Julie Mehretu’s paintings are large works. They extend far beyond the reach of the human body and in so doing explore the possibilities of immersing the viewer within the paintings. They are not constrained with pictorial representation but do suggest cityscapes, landscapes and futuristic vistas. I feel that there is a link between the deliberate mark making and the experimental drawings of exercise 1. They also resonate with the work of Jackson Pollock which I note is part of the focus of exercise two.

Some examples of Julie Mehretu’s work and paintings are replicated below.

I also found the following extract from an article on a website called “It’s nice that” the URL is https://www.itsnicthat.com/articles/julie-mehretu

“Julie Mehretu’s surges of colour, line and geometric form are pretty awesome. her energetic combinations of painting, drawing and digital layering process reflect many aspects of our physical and virtual environments and yet consistently and engagingly retain their visual abstraction”

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