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Artworks
Robert Pruitt American, b. 1975
Cry Baby, 2020Conté, charcoal, and coffee wash on paper50 x 38 inches
(127 x 96.5 cm)The figure in Cry Baby sits still and composed, seemingly in quiet contemplation. His calm poise, however, is contradicted by his own portrait being emblazoned on his sweater. This second...The figure in Cry Baby sits still and composed, seemingly in quiet contemplation. His calm poise, however, is contradicted by his own portrait being emblazoned on his sweater. This second face diverges in both its cartoonish rendering style and its tearful emotional expression. The blue ocean color of his teardrops becomes the color of his entire top with the shirt's face possibly betraying the larger figure's own interior world.
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