"Breath & Death"
‘Breath & Death’ is a personal reflection and self-examination: the artist’s emotional diary in response to the almost simultaneous birth of his daughter and death of his mother (one month to the day apart). Zimmerman paints the people in his life with a psychological intensity that is reminiscent of Edward Munch and his ‘portraits of the soul.’
In ‘The Psychoanalysis of Louis K’ the artist depicts Sigmund Freud behind Louis K and Carl Jung. In dark tones of charcoal and grays with a patch of royal blue, the three achromatic faces are looking out from the canvas, each seeing something different. ‘In Tribute’ Zimmerman portrays a continuation of life, and a warm, intergenerational moment of endearment. ‘Sleeping Lola Huskies’ renders compositional harmony and coloristic contrast of a sleeping baby and
the image of an alert, smiling husky, printed on the baby’s garb.
Douglas Zimmerman’s paintings have a simplified appearance and palette, noticeable outlines and premeditated composition employed to emphasize emotions, connections, and contrast, evocative of the German impressionists, but with Zimmerman’s clearly defined mark and style — he paints his own story.
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