cute but unemployed cartoon figure

cute but unemployed cartoon figure, 2020

Acrylic on canvas, 65 × 90 cm (25 ⅝ × 35 ⅜ in). Painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*).

Against a flat red ground that covers the whole surface, a single upright figure rises through the centre. Its head, in the upper area, turns to the left and opens a long jaw showing a row of white triangular teeth. Fanning strokes of black, green, blue and yellow spread from the top of the head. The torso is built from overlapping rounded ovals in grey green, olive, white and black, edged with blue and yellow. Two legs descend to the lower edge, and a limb on the right ends in green and yellow lobes. A black brush mark sits in the top left corner.

The red ground is a single flat layer from end to end, leaving nothing to fill the space around the figure. In the middle a single-coloured field and a creature standing upon it. The unemployment of the title matches precisely this emptiness, a figure with no role in a scene with no set.

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