Two naitives from Guinea 1979

Mariam Aslamazian captured these 'Two natives from Guinea’ in oils with confident brushstrokes and an expressive use of color. Looking at this painting, I can really feel the weight of the paint itself, the way Aslamazian has built up layers to create a rich surface with vivid yellows, oranges, and purples. I bet she mixed up a lot of colors to get those tones! Check out how the artist has used the impasto technique to model the figures, giving them volume. The way she's handled the folds in their clothes makes me wonder if she was thinking about how light falls and creates form. Was she inspired by the Fauves? Maybe she wanted to play with abstraction by flattening certain areas. I always find it so fun to see how artists interpret the world around them. Ultimately, it is a conversation among different minds across time, inspiring each other’s creativity.