a web of electric blues. The contrast of pearlescent passages and waxy waves of oil bar creates a shimmering effect. Fadojutimi’s titles often consist of poetic phrases or evocative prose. Hope is a distinctly monosyllabic imperative; a simple message for complex times.
Artwork Details
- Title: Hope
- Artist: Jadé Fadojutimi (British, born London 1993)
- Date: 2021
- Medium: Oil, oil sticks and acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions: 86 3/4 in. × 9 ft. 10 1/8 in. (220.3 × 300 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Gift of Tiffany & Co., 2022
- Object Number: 2022.133
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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