Artist #11: Jim Nutt

The paintings I saw by Jim consisted of many abstracted faces, with our basic facial features replaced by various shapes like triangles and rounded hair. The eyes are not aligned and usually they are viewed from a slight angle. they seem simplistic in their technique; many different colors that are not blended together but rather appear in chunks. I think his work is interesting to view but I would not find any interest in painting faces in this manner. the one shown here exhibits the triangular grey nose and the rounded hair with an extremely tiny eye in the upper right side of the face, a very abstract and almost dog-like interpretation.