Pegge Hopper

Here is a painting by Pegge Hopper, featuring a Polynesian woman seated in profile on the floor.  She wears a modest garment which covers all but her head, hands, and part of a foot.  The artist's  knowledge of the figure, and her ability to draw it convincingly, enable her to make us aware of the body underneath and all of its articulations, using nothing more than a simple, flat, colored shape.

Pegge Hopper's expertise at drawing is also responsible for the capture of the fleeting motions made by the arms and hands.  The woman reaches back to separate her hair from her neck and fans some air in to cool herself.  It is a familiar, everyday gesture, feminine and graceful.

The colors, however, do not result from fine draftsmanship.  They come from somewhere that, unfortunately for me, I have never been..  The Isles of the Blessed, Intuition, Paradise, the Albert King color system, I don't know where it is, but Pegge Hopper does.
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