The work frequently has a confined visual space, which gives added emphasis to the depicted figures and objects.
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Despite their realism, Scholten’s images provoke questions and ideas that go far beyond what is depicted in the image.
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A painter who, through some mental defect, sees a circle as a square, will paint a circle if he wants to depict a square.
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Besides a series of smaller paintings, in recent years Ophuis has painted five large canvases depicting a range of violent subject matter.
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Many of Madani’s compositions are constructed as if taken by surveillance mechanisms, or candid cameras, which the figures depicted are conscious of, but ignore.
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The film also depicts a landscape, this time a typical beach scene with sand and sea divided by a prone sunbather, lying almost motionless while people walk by around him.
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This film, which draws its title from the 1980 video series Faces of Death that depicts realistic death scenes, only shows the tapes of the six video’s the series consist of.
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Arab folklore and Islamic teachings depict the jinn as mythological creatures with magical powers who occupy a world next to our own, in which they intervene without restraint.
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Yet the nature of the picture (in contrast to the nature of what is depicted) is compatible with the art space: it is calm, fairly static, and is often labelled ‘contemplative’.
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